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Timestamp: 2017-03-29 22:53:29
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Matched Legal Cases: ['art.3', 'art.4', 'art.2', 'art.8', 'art.2', 'art.2', 'Art 2', 'Art. 2', 'Art. 8', 'art 36', 'art 36', 'art 35']

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Summary: The court declined to hold a substantive hearing to investigate a hospital's non-resuscitation policy. It was particularly important, where ethical questions were concerned, that the court did not enunciate general propositions of principle outside of the particular factual context in which the issues arose. Courts should be reluctant to address ethical questions unless driven to do so by the need to resolve a practical problem. JGE v Trustees of the Portsmouth Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust
Summary: The relationship between a Roman Catholic parish priest and a bishop was sufficiently close in character to that of employee and employer to make it just and fair to hold a diocese vicariously liable for the wrongful acts of one of its priests. (1) AC (2) DC (3) TR v Devon County Council
Summary: A local authority was liable, under the Highways Act 1980 s.41, for personal injury sustained in a road traffic accident where it had failed to take such care as was reasonably required to ensure that the highway was not a danger to traffic by carrying out monthly inspections in accordance with the relevant codes of practice for highway maintenance management. An Informer v Chief Constable
Summary: Although the police were under a duty of care in respect of the safety and well-being of an informer who was authorised as a covert human intelligence source, the duty of care did not extend to economic loss. JGR v English Province of Our Lady of Charity (1) Trustees of the Portsmouth Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust (2)
Summary: A Roman Catholic diocese could be vicariously liable for the wrongful acts of one of its priests given the nature and closeness of the relationship between them. JGE v English Province of Our Lady of Charity (1) Trustees of the Portsmouth Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust (2)
Summary: A Roman Catholic diocese could be vicariously liable for the wrongful acts of one of its priests given the nature and closeness of the relationship between them. OOO & Others v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Summary: HUMAN RIGHTS - POLICE
DUTY TO UNDERTAKE EFFECTIVE INVESTIGATION : FORCED LABOUR : INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT : POLICE POWERS AND DUTIES : SLAVERY : art.3 EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS : art.4 EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS : s.8 HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998 : art.2 EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Furmedge & Others v Chester-le-Street District Council and Others
Summary: Events company Brouhaha International Limited found 55% to blame for the incident in this case which involved a large, tent like, inflatable art structure designed by artist Maurice Agis take off in July 2006, killing 2 and injurying many more. The finding was made in contribution proceedings brought by Chester-le-Street District Council, the apportionment of blame being as between those two parties only. Had the now deceased artist, Maurice Agis, been a party to the proceedings it is likely he would have carried most of the blame. However, he was uninsured and had no assets. Stevenson (1) Hinton (2) Taylor (3) v Southwark London Borough Council
Claimants alleged that business failed because of defendants refusal to grant full planning permission. Claim dismissed. Everett & Anor v Comojo (UK) Ltd (T/A The Metropolitan & Others)
Summary: There was a duty of care on the management of a nightclub in respect of the actions of third parties on the premises but the standard of care imposed or the scope of the duty had to be fair, just and reasonable. As between the managers of a nightclub and guests, there should not be a higher degree of foreseeability than was required under the common duty of care in the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957. Clift v Slough Borough Council
Summary: Where a local authority had included a person on its Violent Persons Register and had emailed it to certain customer-facing departments and to supernumerary departments, a judge, hearing the subsequent claim for libel, had been right to hold that the publication to supernumerary departments was disproportionate and in breach of the individual's rights under the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.8. As such the local authority could not rely on qualified privilege as a defence. VL v Oxfordshire County Council
Summary: This case raised the interesting and important question of the extent to which a local authority’s child care team (social workers and lawyers) owe a duty to a child in care to make an application on the child’s behalf for criminal injuries compensation.
