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Contributory negligence: When is the claimant’s share of blame too little to count?
Ann Houghton and Karl Hirst take the back-to-basics approach when considering liability and the effect of the ‘just and equitable’ principle ‘While there is no authority to prescribe a threshold-level at which there should be no finding of contributory negligence because the share of responsibility is so small that it should be disregarded, it would …
Cases Referenced
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- AB (by his mother and next friend CD) v Main [2015] EWHC 3183 (QB)
- Admiralty Commissioners v SS Volute [1922] 1 AC 129
- Andrews v Farnborough (1966) unreported Court of Appeal
- Butcher v Cornwall County Council [2002] EWCA Civ 1640
- Capps v Miller [1988] EWCA Civ 5
- Cooper v Carillion plc [2003] EWCA Civ 1811
- Davies v Mann (1842) 10 M&W 546
- Davies v Swan Motor Co (Swansea) Ltd [1949] 2 KB 291
- Ellis (by his grandmother and Litigation Friend Janet Titley) v Kelly & anor [2018] EWHC 2031 (QB)
- Fitzgerald v Lane [1988] UKHL 5
- Johnson v Tennant Bros Ltd (1954) unreported Court of Appeal
- Jones v Lawrence [1969] 3 All ER 267
- Rehman v Brady [2012] EWHC 78 (QB)
- Sahib Foods Ltd (In Liquidation) v Paskin Kyriakides Sands (A Firm) [2003] EWCA Civ 1832
- Stapley v Gypsum Mines Ltd [1953] UKHL 4
- The Boy Andrew [1948] AC 140