Jones (A Minor) v Wilkins (Wynn and Another, third parties)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date2000
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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8 cases
  • Seamus Brendan Elliott (a minor) by his father and next friend Daniel Elliott v Geoffrey Laverty and Daniel Elliott
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Northern Ireland)
    • 18 January 2006
    ... ... LAVERTY Defendant; DANIEL ELLIOTT Third Party. __________ Higgins J [1] On 9 November ... of a vehicle involved in a collision with another vehicle, which was wholly the fault of the other ... [20] In J ( A Child) v Wilkins and Others 2001 PIQR 179 (P12) the plaintiff was ... joined the mother and the aunt as third parties on the basis that they had been negligent in ... ...
  • Emma Hughes (A child by her aunt and litigation friend Mrs Anne Marie Armstrong) v The Estate of Dayne Joshua Williams, Deceased Louise Emma Williams (Third Party)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 25 April 2012
    ...I will have to express my findings in that respect. 58 In my view, the approach to be adopted is as set out by the Court of Appeal in Jones v Wilkins [2001] R.T.R.19. In that case, the claimant, aged 2 years and 9 months, was on her mother's lap in the front passenger seat of a car. The mot......
  • Louise Emma Williams v The Estate of Dayne Joshua Williams, Deceased
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 April 2013
    ...that Ms Williams acted as many other parents would have done. In this respect, it is worth noting that a similar situation arose in Jones v Wilkins [2001] R.T.R. 19 and the approach taken was similar to that taken by the judge here. In Jones v Wilkins a child was seated on her mother's lap ......
  • Gawler v Raettig
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 3 December 2007
    ...instances of judges of first instance applying the principles and this court has followed them. For instance in J (A child) v Wilkins [2001] PIQR p12 this court, comprising Nourse, Mummery and Keene LJJ, held that the judge could not be faulted for having described himself as being bound by......
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