Lord Faulks QC and Andrew Warnock appeared for the Defendant Council. Harvey v Plymouth City Council
Summary: When a local authority licensed the public to use its land for recreational purposes, it was consenting to normal recreational activities, carrying normal risks, and its duty as occupier to an implied licensee could not be stretched to cover any form of activity, however reckless. A v Essex County Council
Summary: A priest's sexual abuse of the claimant had been so closely connected with his employment as a priest that it would be fair and just to hold the archdiocese which had employed him vicariously liable for that abuse. Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Summary: An NHS foundation trust had breached its positive obligation under the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.2 to protect the life of a mentally ill woman who had committed suicide after absconding from one of its hospitals. Connor v Surrey County Council
Summary: The law would, in an appropriate case, require a duty-ower to fulfil a pre-existing private law duty by the exercise of a public law discretion, but only if that could be done consistently with the duty-ower's full performance of his public law obligations. In the instant case, a local education authority's negligence in failing to establish, pursuant to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 s.14 and s.16A, an interim executive board of school governors had caused one of its employees to suffer personal injury in the form of psychiatric damage. Maga v Trustees of the Birmingham Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church
Summary: The failure for a period of 18 months to cater for the special educational needs of a child did not constitute a denial of the child's right to education under the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 Protocol 1 art.2. AB & Others v Nugent Care Society
Summary: The correct approach to compensating claims of historic physical and sexual abuse at children's homes where the consequences fell short of any psychiatric diagnosis was to consider the adverse psychological consequences as part of the picture to be borne in mind when considering the level of general damages for the assault suffered. West Sussex County Council v Russell
Summary: This case considered the correct approach to the issue of whether a police officer had reasonable grounds for suspicion of a suspect’s involvement in an offence. The court concluded that the factors considered by the officer should be examined on a cumulative rather than an individual basis. X & Y v Hounslow London Borough Council
Summary: A public authority which is trying to exercise its statutory powers and duties does not, without some additional ingredient, assume a responsibility in the law of Tort. Thus a social worker who visited the claimant was merely performing her statutory duty which did not itself give rise to a private law cause of action. Peters v Dr P Halstead and East Midland Health Authority
Summary: The Court held that there was no duty to mitigate in the circumstances where an individual elected for damages to pay for a care home even if it was the same care home that was provided free by the local authority pursuant to its statutory duty. The preference for private funding expressed by a claimant's deputy was not as a matter of law capable of challenge. However the court rejected the council's appeal against the judge's decision that it was not entitled to charge the claimant for providing the care home albeit that she had been awarded damages to pay for such care. Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation
Summary: Whether mental health professionals could be sued under the Human Rights Act where they had made mistakes but there was no claim in negligence. Chief Constable of Hertfordshire v Van Colle; Smith v Chief Constable of Sussex
Summary: Conjoined appeals. In the absence of special circumstances, the police owed no common law duty of care to protect individuals against harm caused by criminals. Smith v Chief Constable of Sussex
Summary: Claim by a victim of an assault who alleged that the police negligently failed to protect him. Peters v Nottingham Health Authority & Anor
Summary: Damages; assessment; cost of care. The case assessed the damages payable to a claimant with congenital rubella syndrome following an admission of liability by an NHS Trust and a GP. Held that as a matter of law the council had no power to take account of any capital sum held by the Court of Protection, any income generated by that capital or any payments of that capital on behalf of the claimant. However, the future provision to the claimant and the council's legal responsibility for providing it were uncertain. Cost of future care awarded on a full life basis. Young v Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) and others
Summary: Case concerned limitation, abuse, and the date of knowledge provisions. The House of Lords concluded that a construction of the legislation which had been reached by the Court of Appeal in Bryn Alyn that allowed a generous interpretation was wrong so that the claimant was held to have had knowledge of the abuse at the time that it occurred. Van Colle v Chief Constable of Hertfordshire
Summary: The Court of Appeal held that the police had been under a duty to take preventative measures to protect Giles Van Colle and had breached that duty. They had therefore acted incompatibly with the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 Art 2. The judge's damages award at first instance under the Human Rights Act 1998 s8 had been too high and should be reduced. Appiah & Anor v Bishop Douglass Roman Catholic High School Governors
Summary: The Court of Appeal found that in claims of race discrimination and victimisation, the mere establishment of a difference of race and treatment was not enough to cause the burden of proof to be transferred under the Race Relations Act 1976 s. 57ZA, and if a claimant had not at least established facts from which a prima facie case of discrimination could be inferred R (on the application of Jane Laporte) v Chief Constable of Gloucestershire
