Lam v Brennan and Borough of Torbay
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1997 |
| Year | 1997 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
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5 cases
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CFC 26 Ltd SHG-SH20 Ltd (Proposed Claimant) v Brown Shipley & Company Ltd and Others
...of statutory duty or common law negligence. 51 The sheet-anchor of Mr Warnock's case is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Lam v Brennan and Borough of Torbay [1997] PIQR P488. In that case, the claimants complained that a local authority had been negligent in granting the planning perm......
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Anchor Hanover Group (incorporating the fully transferred society, Hanover Housing Association) v Arcadis Consulting (UK) Ltd
...closest analogies relied on by the parties are planning and similar public authority cases. 55 In Lam v Brennan and Borough of Torbay [1997] PIQR P488, the Court of Appeal held that no duty of care was owed by a local planning authority to plaintiffs who suffered foreseeable loss as a resul......
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Kane v New Foret DC
...the House of Lords decision in Stovin v Wise [1996] 1AC 923 and the Court of Appeal decision in Lam v Brennan and Borough of Torbay [1997] PIQR P488. 4. Now before us is the appellant's second tier appeal brought by permission of Mantell LJ. The question it raises is whether the circumstanc......
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John Akomaning Houston v Transport for London
...law simply because they have statutory powers or duties. 19 As was said by the Court of Appeal in Lam v Brennan & Borough of Torbay [1997] PIQR P488, which is a Town and Country Planning Act case, that Act did not create a common law duty of care which would render the public authority liab......
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