Letang v Ottawa Electric Ry. Company
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1926 |
| Year | 1926 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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56 cases
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Baker v T. E. Hopkins & Son Ltd
...defence." 16 Equally unavailing in my judgment is the pleas which is expressed in the words - "volenti non fit injuria." In Letang v. Ottawa Electric Railway Co. 1926 Appeal Cases 725 it was said(at p. 730)" It is quite a mistake to treat volenti non fit injuria as if it were the legal equi......
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Burnett v British Waterways Board
...when the plaintiff freely and voluntarily if with full knowledge of the nature and extent of the risk, impliedly agreed to incur it, see Letang v. Ottawa 1926 A. J. at page 731, and to waive any claim for injury, Nettleship v. Weston 1971 2 Q. B. 691, at page 701. No such agreement could po......
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Raymond Peter Foulkes Claimant v Saint Lucia Air & Sea Ports Authority Defendant [ECSC]
...to incur it". 51 This statement which has been regularly quoted was expressly approved by the Privy Council inLetang v Ottawa Electricity (1926) AC 225 where the facts were similar to those in Osbourne. 52 In theLetang case, an action was brought by the appellant on account of injuries sust......
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Case Note
...the Philosopher's Stone: The Search for a Universal Test for Duty”[2007] Sing JLS 350 at 357–358. 55Letang v Ottawa Electric Railway Co[1926] AC 725 at 731. See R A Buckley, “Occupier's Liability in England and Canada” (2006) 35 Common Law World Review 197 at 204–205. 56 See, generally, Lor......