Yachuk v Oliver Blais Company Ltd
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1949 |
| Date | 1949 |
| Year | 1949 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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17 cases
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King v Liverpool City Council
...are cases in this category where there is a duty of care. It is implicit in the decision of the Privy Council in Yachuk v. Oliver Blais [1949] A.C.386 that there may be a liability in the first of these examples; and the Canadian case of Ontario Hospital Services Commission v. Borsoski [197......
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Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
...the child, he ought not to reproach the child with yielding to that temptation." 48That case was followed by the Privy Council in Yachuk v Oliver Blais [1949] AC 386, where the infant plaintiff was negligently sold gasoline by the defendant and injured himself when he set fire to it. The B......
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Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
...be unaware of the risks to which he will expose himself by his deliberate act. Or he may be too young to appreciate them, as in Yachuk v. Oliver Blais Co. Ltd [1949] A.C. 386, where petrol was sold to a child aged nine who was unaware of its dangerous properties, or Hughes v. Lord Advocate ......
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2 books & journal articles
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Construction of a Jamaican building scheme in the privy council
...v Paull [1915] A.C. 372(P.C); St. Francis Hydro Electric Co. v. R. [1937] 2 All E.R. 541 (P.C.); Yachuk v. Oliver Btais Co. Ltd. [1949] 2 All E.R. 150 (P.C.). 37 Jamaica Mutual Life Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Hillsborough Ltd. , Supreme Court Civil Appeal No. 9/86, dated October 14, 15, and 16, ......
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THE STANDARD OF CARE FOR CHILDREN ENGAGED IN ADULT ACTIVITIES: NOT EXACTLY CHILD'S PLAY.
...(CA). (12) Ibid. (13) See Oliver Blais Co Ltd v Yachuk (1945), [1946] SCR 1 at 13-14, [1946] 1 DLR 5 [Yachuk], rev'd on other grounds [1949] 2 All ER 150, [1949] AC 386 (JCPC); Bouvier v Fee (1931), [1932] SCR 118 at 120, [1932] 2 DLR 424 [Bouvier]; Tilander v Gosselin (1966), [1967] 1 OR 2......