Penny v Wimbledon Urban District Council

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1898
Year1898
CourtQueen's Bench Division

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29 cases
  • Salsbury v Woodland
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 1 April 1969
    ...employer is that high; and although the learned judge reinforced himself by certain observations of Lord Justice Romer in Penny V. Wimbledon Urban. District Council (1899 2 Queen's Bench, at page 78), in my opinion the test which he applied was far too stringent. 16 In truth, according to t......
  • Rowe v Herman
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 7 May 1997
    ... ... That application had succeeded before District Judge Karet on 18th July 1996. Judge Viljoen, however, ... An early illustration of it is to be found in Penny v The Wimbledon Urban District Council [1899] 2 QB 72 ... ...
  • Walsh v Holst & Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 1 July 1958
    ...a prima facie case against both. 9 So far as the Board is concerned, the law as stated in ( Penny v. Wimbledon Urban District Council 1899, 2 Q.3. at page 78) is applicable: "When a person, through a contractor, does work which from its nature is likely to cause danger to others, there is a......
  • Saper v Hungate Builders Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • Invalid date
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1 books & journal articles
  • The site
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume II - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...physical damage. 465 459 Overton v Freeman (1852) 11 CB 867 at 874, per Cresswell J [138 Er 717 at 720]; Penny v Wimbledon Urban Council [1898] 2 QB 212; Holliday v National Telephone Co [1899] 1 QB 221 at 227–228, per Wills J (reversed on other grounds: [1899] 2 QB 392). 460 Ng Siok Poh v ......