Norwood v Navan

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1981
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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  • Martin Alphonso Dennis Alphonso Ltd Dennis Alphonso Trading as Dennis Alphonso Car Rentals Ltd APPELLANTS v Deodat Ramnath RESPONDENT
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Court of Appeal (British Virgin Islands)
    • 21 July 1997
    ...of its use in the owner is not sufficient [See Launchbury v Morgans (1973) AC 127 approving Hewitt v Bonvin (1940) 1 KB 188. Also Norwood v Navan (1981) RTR 457 C.A.I. In the Launchbury case, Diplock J said: I think that the true test can best be expressed in these words: was the [servan......
  • Kern Garrett Francis v Peter Alexander Depass
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 5 November 2015
    ...vehicle —“ it must be shown that the driver was using it for the owner's purposes, under delegation of a task or duty. ” (At 135) See: Norwood v Navan [1981] R.T.R. 457. 10 In this case, there was no averment made by the defendant, in his statement of case, that at the material time the veh......
  • O'Donnell v Coffey
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 7 July 2017
    ...Lombard Co. Ltd. [1974] I.R. 142; Hewitt v. Bonvin & Anor. [1941] K.B. 188; Morgans v. Launsbury [1972] A.C. 127 and Nobert v. Navan [1981] R.T.R. 457. He also referenced an Australian case, Scott v. Davis [2000] 204 C.L.R. 333 which concerned an aeroplane). Where the evidence did not sup......
  • Samuel Lindsay v Don Williamson and Others
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 4 May 2012
    ...that the owner have some direct and significant interest in the purpose for which the vehicle is being used. Thus, in Norwood v Navan (1981)R.T.R 457, a husband was not held liable when his wife used his car to go on a shopping expedition with friends even though he knew that she often took......
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