Tort law

Cases

A

Addie v Dumbreck [1929] AC 358

Alcock& ors v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire [1992] AC 310

Alexandrou v Oxford [1993] 4 All ER 328

Allen v Gulf Oil Refinery [1981] AC 1001

Allied Maples v Simmons & Simmons [1995] 4 All ER 907

Ancell v McDermott [1993] 4 All ER 355

Anns v Merton London Borough Council [1978] AC 728

Arthur Hall v Simons [2000] 3 WLR 543

Ashton v. Turner and Anr. [1981] l QB

Attia v British Gas Corporation [1988] QB 304

B

Baker v TE Hopkins & Son Ltd [1959] 1 WLR 966

Baker v Willoughby [1970] AC 467

Barnett v Chelsea & Kensington Hospital [1969] 1 QB 428    Youtube clip

Barrett v MOD 1 WLR 1217

Barton v Armstrong [1976] AC 104

Behrens & ors v Bertram Mills Circus Ltd. [1957] 2 QB 1

Blake v Galloway [2004] 3 All ER 315

Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 583

Bolitho v City & Hackney Health Authority [1997] 3 WLR 1151

Bolton v Stone [1951] AC 850

Bonnington Castings Ltd v Wardlaw [1956] AC 613

Booth v Crown Prosecution Service [2006] EWHC 192

Bourhill v Young [1943] AC 92

Bowmakers Ltd v Barnet Instruments Ltd [1945] KB 65

Box v Jubb LR 4 Ex Div 76

British Railways Board v Herrington [1972] AC 877   Youtube clip

Brooks v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2005] 1 WLR 1495

Broome v Perkins [1987] Crim LR 271

Burton v Islington Health Authority [1993] QB 204

Bury v Pope (1587) Cro Eliz 118

C

 

Cambridge Water v Eastern Counties Leather [1994] 2 AC 264

Capital & Counties (Capco) v Hampshire County Council [1997] 3 WLR 331

Caparo Industries Plc v Dickman [1990] 2 AC 605  Youtube clip

Capps v Miller [1989] 1 WLR 839

Carstairs v Taylor (1871) LR 6 Exchequer 217

Charing Cross Electric Supply Co v Hydraulic Power Co [1914] 3 KB 772

Chester v Afshar [2004] 3 WLR 927

Christie v Davey (1893) 1 Ch 316    Youtube clip

Clunis v Camden and Islington Health Authority [1998] QB 978

Condon v Basi [1985] 1 WLR 866

Cotton v Derbyshire Dales District Council [1994] EWCA Civ 17

Coventry v Lawrence [2012] EWCA Civ 26

Cross v Kirkby [2000] EWCA Civ 426

Crown River Cruises v Kimbolton Fireworks [1996] 2 Lloyds Rep 533

Cutler v United Dairies [1933] 2 KB 297

D

Darby v National Trust [2001] EWCA Civ 189 

Dann v Hamilton [1939] 1 KB 509

Davies v Swan Motor Co [1949] 2 KB 291

De Keyser's Royal Hotel v Spicer Bros (1914) 30 TLR 257

Donoghue v Folkestone Properties [2003] EWCA Civ 231

Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562  Youtube clip

Dooley v Cammell Laird [1971] 1 Lloyd's Rep 271

Dulieu v White  [1901] 2 KB 669

Dunne v North West Gas Board [1964] 2 QB 806

 

