Griffin v Pillet

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1926
Date1926
CourtKing's Bench Division
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9 cases
  • O'Brien (A.P.) and Another (A.P.) v Robinson
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 19 February 1973
    ...notice from his tenant of a defect but also if he receives such notice aliunde or if he has knowledge of it: but I observe that in Griffin v. Fillet [1926] 1 K.B. 17, where a lessee gave notice that steps to a dwelling-house needed attention but where the lessee did not know that the steps......
  • Milo Butler & Sons Investment Company Ltd v Monarch Investments Ltd
    • Bahamas
    • Supreme Court (Bahamas)
    • 18 September 1998
    ...The purpose of such a notice is simply to put the landlord on enquiry, per Lord Diplock in O'Brien v. Robinson [1973] A.C. 912. 84 In Griffin v. Fillet [1926] 1 K.B. 17, the notice simply said that the steps required attention. Wright J in determining whether the notice in that case was suf......
  • Dinefwr Borough Council v Elizabeth P.A. Jones
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 June 1987
    ...significance of the knowledge of disrepair obtained by Mr David Thomas on the occasion of his February visit, I add only a reference to Griffin v. Pillet (1926) 1 K.B. 17, and to the statement of Wright J. at page 23, where he says this: "The matter might arise if when doing repairs to a ho......
  • Assaad Mohammed Al Hassani (Plaintiff v Kevin Merrigan (Defendant
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 October 1987
    ...contention very shortly. I accept that a notice of want of repair need not specify the precise nature or degree of want of repair. See Griffin v. Pillet (1926) 1 K.B. 17. If, however, one reads the relevant paragraph of the letter the only matters which could possibly come within the sectio......
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  • Employers' Liability at Common Law: Two Competing Paradigms
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh Law Review No. , May 2008
    • 1 May 2008
    ...damages for physical injury under the general law of contract.2222Summers v Salford Corporation [1943] AC 283; Griffen v Pillett [1926] 1 KB 17. For further discussion of the impact of the trust duty on the contractual remedies of employees, see M Boyle, “Contractual remedies of employees: ......

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