Mills v Barnsley Metropolitan Council
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1992 |
| Year | 1992 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
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43 cases
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Sarah McArdle v Department of Regional Development
... ... foresight of harm to users of the pavement – see Steyn LJ in Mills v Barnsley Metropolitan Council (unreported 7 February 1992). Steyn LJ ... ...
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Paul Singh v The City of Cardiff Council
...shows a breach of duty. The escape from any apparent circularity was stated, or re-stated, I think, by Steyn L.J. in Mills v Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council [1992] P.I.Q.R. P291 (to which my Lord has already referred) where, in holding that no breach of duty had been established, he p......
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Demetrios Karpasitis v Hertfordshire County Council
...more than the physical surface: Thompson v Hampshire County Council [2004] EWCA Civ 1016 [2005] LGR 467. 25 In Mills v Barnsley MBC [1992] PIQR P291 Steyn LJ stated as follows: “..[I]n drawing the inference of dangerousness in this case, the judge impliedly set a standard which, if genera......
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Colar & Singh v Highways England Company Ltd
...that proposition: “Subparagraph b) in the passage cited from the judgment of Steyn LJ [in Mills v Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council [1992] PIQR 291] reflects the need for the claimant to show that the danger was due to a failure to maintain in the absolute sense explained by Lord Dennin......
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2 firm's commentaries
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Street Equipment
...852 [paragraph 14] 2. Yetkin v Mahmood & London Borough of Newham [2010] EWCA Civ 776 3. Mills v Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council [1992] 1 PIQR P291 4. Lewis v Wandsworth Borough Council [2020] EWHC 3205 (QB) 5. Dean & Chapter of Rochester Cathedral v Debell [2016] EWCA Civ 1094 The co......
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Highways: Expecting The Unexpected
...not endanger pedestrians as they pass and repass along the highway. Importantly, as the Court of Appeal explained in Mills v Barnsley (1992) 1 PIQR 291, this is a principle which is grounded in 'Finally, I add that, in drawing the inference of dangerousness in this case, the judge impliedly......