Hambrook v Stokes Brothers

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1925
Year1925
CourtCourt of Appeal
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76 cases
  • Wicks v State Rail Authority of New South Wales Sheehan v State Rail Authority of New South Wales
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 16 June 2010
    ...words used. More particularly, ‘being … put in peril’ is not to be confined to the kind of apprehended casualty which was at issue in Hambrook v Stokes Bros16, where a mother feared a runaway lorry might have injured her child. It is not to be read as confined to the cases discussed by Evat......
  • King v Phillips
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 16 February 1953
    ...point was not dealt with in the Judgment of the Court which was given by Lord Justice MacKinnon. 18 The decision of this Court in Hambrook v. Stokes Brother, reported in 1925 1 King's Bench Division at page 141, was not directly overruled by the House of Lords in Hay or Bourhill v. Young; i......
  • Alcock and Others v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 28 November 1991
    ...regards communication, there is no case in which the law has compensated shock brought about by communication by a third party. In Hambrook v. Stokes Brothers [1925] 1 K.B. 141, indeed, it was said that liability would not arise in such a case and this is surely right. It was so decided in......
  • Chester v Waverley Corporation
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Secondary Victim Claims ' Where Are We Now?
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 12 February 2024
    ...satisfies the Alcock criteria as now interpreted by the Supreme Court in Paul might succeed. Footnotes 1. Hambrook v Stokes Brothers [1925] 1 KB 141; Bourhill v Young [1943] AC 92; Hinz v Berry [1970] 2 QB 40 2. Per Lord Oliverin Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1992] 1 A......
3 books & journal articles
  • Tort Litigation in the Context of Intra‐Familial Abuse
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 61-2, March 1998
    • 1 March 1998
    ...final abrogation in the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1970, s 4: Heuston andBuckley, n 34 above, 340.39 eg Hambrook vStokes [1925] 1 KB 141. The action, which was available for negligent as well asintentional interferences, originally arose under the writ of trespass but later c......
  • PTSD and the Law
    • Ireland
    • Irish Judicial Studies Journal No. 2-20, July 2020
    • 1 July 2020
    ...Coultas (Victoria, Australia, but decided whilst still under 34 Dulieu v White & Sons [1901] 2 KB 669 . 35 Hambrook v Stokes Brothers [1925] 1 KB 141. 36 International Ocean Telegraph Company, Appellant v Charles Saunders 32 Fla. 434 (1893). 37 Robb v Pennsylvania Railroad, May 28, 1965, 58......
  • Tort Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...to secondary victims, initially to cases where the claimant feared not for herself but for another person (Hambrook v Stokes Brothers[1925] 1 KB 141), and then to cases where the claimant witnessed a traumatic event: McLoughlin v O”Brien[1983] 1 AC 410. 22.86 Secondary victim cases by their......

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