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Fatal Accident Claims: Multiple negligent acts
Anna Macey explores the potentially wide ranging effects of the recent Court of Appeal decision in Haxton v Philips Electronics Ltd ‘Elias LJ held there was nothing in the Fatal Accidents Act or subsequent case law which suggested any reason to distinguish this particular chose in action from any other.’ In this unusual case the …
Cases Referenced
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- Cookson v Knowles [1978] UKHL 3
- Fox v British Airways [2013] EWCA Civ 972
- Haxton v Philips Electronics UK Ltd [2013] EWHC 1764 (QB); [2014] EWCA Civ 4
- Wright v Cambridge Medical Group [2011] EWCA Civ 669