Ellis (by his grandmother and Litigation Friend Janet Titley) v Kelly & anor [2018] EWHC 2031 (QB)

Parental liability: Some people’s kids…

Judges often have to determine the extent to which liability for an accident should be apportioned. Ann Houghton and Karl Hirst consider this in the vexed context of parental responsibility ‘The intriguing question in Ellis related to an everyday decision of pure parenting. To what degree would the law critically scrutinise and second-guess those types …

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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 …

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