• Thumbnail for Fatal Accidents Act 1846
    The Fatal Accidents Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 93), commonly known as Lord Campbell's Act, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that, for...
    6 KB (642 words) - 11:25, 25 October 2024
  • death was initially codified into legislation by the Fatal Accidents Act 1846 (Lord Campbell's Act). The burden of proof in a wrongful death action is...
    10 KB (1,129 words) - 19:40, 15 August 2024
  • the distribution of a benefit (e.g. salvage or damages under the Fatal Accidents Act 1846, § 2), or liability (e.g. general average contributions, or tithe...
    10 KB (1,104 words) - 11:15, 4 July 2024
  • The Fatal Accidents Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 93), also known as Lord Campbell's Act The Fatal Accidents Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 95) The Fatal Accidents...
    1 KB (140 words) - 10:12, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fatal Accidents Act 1976
    damages. The Fatal Accidents Act 1846 had allowed claims for damages by the relatives of deceased persons for the first time. The 1976 act modernised the...
    5 KB (377 words) - 20:27, 4 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Read v Great Eastern Railway
    for loss of dependency under section 1 of the Fatal Accidents Act 1846, also known as "Lord Campbell's Act", could not be brought if a person died from...
    17 KB (2,160 words) - 11:55, 13 May 2023
  • Libel Act 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c.96) The Fatal Accidents Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c.93) The Obscene Publications Act 1857 An action may be brought by and on behalf...
    772 bytes (148 words) - 18:54, 6 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Deodands Act 1846
    (1846). In the face of railway opposition, Campbell introduced a bill in 1845 that would lead to the Fatal Accidents Act 1846, Lord Campbell's Act, along...
    3 KB (295 words) - 11:25, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Personal injury
    to remedy this grave injustice by enacting statutes (e.g., the Fatal Accidents Act 1846) allowing for post-death wrongful death claims. Similarly, from...
    30 KB (3,868 words) - 02:22, 27 September 2024
  • carriage accident. However, once she died from her injuries, his right to recover for lost consortium ended (after the enactment of the Fatal Accidents Act 1846...
    7 KB (1,057 words) - 03:59, 1 June 2024
  • of a close relative under the Fatal Accidents Act 1846, as of 2024[update] governed instead by the Fatal Accidents Act 1976. A father was paid 3s. 6d...
    2 KB (185 words) - 11:03, 29 August 2024
  • Jervis' Act Lord Birkenhead's Acts Lord Brougham's Act Lord Cairns' Act Lord Campbell's Act: The Libel Act 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c.96) The Fatal Accidents Act 1846...
    9 KB (832 words) - 04:32, 6 September 2024
  • Labourers (1846). In the face of railway opposition, Campbell introduced a bill in 1845 to compensate victims. The bill led to the Fatal Accidents Act 1846, also...
    8 KB (951 words) - 03:45, 9 April 2024
  • members might seek compensation from their employers. Later, the Fatal Accidents Act 1846 made it easier for passengers or their survivors to file claims...
    18 KB (2,440 words) - 14:27, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for English tort law
    their families may gain is governed by the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 (replacing the Fatal Accidents Act 1846). Under s.1A the spouse or dependent of a victim...
    49 KB (6,971 words) - 23:04, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell
    families of railway accident victims in introducing and steering through the Commons, the Fatal Accidents Act 1846, known as Lord Campbell's Act. Following in...
    22 KB (1,988 words) - 18:22, 11 September 2024
  • railway-related deaths, leading to the Fatal Accidents Act 1846 (later superseded by the Fatal Accidents Act 1976) which gave personal representatives...
    52 KB (7,363 words) - 21:28, 8 September 2024
  • Titles Act 1896. The sixth session of the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom, which met from 22 January 1846 until 28 August 1846. Print Works Act 1845...
    179 KB (922 words) - 17:53, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1959
    Services Act 1947 National Galleries of Scotland Act 1906 New Towns Act 1946 Export Guarantees Act 1949 Fatal Accidents Act 1846 Carriage by Air Act 1932...
    49 KB (681 words) - 09:30, 3 June 2024
  • July – opening of Albert Dock, Liverpool. 1 August – Fatal Accidents Act 1846 ("Lord Campbell's Act") provides for a wrongful death claim in civil law....
    15 KB (1,536 words) - 07:17, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Act of Sederunt
    Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc. (Scotland) Act 2016 to include the power to regulate the practice and procedure of public inquiries and fatal accident...
    35 KB (2,540 words) - 18:58, 23 October 2024
  • His Majesty's Railway Inspectorate (category Rail accident investigators)
    Post. 1846-11-10. "Reports on Railway Accidents". The Scotsman. 1841-04-01. "Torksey Bridge". Sheffield Independent. 1850-04-13. "The Awfully Fatal Accident...
    26 KB (3,002 words) - 21:51, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cymmer Colliery explosion
    with no immediate means of support. The court's verdict meant the Fatal Accidents Act 1846, which required compensation to be paid only when a mine manager...
    33 KB (2,721 words) - 13:50, 30 June 2023
  • coal wagonway. While such tramway accidents are not generally listed as rail accidents (note the lack of accidents listed for the next 163 years) this...
    93 KB (11,048 words) - 21:53, 25 October 2024
  • A mining accident is an accident that occurs during the process of mining minerals or metals. Thousands of miners die from mining accidents each year,...
    83 KB (9,994 words) - 02:37, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cumbrian Coast line
    obtained its act of Parliament, the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway Act 1845, in the next session of Parliament. and in 1846 a further act of Parliament...
    43 KB (4,708 words) - 02:38, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for London and South Western Railway
    struck by an approaching express train on the fast line, and sustained fatal injuries. Disregarding the Waterloo & City line, the longest tunnel is Honiton...
    81 KB (11,124 words) - 09:06, 5 September 2024
  • and a number of passengers, including two children, were drowned. Several fatal incidents combined with general passenger concern caused the canal company...
    75 KB (7,612 words) - 01:16, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for York and North Midland Railway
    decided to cross the line but was knocked down by a wagon resulting in fatal injuries. In 1852 the Leeds Northern Railway reached Stockton, made an alliance...
    30 KB (3,784 words) - 11:25, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway
    England and Bedale Branch Railway Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. xcvi), in 1848. Permission for a line to Malton was given in 1846 to the GNER, altered in 1847...
    92 KB (11,482 words) - 07:41, 4 September 2024