Northwestern Utilities Ltd v London Guarantee & Accident Company Ltd
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1935 |
| Date | 1935 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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Cosgrove v Ryan
...App. Cas. 430; Manchester Corporation v. Farnworth [1930] A.C. 171 and Northwestern Utilities, Ld. London v. Guarantee and Accident Co. [1936] A.C. 108 not followed. 2. That the question of proving causation did not appear to be affected by either res ipsa loquitur or the principle that a s......
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Read v J. Lyons & Company Ltd
...water (or gas) under pressure through them (Charing Cross Electric Co. v. Hydraulic Power Co. [1914] 3 K.B. 772; Northwestern Utilities Ltd. v. London Guarantee etc. Co. [1936] A.C. p. 108). 10 In ( Howard v. Furness Houlder Argentine Lines Ltd. 41 Commercial Cases 290 at p. 296) Lewis J. h......
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Miller v Jackson
...Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd. [1961] 1 W.L.R. 683; [1961] 2 All E.R. 145. Northwestern Utilities Ltd. v. London Guarantee and Accident Co. Ltd.[1936] A.C. 108, P.C. St. Helen's Smelting Co. v. Tipping (1865) 11 H.L.Cas. 642, H.L.(E.). Thompson-Schwab v. Costaki [1956] 1 W.L.R. 335; [1956] 1 All E......
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The site
...of the tort of negligence generally, is discussed in Chapter 10. 437 Northwestern Utilities Ltd v London Guarantee & Accident Co Ltd [1936] aC 108 at 126–128 (pC). 438 See, eg, Northumbrian Water Ltd v Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd [2013] EWhC 1940 (TCC) at [56]–[57], per hhJ Behrens (airmed [201......
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Mr Fletcher as the Quintessential Nigerian: Could a More In-Depth Analysis of the Rule in Rylands v Fletcher Reveala Uniquely Nigerian Tort?
...was litigated between5Rickards v Lothian [1913] AC 263. See, however, North Western Utilities Ltd vLondon Guarantee and Accident Co Ltd [1936] AC 108; Box v Jubb (1879) 4 Ex D 76;Perry v Kendricks Transport Ltd [1956] 1WLR 85; Prosser v Levy [1955] 1 WLR 1224.6Green v Chelsea Waterworks Co ......
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Rylands v. Fletcher Revitalised
...v. Robert Addie & Sons, Collieries [1934] SC 150. 39 See for example Northwestern Utilities Ltd. v. London Guarantee and Accident Co. [1936] AC 108. 40 Read v. J. Lyons & Co., supra, ffi 23. 41 Attorney General of Canada v. Diamond Weatherproofing Ltd., (1975) 48 DLR (3d) 353. 1999] [Vol. 2......
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Environmental Law
...through pipes (similar to this case), the Court of Appeal (English) held in North Western Utilities v. London Guarantee and Accident Co. (1936) A.C. 108 at 118 that:- “They (defendants) are doing nothing wrongful in carrying the dangerous thing so long as they keep it in their pipes. They c......