E

Edwards v Railways Executive [1952] AC 737

Elguzouli-Daf v Commissioner of Police [1995] QB 335

F

Fairchild v Glenhaven [2002] 3 WLR 89

Ferguson v Welsh [1987] 1 WLR 1553

Fitzgerald v Lane [1989] 1 AC 328

Froom v Butcher [1976] 1 QB 286

G

Giles v Walker (1890) 24 QBD 656

Gillingham Borough Council v Medway Dock [1993] QB 343 

Goldman v Hargrave [1967] Ch 647

Gough (an infant) v Thorns [1966] 1 WLR 1387

Gray v Barr [1971] 2 QB 554

Greatorex v Greatorex [2000] 1 WLR 1970

Green v Chelsea Waterworks Co 1894 70 LT 547

Gregg v Scott [2005] 2 WLR 268

Gwilliam v West Hertfordshire Hospital NHS Trust [2002] EWCA Civ 1041

H

Haley v London Electricity Board [1965] AC 778

Harris v Birkenhead [1976 1 WLR 279

Haynes v Harwood [1935] 1 KB 146

Hertfordshire Police v Van Colle [2008] UKHL 50

Hicks v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire [1992] All ER 65

HIH Casualty and General Insurance Ltd v Chase Manhattan Bank [2003] UKHL 6

Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [1988] 2 WLR 1049

Hinz v Berry [1970] 2 QB 40

Hirose Electrical v Peak Ingredients [2011] EWCA Civ 987

Holbeck Hall Hotel Limited v Scarborough Borough Council [2000] 2 All ER 705

Holden v White [1982] 2 All ER 328

Hollywood Silver Fox Farm v Emmett [1936] 2 KB 468

Holman v Johnson (1775) 1 Cowp 341

Holtby v Brigham & Cowan [2000] 3 ALL ER 421

Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd [1970] AC 1004

Hotson v East Berkshire Area Health Authority [1987] AC 750

Hughes v Lord Advocate [1963] AC 837

Hunter v British Coal Corporation [1998] 2 All ER 97

Hunter v Canary Wharf [1998] 1WLR 434

Hussain v Lancaster City Council [1999] 2 WLR 1142

I

Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd v Shatwell [1965] AC 656

J

JD v East Berkshire Community Health NHS Trust and others [2005] 2 WLR 993

Jebson v Ministry of Defence [2000] 1 WLR 2055

Jobling v Associated Dairies [1982] AC 794

Jolley v Sutton [2000] 1 WLR 1082

Jones v Portsmouth City Council [2002] EWHC 1568

K

Kennaway v Thompson [1981] QB 88

Kent v Griffiths [2000] 2 WLR 1158

Khorasandjian v Bush [1993] 3 WLR 476

Kirkham v CC Greater Manchester Police [1990] 2 QB 283

Knightley v Johns & Ors [1982] 1 WLR 349

L

LB Southwark v Mills, Baxter v Camden LB [1999] 3 WLR 939 

Lamb v Camden LBC [1981] 2 All ER 408

Lane v Holloway [1967] 3 WLR 1003

Latimer v AEC [1953] AC 643

Leakey & Ors v National Trust [1980] QB 485

Lemmon v Webb [1894] 3 Ch 1

Lowery v Walker [1911] AC 10

LMS International v Styrene Packaging and Insulation [2005] EWHC 2065

M

Malone v Laskey [1907] 2 KB 141 

Mansfield v Weetabix [1997] EWCA Civ 1352

McFarlane v EE Caledonia [1993] EWCA Civ 13

McGeown v Northern Ireland Housing Executive [1994] 3 All ER 53

McGhee v National Coal Board [1973] 1 WLR 1

McKew v Holland [1969] 3 All ER 1621

McKinnon Industries v Walkers [1951] WN 401

McLoughlin v O’ Brian[1983] 1 AC 410

Meah v McCreamer No 1 [1985] 1 All ER 367

Meah v McCreamer (No. 2) [1986] 1 All ER 943

Miles v Forest Rock Granite (1918) 34 TLR 500

Miller v Jackson [1977] 3 WLR 20

Moberly v Alsop (1991) The Times 13 December

Morris v Murray [1991] 2 QB 6

Moynes v Cooper 1956 1 KB 439

Mullin v Richards [1998] 1 WLR 1304

Murphy v Culhane [1977] QB 94

N

Nettleship v Weston [1971] 3 WLR 370    Youtube clip

Network Rail v Morris [2004] EWCA Civ 172

Nichols v Marsland (1876) 2 ExD 1

O

Ogwo v Taylor [1987] 3 WLR 1145

Osman v Ferguson [1993] 4 All ER 344

Osman v. United Kingdom (23452/94) [1998] ECHR 101

P 

Page Motors v Epsom Borough Council [1982] LGR 337

Page v Smith [1996] 1 AC 155

