Maguire v Liverpool Corporation

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1905
Date1905
CourtCourt of Appeal
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7 cases
  • Mavis Smith v The Chief Technical Director and Another
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 6 March 2009
    ...355. To the same effect is the decision of the Privy Council in Municipality of Picton v. Geldert [1893] A.C.524 and also Maguire v. Corporation of Liverpool [1905] 1 K.B.767. 24 An authority has committed misfeasance where it performs a statutory duty or obligation in a negligent manner.......
  • Buckle v Bayswater Road Board
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Halliwell v Johannesburg Municipal Council
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...twenty people were injured on this spot, the Council is not liable, as they have done nothing: see Maguire v Corporation of Liverpool (1905, 1 K.B. 767). The Council can only be liable if it was guilty of negligence in improperly paving the street. There is no evidence of that. Secondly, if......
  • Darius Ryan v The County Council of The County Tipperary, North Riding
    • Ireland
    • King's Bench Division (Ireland)
    • 17 May 1912
    ...T. (N. S.) 495. (6) 68 J. P. 415; 20 T. L. R. 254; 90 L. T. (N. S.) 210. (1) 68 J. P. 415; 20 T. L. R. 254; 90 L. T. (N. S.) 210. (2) [1905] 1 K. B. 767, at p. 781. (1) 2 T. R. 667. (2) [1892] A. C. 345. (3) [1902] 2 I. R. 538. (4) 79 L. T. (N. S.) 495. (5) [1905] 2 I. R. 415, 542. (1) 68 J......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Of Kings and Officers — The Judicial Development of Public Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 33-2, June 2005
    • 1 June 2005
    ...in a manner reminiscent of cases discussing the tort of breach of public duty. For example, in Maguire v Corporation of Liverpool [1905] 1 KB 767, 782–3 it is at least suggested that where a public statutory duty would be enforceable by criminal proceedings then an action will lie at the su......

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