Jones v Livox Quarries Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
| Judgment Date | 1952 |
| Year | 1952 |
| Date | 1952 |
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...there. It is no answer for him to say that the danger he met was not one which either he or the Post Office had expected. Thus, in Jones v. Livox Quarries Ltd. (1952 2 Queen's Bench 608) this Court had to consider whether a workman who was riding onthe towbar of a tracked vehicle in disobed......
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6 books & journal articles
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The Existence of Contributory Negligence
...he suffered after the defendant stepped in front of his bus in a suicide attempt). 4 Among countless examples, see Jones v Livox Quarries Ltd [1952] 2 QB 608 (CA); Froom v Butcher QB 286 (CA); and Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2000] 1 AC 360 (HL). 5 See Davies v Swan Mo......
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Appendix 1: Apportionment in Frequently Recurring Situations
...NHS Trust [2008] EWCA Civ 1424, [2009] ICR 585 (50 per cent); (7) Lips v Older [2004] EWHC 1686 (QB), [2005] PIQR2 Jones v Livox Quarries Ltd [1952] 2 QB 608 (CA) 615 (Denning 3 This difficulty is not merely speculative. There are ample illustrations available of different judges reaching s......
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A social security perspective of employees’ compensation law in Nigeria
...risks.11 Stapley v Gypsum Mines Ltd (1953) AC 663; Carr v Mercantile Produce Co Ltd (1949) 2 KB 601. In Jones v Livox Quarries Ltd (1952) 1 TLR 1377 at 1383, Denning, L J stated: ‘Although contributory negligence does not depend on a duty of care, it does depend on foreseeability. Just as a......
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Introduction
...the same judge observed that ‘[i] t can now be safely asserted that the doctrine of last opportunity is obsolete’: Jones v Livox Quarries Ltd [1952] 2 QB 608 (CA) 63 See, eg, R Stevens, ‘Should Contributory Fault be Analogue or Digital?’ in A Dyson et al (eds), Defences in Tort (Hart Publi......
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