Great Western Ry. Company v Mostyn (Owners of SS.)
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 19 December 1927 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 19 December 1927 |
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B.P. EXPLORATION OPERATING Company Ltd Pursuers (Appellants) against CHEVRON TRANSPORT (SCOTLAND) Defenders (Respondents)
...was negligence, or that the person guilty of neglect was the owner's servant, or proving how the mischief happened…." In Great Western Railway Co v Mostyn (Owners) [1928] AC 57 it was recognised that the Act imposed liability on the owners qua owners. As Lord Shaw of Dunfermline put it, at......
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Workington Harbour & Dock Board v Towerfield
...Court of Appeal acted and your Lordships' House approved their Judgment. 62The next case to reach your Lordships' House was The Mostyn [1928] A.C. 57, but before that case was considered Roche J, as he then was (in Det Forenede Dampskibs Selskab v. Barry Railway Company (1919) (1 Lloyd's L......
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Re Harper v National Coal Board (Intended Action)
...the actual decision of the House. 13 In support of those propositions. I would refer to the speech of Lord Dunedin in Great Western Railway Co. v. Owners of S. S. Mostyn (1926 A. C. at pages 73 and 74 and of Lord MacDermott in Walsh v. Curry (1955) Northeru Ireland Law Reports C. A. 114, an......
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Daniel Jay Dykgraaf v The Split Holdings Ltd
...(Civ. App. No. 3 of 2022). 2 [2020] JMSC Civ 173 at para 39. 3 Lazard Bros & Co. v. Midland Bank Ltd. [1933] AC 289 (HL). 4 The Mostyn [1928] AC 57 5 (2001) BCSC 235 at para 6 See e.g. A Goninan and Co. v. Atlas Steels [2003] NSWSC 956 (24 October 2003), which also includes a helpful histor......
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Maritime Collisions
...776 (BCSC). 129 Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act, 1847 (UK), 10 & 11 Vict, c 27, s 74. 130 Great Western Railway Co v Mostyn (The) , [1928] AC 57 (HL) [ The Mostyn ]. See also Gault et al, above note 9 at 307. 131 Tower Field (Owners) v Workington Harbour and Dock Board (1950), [1951] ......
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Collective irrationality and the doctrine of precedent.
...Dickenson's Arcade Pty Ltd v Tasmania (1974) 130 CLR 177, 188 (Barwick CJ) and Great Western Railway Co v Owners of SS Mostyn; The Mostyn [1928] AC 57, 73-4 (Viscount Dunedin). Cf Jones v Bartlett (2000) 205 CLR 166,224-5 [206] (Gummow and Hayne JJ). (93) See China Ocean Shipping Co Ltd v P......