Summary: Police decision to turn back coaches from RAF/USAF airbase - scope of police powers to control public demonstrations - effect of Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 sections 60 and section 60AA - whether action short of arrest justified when breach of the peace not sufficiently imminent to justify arrest - whether Albert v Lavin still good law - whether police had shown the least restriction necessary to rights of freedom of speech and peaceful assembly under ECHR articles (10) and (11) - whether preventive action against innocent person justified where no other means of preventing imminent breach of the peace. A (1) B (2) & Ors v Nugent Care Society (formerly Catholic Social Service (Liverpool))
Summary: Any claimant seeking to claim damages by way of an action in negligence for sexual abuse suffered in the 1960s and 1970s had formidable forensic hurdles to surmount, not helped by the absence of any specifically tailored limitation statute and it was only on a case by case basis that limitation findings could be made. However, in relation to one of the claimants relief was granted in accordance with the Limitation Act 1980 s. 33 on the basis that the care society in whose care he was placed had failed to put into place adequate systems to protect that claimant from abuse by his headmaster and had therefore failed to fulfil their duty of care to him. Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) (1) Home Office (2) v Kevin Raymond Young
Summary: The test under the Limitation Act 1980 s. 14(2) to determine when a person would reasonably have considered an injury to be sufficiently serious to justify his instituting proceedings for damages was an objective one. That a person was inhibited by the injury itself from instituting proceedings was a factor to be taken into account. Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) & Anor v Young
Summary: The test under the Limitation Act 1980 s. 14(2) to determine when a person would reasonably have considered an injury to be sufficiently serious to justify his instituting proceedings for damages was an objective one. That a person was inhibited by the injury itself from instituting proceedings was a factor to be taken into account. KR & Ors v Royal & Sun Alliance Plc
Summary: The true intention of an exclusion clause in a combined insurance policy issued to a company that ran children’s homes was to exclude liability for damage or injury caused by deliberate acts of persons who were to be regarded as in effect the insured company, as opposed to the acts of those who were mere employees. The deliberate acts of abuse by the majority shareholder and managing director fell to be attributed to the company and were within the exclusion as were the acts of those who were at the time of the abuse directors or de facto heads of the individual homes. Those were “managerial employees” but that expression did not include anyone further down the company hierarchy. Department for Transport, Environment & the Regions v Mott Macdonald Ltd & Ors
Summary: A highway authority’s duty to maintain under the Highways Act 1980 s. 41(1) included keeping relevant drains clear, and Burnside v Emerson (1968) 1 WLR 1490 was still good law. Ashley & Anor v Chief Constable of Sussex
Summary: The Court of Appeal held that a defendant could rely on self-defence to a claim for damages for assault and battery if he showed that he mistakenly but reasonably and honestly thought that it was necessary to defend himself against attach or an imminent risk of attach, and that the force he used was reasonable. French & Ors v Chief Constable of Sussex
Summary: The Court of Appeal held that claims by police officers for psychiatric injuries allegedly suffered as a result of a fatal shooting, which they had not witnessed, and which had led to criminal and disciplinary proceedings against them that had led to stress and the injuries complained of, were struck out on the basis that they were bound to fail on grounds of causation and remoteness. Ali v Lord Grey School
Summary: The House of Lords held that the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 Protocol 1 Art. 2 did not confer a right to be educated at a particular school but rather conferred a right not to be denied access to the general level of educational provision available in the Member State. On the evidence a pupil had not been excluded from school education in breach of his Convention rights in circumstances where he had chosen not to take up the school’s invitation to attend a meeting to re-admit him to the school, nor its offers to provide work for him to do from home and to arrange alternative tuition. Clough v First Choice Holidays & Flights Ltd
Summary: In cases of personal injury involving a single, specific occasion of negligence the claimant was required to show that the defendant’s negligence caused, or materially contributed to, the injury. The distinction between material contribution to damage and material contribution to the risk of damage had no application in those circumstances. Brown v Birmingham & Black Country Strategic Health Authority & Ors
Summary: Notwithstanding the claimant's symptoms, neither her doctor nor medical staff at a hospital where she was examined were at fault for failing to diagnose and treat a congenital spinal defect that resulted in her contracting meningitis and subsequently suffering from a disability. Walton v Calderdale Healthcare NHS Trust
Summary: Where a claimant had established that his reasonable care needs required annual periodic payments at a set rate, an onus was placed on the defendant to show that local authorities could wholly or partially satisfy the claimant’s reasonable needs before there could be any reduction to the set rate. JD & Ors v East Berkshire Community Health NHS Trust & Ors
