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Targett v Torfaen Borough Council

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JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1992
Year1992
Date1992
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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12 cases
  • Drysdale v Hedges
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 27 July 2012
    ...insufficiently strong glass in a glass panel which caused the tenant injury. Rimmer was followed by the Court of Appeal in Targett v Torfaen Borough Council [1992] 3 All ER. More recently in Boldack v East Lindsay District Council 31 HLR 41 May LJ held that Cavalier v Pope was binding autho......
  • Pearson Education Ltd v The Charter Partnership Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
    ...case) it is reasonable for the claimant not to remove the danger posed by the defect and to run the risk of injury: see Targett v Torfaen BC [1992] 3 All ER 27 per Sir Donald Nicholls V-C at page 37.” 30 The material facts in Baxall can be summarised as follows: i) The claimants could 'reas......
  • Howmet Ltd v Economy Devices Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 August 2016
    ...is clear that Lord Bridge is referring not to damage to property but to economic loss. That is what this Court held in Targett v Torfaen Borough Council [1992] EGLR 275 in relation to the similar point made in the speech of Lord Bridge in Murphy v Brentwood DC [1991] 1 AC 398. In Targett, S......
  • Baxall Securities Ltd v Sheard Walshaw Partnership
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 January 2002
    ...case) it is reasonable for the claimant not to remove the danger posed by the defect and to run the risk of injury: see Targett v Torfaen BC [1992] 3 All ER 27 per Sir Donald Nicholls V-C at p.37. Liability for the second flood 55 It follows that the judge was right to find that that there ......
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