"Rule in Rylands v Fletcher". This doctrine was further developed by English courts, and made an immediate impact on the law. Prior to Rylands, English...
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in cases brought under Rylands v Fletcher and the general tort of nuisance. It was also significant in implying that Rylands was not an independent tort...
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Transco plc v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council [2003] UKHL 61 is an important English tort law case, concerning the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher. Transco...
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plaintiff's injuries. The claimant also claimed under the principle in Rylands v Fletcher, that the ball was a dangerous item that had "escaped" from the cricket...
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liability. In Fletcher v. Rylands In the Exchequer Chamber, L.R. 1 Ex. 265, 1866, affirmed in the House of Lords on appeal in Rylands v. Fletcher L.R. 3 H...
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Authority v General Jones Pty Ltd is a tort law case from the High Court of Australia, which decided it would abolish the rule in Rylands v Fletcher, and the...
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activities. Under the precedent established in the English case of Rylands v Fletcher, upon which the Indian doctrine of absolute liability is based, anyone...
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act or omission. An early example of strict liability is the rule Rylands v Fletcher, where it was held that "any person who for his own purposes brings...
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v Papakura District Council (New Zealand) [2002] UKPC 9 is a cited case in New Zealand regarding liability under tort for negligence under Rylands v Fletcher...
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vis-à-vis the tortious principle of strict liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher. In other words, absolute liability is strict liability without any...
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existence of the rule in Rylands v Fletcher. Writers such as John Murphy at Lancaster University have popularised the idea that Rylands forms a separate, though...
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Kingdom, this area of law is governed by the rule established in Rylands v Fletcher. Factors determining an activity is ultrahazardous: The relative possibility...
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2d 533 Gebhart v. D. A. Davidson & Co., 661 P.2d 855 18 Am. Jur.2d Conversion § 2 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330. Transco plc v Stockport Metropolitan...
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Ltd v Auckland City Council [2000] NZAR 324 is a cited case in New Zealand regarding the development of nuisance claims under Rylands v Fletcher. As the...
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successful were they that, in 1819, Rylands' father merged his retail business with theirs, creating the firm of Rylands & Sons. At its peak, the company...
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into the Rylands v. Fletcher principle, which was held to no longer be good law in Australia. Both ignis suus and the Rylands and Fletcher rule were...
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Beloye (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) List of sinkholes of the United States Rylands v Fletcher "Lake Peigneur TMDLS for dissolved oxygen and nutrients" (PDF) (Report)...
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the Ernst water well. The claim is supported by the rule in Rylands v Fletcher. Ernst v Alberta Energy Regulator CanLII - 2013 ABQB 537 (CanLII) Supreme...
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writing. In Read v Lyons (1947), (where a munitions worker was injured in a factory explosion), the court distinguished Rylands v Fletcher (1868) because...
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Loss of consortium (redirect from Baker v. Bolton)
to the family member with legal control over them. For example, in Baker v Bolton (1808) 1 Camp 493, a man was permitted to recover for his loss of consortium...
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in Athans v. Canadian Adventure Camps (1977) where the Court held that the personality right included both image and name. In Gould Estate v. Stoddart...
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Defamation (redirect from Rex v. Orme and Nutt (1700))
Dow Jones v Gutnick is Berezovsky v Michaels in England. Australia's first Twitter defamation case to go to trial is believed to be Mickle v Farley. The...
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wild regardless of its use. The scienter action is referred to in Rylands v. Fletcher in that one who keeps a wild thing "must keep it at his peril" to...
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apologised after A-level Law Paper Two contained a 30 mark question on Rylands v Fletcher and Private nuisance, accounting for 30% of the 100 mark paper, which...
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Ratcliffe v. Plymouth & Torbay Health Authority, 1998 "6 HKCFAR 207", Sanfield Building Contractors Ltd v. Li Kai Cheong, 2003 "200 CLR 121", Schellenberg v. Tunnel...
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English defamation law (section Aldington v Tolstoy)
awards including: £350,000 in John v MGN [1992]; £200,000 Donovan v The Face Magazine [1993]; and £600,000 Sutcliffe v Private Eye [1989]. And contrasting...
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adopted by the Supreme Court in its landmark 1964 ruling in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, in which the Warren Court held that: The constitutional guarantees...
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Tortious interference (redirect from Garret v Taylor)
(perhaps the earliest) instance of recognition of this tort occurred in Garret v Taylor, 79 Eng. Rep. 485 (K.B. 1620). In that case, the defendant drove customers...
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v Baxendale (1854) 9 Exch. 341 (Court of Exchequer): the extent to which a party in breach of contract is liable for the damages.- Rylands v Fletcher...
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certain strict liability torts, such as liability under the rule in Rylands v Fletcher or cattle trespass. In a number of instances, the exercise of the...
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