Janvier v Sweeney

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1919
Year1919
CourtCourt of Appeal

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58 cases
  • Khorasandjian v Bush
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 February 1993
    ...Ltd v Halbert and Others (1991), The Times, 29 January. Horner v Horner [1982] Fam 90; [1982] 2 WLR 914; [1982] 2 All ER 495. Janvier v Sweeney [1919] 2 KB 316. Johnson v Walton [1990] FCR Kaye v Robertson (1991) 18 FSR 62. Malone v Lasky [1907] 2 KB 141. Metropolitan Property v Jones [1939......
  • Apotex Fermentation Inc. et al. v. Novopharm Ltd. et al., (1998) 129 Man.R.(2d) 161 (CA)
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Manitoba)
    • 24 June 1998
    ...Bank of Commerce, [1996] 3 S.C.R. 727; 203 N.R. 321; 82 B.C.A.C. 161; 133 W.A.C. 161, refd to. [para. 116]. Janvier v. Sweeney, [1919] 2 K.B. 316 (C.A.), refd to. [para. Hamlyn v. Houston & Co., [1903] 1 K.B. 81 (C.A.), refd to. [para. 117]. Emerald Construction Co. v. Lowthian and othe......
  • Hunter et al. v. Canary Wharf Ltd.; Hunter et al. v. London Docklands Development Corp., (1997) 215 N.R. 1 (HL)
    • Canada
    • 24 April 1997
    ...(1865), 11 H.L.C. 642, refd to. [paras. 70, 96]. Wilkinson v. Downton, [1897] 2 Q.B. 57, refd to. [para. 78]. Janvier v. Sweeney, [1919] 2 K.B. 316, refd to. [para. Copoc et al. v. Chief Constable of the South Yorkshire Police, [1992] 2 All E.R. 65; 131 N.R. 194 (H.L.), refd to. [para. 78].......
  • Sullivan v Boylan and Others (No 2)
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 12 March 2013
    ...(Ireland) Ltd [2008] IEHC 249, [2009] 1 IR 316; Hicks v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire [1992] 2 All ER 65; Janvier v Sweeney [1919] 2 KB 316; Motherwell v Motherwell (1976) 73 DLR (3d) 62; The People (Director of Public Prosecutions) v O'Brien [2012] IECCA 68, (Unrep, CCA, 2/7/2012); T......
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5 books & journal articles
  • WORKPLACE SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN SINGAPORE: THE LEGAL CHALLENGE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1999, December 1999
    • 1 December 1999
    ...This limitation is thought to arise out of cases like Wilkinson v Downton[1897] 2 QB 57, [1895—9] All ER Rep 267 and Janvier v Sweeney[1919] 2 KB 316, [1918—19] All ER Rep 1056. … But as at present advised, I see no reason why a tort of intention should be subject to the rule which excludes......
  • "That Is Not How the Common Law Works": Paths to Tort Liability for Harassment.
    • Canada
    • Ottawa Law Review Vol. 52 No. 1, January 2021
    • 1 January 2021
    ...CA), [1922] 2 WWR 238 [Bielitski]. (39) Wilkinson, supra note 38 at 58. (40) Ibid at 61. (41) Ibid at 59. (42) See Janvier v Sweeney, [1919] 2 KB 316, 88 LJKB 1231 [Janvier], where the court allowed a claim for negligent infliction of mental injury. See also Bielitski, supra note 38, which ......
  • A tort of invasion of privacy in Australia?
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 29 No. 2, August 2005
    • 1 August 2005
    ...113 (Unreported, Gillard J, 7 April 2004) [293]. (211) [2004] 2 AC 406. (212) (1888) 13 App Cas 222 ('Coultas'). (213) Janvier v Sweeney [1919] 2 KB 316. (214) [2004] 2 AC 406, (215) Ibid. (216) [1897] 2 QB 57, 58-9. (217) Ibid 59. (218) Ibid. (219) (1937) 57 CLR 1. (220) Ibid 10 (citations......
  • Tort Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2001, December 2001
    • 1 December 2001
    ...Such physical harm can extend to psychiatric injury or nervous shock, as is illustrated by Wilkinson, or by the case of Janvier v Sweeney[1919] 2 KB 316, both of which were considered by the court in Malcomson. The problem, however, was that the rule in Wilkinson did not extend to mere ment......
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