In English law, remoteness between a cause of action and the loss or damage sustained as a result is addressed through a set of rules in both tort and...
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teaching license Remote access (disambiguation) Remoteness (disambiguation), various meanings: Extreme points of Earth ยงย Remoteness, inaccessible places...
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Causation in English law concerns the legal tests of remoteness, causation and foreseeability in the tort of negligence. It is also relevant for English criminal...
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Modern libel and slander laws in many countries are originally descended from English defamation law. The history of defamation law in England is somewhat...
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Trespass in English law is an area of tort law broadly divided into three groups: trespass to the person, trespass to goods, and trespass to land. Trespass...
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English tort law concerns the compensation for harm to people's rights to health and safety, a clean environment, property, their economic interests, or...
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Privacy in English law is a rapidly developing area of English law that considers situations where individuals have a legal right to informational privacy...
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Nervous shock (redirect from Nervous shock in English law)
In English law, a nervous shock is a psychiatric / mental illness or injury inflicted upon a person by intentional or negligent actions or omissions of...
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In the English law of homicide, manslaughter is a less serious offence than murder, the differential being between levels of fault based on the mens rea...
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condition of the premises. In English law, occupiers' liability towards visitors is regulated in the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957. In addition, occupiers'...
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Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc (category English remedy case law)
Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc [2008] UKHL 48 is an English contract law case, concerning remoteness of damage. Transfield Shipping was a charterer. It...
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In English tort law, there can be no liability in negligence unless the claimant establishes both that they were owed a duty of care by the defendant...
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instructions. It was, however, observed that the common law rules of remoteness would not apply. Similarly in Swindle v Harrison a solicitor, Mr Swindle, could...
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In the English law of tort, professional negligence is a subset of the general rules on negligence to cover the situation in which the defendant has represented...
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English contract law is the body of law that regulates legally binding agreements in England and Wales. With its roots in the lex mercatoria and the activism...
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Nuisance in English law is an area of tort law broadly divided into two torts; private nuisance, where the actions of the defendant are "causing a substantial...
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Criminal damage in English law was originally a common law offence. The offence was largely concerned with the protection of dwellings and the food supply...
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In English tort law, an individual may owe a duty of care to another, in order to ensure that they do not suffer any unreasonable harm or loss. If such...
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recovered, there are a few other recognizable types of damages under English law, and still others that have their validity subject to ongoing debate:...
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Victoria Laundry (Windsor) Ltd v Newman Industries Ltd (category English remedy case law)
(Windsor) Ltd v Newman Industries Ltd [1949] 2 KB 528 is an English contract law case on the remoteness of damage principle. Newman Industries Ltd was meant...
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Recovery for pure economic loss in English law, arising from negligence, has traditionally been limited. Notably, recovery for losses that are "purely...
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cohabited alongside English into the modern period, but due to their remoteness from the Germanic languages, influence on English was notably limited...
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C Czarnikow Ltd v Koufos (category English remedy case law)
an English contract law case, concerning remoteness of damage. The House of Lords held that the "remoteness" test, as a limit to liability, is, in contract...
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contracts in English law is an area of English contract law, which concerns how the courts decide what an agreement means. It is settled law that the process...
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In English law, loss of chance refers to a particular problem of causation, which arises in tort and contract. The law is invited to assess hypothetical...
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Re Polemis & Furness, Withy & Co Ltd (redirect from In re Polemis)
In Re Polemis & Furness, Withy & Co Ltd (1921) is an English tort case on causation and remoteness in the law of negligence. The Court of Appeal held...
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Elizabeth Marvel, and Ryan Eggold to Guest Star in Season 24". Give Me My Remote. Retrieved August 31, 2024. "Law & Order Casts Ryan Eggold as [Spoiler]'s Brother...
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Easements in English law are certain rights in English land law that a person has over another's land. Rights recognised as easements range from very...
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Theft Act 1968 (redirect from Theft in English Law)
efforts of the Criminal Law Revision Committee to reform the English law of theft. The Larceny Act 1916 had codified the common law, including larceny itself...
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Vicarious liability in English law is a doctrine of English tort law that imposes strict liability on employers for the wrongdoings of their employees...
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