Kent v Griffiths (No.2)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1999
Year1999
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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  • Sandhar and Another v Department of Transport, Environment and the Regions
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 5 de novembro de 2004
    ...My view that there is no relevant duty of care in the present case also, I think, accords with decisions of this court in cases such as Kent v Griffiths [2001] QB 36 and Watson v British Board of Control [2001] QB 1134. In each of these cases, a duty of care was found to exist where the d......
  • D v East Berkshire Community NHS Trust and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 de julho de 2003
    ...cases to use the striking out procedure, as we shall show when we come to address the second issue. Lord Woolf MR commented on this in Kent v Griffiths [2001] 1 QB 36. He went on to observe at paragraph 38: "In so far as the Osman case [1999] 1 FLR 193 underlined the dangers of a blanket ap......
  • Dwr Cymru Cyfyngedig (Welsh Water) (Appellant v Barratt Homes Ltd (Respondent
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 de março de 2013
    ...a result of a non-actionable breach of statutory duty has been able to bring an action for negligence at common law: see, for example, Kent v Griffiths [2001] QB 36. That, however, was a case where the statutory duty was a wide and general target duty to provide a health service. The obliga......
  • King v Sussex Ambulance NHS Trust
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 5 de julho de 2002
    ...such as this is that the ambulance service owe a duty of care to the members of the public who have called for their help: see Kent v Griffiths and Others [2001] QB 36. This can result in liability for failing to attend to a patient within a reasonable time. The service do not have the opt......
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