Smith v Manchester Corporation
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1974 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
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176 cases
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Ebanks (Andrew) v Jephther McClymont
...same principle ought to be applied to the damages awarded for loss of earning capacity. It is true, as stated by Scarman L.J. in Smith v. Manchester Corporation (1974) 17 K.I.R. 1 , 8, 9 that the loss of earning capacity has arisen at the time of and in consequence of the accident, but its......
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Moeliker v A. Reyrolle & Company Ltd
...Library Transcript No. 215) and ( Herod -v- Birds Eye Foods 27th November, 1975, so far unreported) that ( Smith -v- Manchester Corporation 1975 K.I.R.) laid down no new principle of law, and I entirely agree. Smith's case is merely an example of an award of damages under a head which has l......
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Teo Ai Ling (by her next friend Chua Wee Bee) v Koh Chai Kwang
...2 Lloyd’s Rep 40 at 41. The difference between the two methods of compensation was succinctly explained in Smith v Manchester Corp (1974) 17 KIR 1 cited with approval by the Court of Appeal in Chang Ah Lek at 91: Loss of future earnings or future earning capacity is usually compounded of tw......
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Kieran Murphy v Ministry of Defence
...of broad judgment and "that exercise is no more scientific than the broad brush judgment which the court makes when carrying out a Smith v Manchester 212 I have reached the conclusion that a Smith v Manchester award here would fit the facts much better. On analysis as I find, this is a clas......
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1 firm's commentaries
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Claims For The Psychological Effects of Loss of Ability to Play Sport
...BBC TV, 1982 8 [1964] AC 326 at 365 9 See Lord Reid in Davies v Taylor [1974] AC 207 at 213 10 [2001] PIQR Q13 11 [1911] 2 KB 786 CA 12 (1974) 17 KIR 1; (1974) 118 SJ 597, CA 13 CA, 11.12.98 (unreported). Referred to in 'Sports Law' by Beloff, Kerr and Demetriou, First Edition, 1999, Hart P......
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Tort Law
...[2016] SGDC 140. 128 [2016] SGDC 250. 129 Chai Kang Wei Samuel v Shaw Linda Gillian [2010] 3 SLR 587. 130 See Smith v Manchester Corp [1974] 17 KIR 1, which referred to the weakening of the plaintiff's competitive position in the labour market as an “existing loss”. 131 [2016] SGHC 129. 132......
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Court Awards of Damages for Loss of Future Earnings: An Empirical Study and an Alternative Method of Calculation
...National Association of ForensicEconomists and on their surveys of their members’ practices.2741423 In Smith v. Manchester Corporation [1974] 17 K.I.R. 1.24 Steyn LJ in Blamire v. South Cumbria Health Authority [1993] P.I.Q.R. Q5.25 Stephenson LJ in Moeliker v. a Reyrolle & Co Ltd [1977] 1 ......