Meah v McCreamer (No. 2)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1986
Year1986
Date1986
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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9 cases
  • Clunis v Camden and Islington Health Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 5 December 1997
    ...... to strike out the claim brought against it by the plaintiff, Christopher Clunis, as disclosing no cause of action. The defendant's application was dismissed by order of Mr R.B. Mawrey Q.C. sitting ... damages based on a plaintiff's conviction of a criminal offence knowingly committed is Meah v McCreamer (No. 1) [1985] 1 AER 367 . In that case the plaintiff who had suffered a head injury ......
  • Gray v Thames Trains Ltd and another
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 17 June 2009
    ...compensate him for the consequences of his own deliberate criminal act in killing Mr Boultwood. 65 Admittedly, such a claim succeeded in Meah v McCreamer [1985] 1 All ER 367, but Woolf J specifically recorded, at p 371j, that counsel for the defendant had not advanced a public policy argum......
  • Hall v Woolston Hall Leisure Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 May 2000
    ...claim. An example from a different area is provided by ( Hunter v. Butler CA, 19 December 1995, ref. C0003516, unreported). See also Meah v. McCreamer [1985] 1 AER 367; and [1986] 1 AER 943 ( No.2), 951, the relevant passages from which were cited in Clunis v. Camden and Islington Health A......
  • Henderson (a protected party by her Litigation Friend the Official Solicitor) v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 30 October 2020
    ...to pay in damages to Mr Boultwood's dependants and in his claim for his feelings of guilt and remorse. 86. In Meah v McCreamer (No 2)[1986] 1 All ER 943 Woolf J rejected an attempt to recover the damages which the plaintiff had been found liable to pay to two women whom he had subjected to ......
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2 books & journal articles
  • REFORMING ILLEGALITY IN PRIVATE LAW
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2009, December 2009
    • 1 December 2009
    ...Meah v McCreamer[1985] 1 All ER 367; Clunis v Camden and Islington Health Authority[1998] QB 978. 26 See, eg, Meah v McCreamer (No 2)[1986] 1 All ER 943. 27 See, eg, Saunders v Edwards[1987] 1 WLR 1116. 28 See, eg, Thackwell v Barclays Bank plc[1986] 1 All ER 676; Webb v Chief Constable of ......
  • Tort Litigation in the Context of Intra‐Familial Abuse
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 61-2, March 1998
    • 1 March 1998
    ...to the civilpayments he was required to make to his victims on the grounds that such losses were too remote:Meah vMcCreamer (No 2) [1986] 1 All ER 943.95 [1996] 1 FLR 428.96 See R. Denyer, ‘The Abused Child and the Quantum of Damages/Compensation’ [1993] Fam Law297.97 ibid 299, although Den......

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