Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd (N v) v Western Steamship Company Ltd The Empire Jamaica

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1955
Year1955
Date1955
CourtProbate, Divorce and Admiralty Division
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  • Ngan Siong Hing v RHB Bank Bhd
    • Malaysia
    • Court of Appeal (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK LLP
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 January 2021
    ... ... ; [ 2008 ] 4 All ER 159 , HL(E) Western Steamship Co Ltd v NV Koninklijke Rotterdamsche loyd (The Empire Jamaica) [ 1955 ] P 52 ; [ 1955 ] 2 WLR ... It is not about a company through its directors or shareholders being ... part of the business: see para 17 per Lord Lloyd of Berwick (the difference as to the scope of the ... ...
  • Kuwait Airways Corporation (Plaintiff) v Iraqi Airways Company (body Corporate)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 7 April 2000
    ...which a court will hold that the consequences complained of would not have occurred. They suggest that the facts in The Empire Jamaica [1955] P 52 are a striking example of the former type of fact. In that case a collision occurred whilst an uncertificated officer was on watch. Although it ......
  • Re Oliver, inquest into death of Ojo Moyo
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 22 April 2009
    ...rock falls. Even though the injury might be reasonably foreseeable, the doctor is not liable. 128 Similarly, in The Empire Jamaica [1955] 1 All E.R. 452, the owners sent their ship to sea without properly licensed officers. The pilot fell asleep, and a collision occurred. Though the pilot w......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Justifying Exceptions to Proof of Causation in Tort Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 78-5, September 2015
    • 1 September 2015
    ...have a dutyarguable (implicit) application of such a rule, see Phethean-Coles vHubble [2012] EWCA Civ 349.cf The Empire Jamaica [1955] 1 All ER 452.15 So much is uncontroversial (even if it is controversial whether all liability in tort has this structure).There is controversy over whether ......
  • Growth, institutions, and entrepreneurial finance in China: a survey
    • United States
    • Wiley Strategic Change No. 21-3‐4, May 2012
    • 1 May 2012
    ...is, however, on its own resources and human capa-bility that China should mostly count. Let us end with another quotation of Arthur Lewis (1955, p. 52): e extent of a country’s resources is quite obviously a limit on the amount and type of development which it can undergo. It is not the on......
  • Church and the Laity Among Catholics
    • United States
    • Sage ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, The No. 332-1, November 1960
    • 1 November 1960
    ...Con- they are located across the street from flicts in America (Chicago: Henry Regnery each other. In the city of Philadelphia, Co., 1955), pp. 52-53. 56 The social structure of most which is particularly that of the pastor, congregations is mixed, that is, it con- carries an obligation to ......
  • American Mixed Enterprise and Government Responsibility
    • United States
    • Sage Political Research Quarterly No. 24-4, December 1971
    • 1 December 1971
    ...Lending, Guaranteeing, and Insurance Activities, A Report to the Congress, March 1955 (Wash-ington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955), p. 52. 43 Representative Sidney R. Yates, Congressional Record — House, May 31, 1956 (daily tion), p. 8435. 44 See, e.g., John A. Prestro, ......

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