Penny v Wimbledon Urban District Council
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1898 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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27 cases
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Salsbury v Woodland
...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......
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Rowe v Herman
...hazards. 9 We accordingly explored the true nature of the highway exception. An early illustration of it is to be found in Penny v The Wimbledon Urban District Council [1899] 2 QB 72. There the District Council had employed a contractor to repair a highway. In the course of their works the ......
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Walsh v Holst & Company Ltd
...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......
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The site
...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 ......