Yachuk v Oliver Blais Company Ltd

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1949
Date1949
Year1949
CourtPrivy Council

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  • Paterson Zochonis & Company Ltd v Merfarken Packaging Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
  • Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 Noviembre 1997
    ...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 Board,......
  • Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 15 Julio 1999
    ...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 ......
  • Reeves v. Metropolitan London Police,
    • Canada
    • 15 Julio 1999
    ...35]. Champagne v. United States of America (1994), 513 N.W.2d. 75 (N.D. Sup. Ct.), consd. [para. 35]. Yachuk v. Blais (Oliver) Co., [1949] A.C. 386 (P.C.), consd. [para. Hughes v. Lord Advocate, [1963] A.C. 837 (H.L.), consd. [para. 48]. Pretty on Top v. Hardin (City) (1979), 597 P.2d 58, c......
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  • THE STANDARD OF CARE FOR CHILDREN ENGAGED IN ADULT ACTIVITIES: NOT EXACTLY CHILD'S PLAY.
    • Canada
    • University of British Columbia Law Review Vol. 53 No. 2, December 2020
    • 1 Diciembre 2020
    ...(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......