Pankhania v London Borough of Hackney [2002] EWHC 2441

Paris v Stepney [1951] AC 367

Pearson's case 2 Lew. C.C. 144

Pearson v North Western Gas Board [1968] 2 All ER 669

Performance Cars Ltd v Abraham [1962] 1 QB 33

Perry v Kendricks Transport [1956] WLR 85

Peters v Prince of Wales Theatre [1943] KB 73

Phipps v Rochester Coporation [1955] 1 QB 450

Pitts v Hunt [1990] 3 All ER 344

Pontardawe RDC v Moore-Gwyn [1929] 1 Ch 656

Ponting v Noakes (1849) 2 QB 281

Q

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R

Ratcliff v McConnell & Harpers Adam College [1997] EWCA Civ 2679

Re Polemis & Furness Withy & Company Ltd [1921] 3 KB 560

Read v Lyons [1947] AC 156  Youtube clip

Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2000] 1 AC 360

Reilly& Anor v Merseyside Regional Health Authority [1994] EWCA 30

Revill v Newbery [1996] 2 WLR 239

Ribee v Norrie [2000] EWCA Civ 275

Rickards v Lothian [1913] AC 263

Roberts v Ramsbottom [1980] 1 WLR 823

Robinson v Chief Constable of Yorkshire [2018] 2 WLR 595     Youtube clip

Robinson v Kilvert (1889) 41 Ch D 88

Roe v Minister of Health [1954] 2 WLR 915

Roles v Nathan [1963] 1 WLR 1117   Youtube clip

Rondel v Worsely [1967] 3 WLR 1666

Rowley v DPP [2003] EWHC 693

Rylands v Fletcher [1868] UKHL 1

S

Sacco v Chief Constable of South Wales [1998] EWCA Civ 843

Salmon v Seafarers Restaurants [1983] 1 WLR 1264

Saunders v Edwards [1987] 1 WLR 1116

Sedleigh-Denfield v O'Callaghan [1940] AC 880     Youtube clip

Shelfer v City of London Electric Lighting Co. (1895) 1 Ch D 287

Sion v Hampstead Health Authority [1994] EWCA Civ 26

Smith v Baker & Sons [1891] AC 325

Smith v Eric Bush [1990] 1 AC 831

Smith v Leech Brain [1962] 2 QB 405

Smith v Littlewoods Organisations Ltd [1987] AC 241

Smith v Scott & Ors [1973] 1 Ch 314 

Smeaton v Ilford Corporation [1954] Ch 450

Sochacki v Sas [1947] All ER 344

Southport Corporation v Esso Petroleum [1954] 3 WLR 200 

Spicer v Smee [1946] 1 All ER 489

St Helen's Smelting Co v Tipping [1865] UKHL J81

Staples v West Dorset District Council [1995] EWCA Civ 30

Stapley v Gypsum Mines [1953] AC 663

Stovin v Wise [1996]3 WLR 389

Sturges v Bridgman [1879] 11 Ch D 852

T

 

Tate & Lyle v Greater London Council [1983] 2 AC 509

Taylor v Glasgow Corporation [1922] 1 AC 448 Youtube clip

Taylorson v Shieldness Produce Ltd [1994] PIQR 329

Tetley v Chitty [1986] 1 All ER 663

The Wagon Mound No 1 [1961] AC 388

The Wagon Mound No 2 [1967] 1 AC 617

Thompson-Schwab v Costaki [1956] 1 WLR 335

Tinsley v Milligan [1993] 3 WLR 126

Titchener v British Railways Board [1983] 1 WLR 1427

Tomlinson v Congleton Borough Council [2003] 3 WLR 705

Transco v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council [2002] 2 AC 1

Tremain v Pike [1969] 3 All ER 1303

U

UCB Corporate Services Ltd. v Williams [2002] EWCA Civ 555

V

Vaughan v Menlove (1837) 3 Bing NC 467

Vellino v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester [2002] 1 WLR 218

W

W v Essex County Council [2000] 2 WLR 601

Watson v Croft Promo-Sport [2009] 3 All ER 249

Watt v Hertfordshire [1954] 1 WLR 835

Webb v Barclays Bank Plc and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust [2001] Lloyd's Rep Med 500

Wells v Cooper [1958] 2 All ER 547

Wheat v Lacon [1966] AC 552   Youtube clip

Wheeler v JJ Saunders [1995] 3 WLR 466

White v Blackmore [1972] 3 WLR 296

White v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire [1998] 3 WLR 1509

Willsher v Essex Area Health Authority [1988] 1 AC 1074

Wooldridge v Sumner [1963] 2 QB 43

Worrall v British Railways Board [1999] EWCA Civ 1312