Summary: Health professionals responsible for investigating suspected child abuse did not owe a parent suspected of having committed the abuse a duty sounding in damages if they carried out that investigation in good faith but carelessly. W v Westminster City Council & Ors
Summary: Where a local authority had pleaded qualified privilege in defending itself and its social workers against a claim in defamation, the relationship between the social workers was an established one requiring free and frank communication on all relevant questions, and the fact that the information in the words was not verified could not take the care outside qualified privilege unless the defendants were deliberately publishing what they knew to be outside official guidance known to them. Although the publication was an interference with the claimant’s rights under the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 Art. 8, monetary compensation was not required to afford him just satisfaction. DN (by his father and litigation friend RN) v Greenwich London Borough
Summary: A local education authority was liable for the negligence of an educational psychologist who had failed, among other things, to identify the claimant Godden & Ors v Kent & Medway Strategic Health Authority
Summary: It was arguable that a health authority could be held vicariously liable for the acts of a general practitioner who had indecently assaulted and possibly negligently treated his patients, and on that basis a claim for damages brought against the health authority by the patients concerned was not struck out as having no reasonable grounds. Eagle v Chambers
Summary: In the circumstances, no sum was awarded regarding panel brokers’ fees, which would be incurred by the claimant on investment advice sought following receipt of an award of damages. The fact that the claimant was a patient did not affect that conclusion. Adams v Bracknell Forest Borough Council
Summary: There was no reason why the normal expectation that a person suffering from a significant injury would be curious about its origins should not also apply to dyslexics. Therefore, on the facts of the instant case, the claimant’s date of constructive knowledge was well before three years before issue of the writ and his claim was thus statute-barred under the Limitation Act 1980 s. 11. Taylor v Nugent Care Society (formerly Catholic Social Services, Liverpool)
Summary: It was not an abuse of process of the court for a claimant to proceed with his claim notwithstanding that he had commenced proceedings that raised issues covered by a group litigation order and was refused permission to join the group action out of time. If the claimant brought proceedings that ran parallel to the group action, the court was entitled to manage the proceedings in a way that took account of directions enforced upon the parties to the group action. A (1) B (2) v Essex County Council
Summary: It was not fair, just and reasonable to impose on professionals involved in compiling reports for adoption agencies a duty of care towards prospective adopters. However, adoption agencies had a duty to communicate to prospective adopters information which the agencies decided that they should have. McDonnell v Congregation of Christian Brothers
Summary: The appellant Various Claimants v Bryn Alyn Community (Holdings) Ltd (In Liquidation) & Anor
Summary: Where the Court of Appeal was dealing with an appeal and then an appeal ancillary to the main appeal on issues under CPR Part 36, the sealing of the order on the main appeal did not preclude the court considering whether Part 36 orders should be made in favour of three claimants not previously made party to the Part 35 appeal. Bradford-Smart v West Sussex County Council
Summary: An unsuccessful appeal from a finding that a local authority was not in breach of its duty to a school pupil by failing to prevent the pupil from being bullied outside school. However, the Court of Appeal recognised that a school might occasionally be in breach of duty for failing to take steps within its power to combat the harmful behaviour of one pupil towards another outside school. Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd & Ors; and associated cases.
Summary: Where a claimant had suffered asbestos-induced mesothelioma after having been negligently exposed to asbestos dust during the course of employment with more than one employer, in circumstances where he could not prove which defendant’s breach of duty was the cause of the disease, it was sufficient for a claimant to prove that a defendant materially increased the risk of injury. Such a claimant did not have to satisfy the “but for” causation test. Johnson v Unisys Ltd
Summary: The decision of the House of Lords in Addis v Gramophone Co Ltd (1909) AC 488 was not itself an obstacle to the recovery by an employee of damages for injured feelings, mental distress or damage to his reputation arising out of the manner of his dismissal where the cause of action relied upon was breach of an implied term concerning trust and confidence, rather than wrongful dismissal. However, such a newly-developed common law right could not satisfactorily coexist with the statutory right of an employee not to be unfairly dismissed. L (A Minor) (1) P (Father) (2) v Reading Borough Council (1) Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police (2)
Summary: It was arguable that there was sufficient proximity in an interview between a police officer and a suspected child victim for a duty of care to have arisen. It was also arguable that a suspect was owed a duty of care where there had been no evidence to support criminal proceedings yet a police officer had concluded that a complaint of child abuse was of sufficient substance that the child was at risk of abuse from the suspect. Further, it was arguable that witness immunity should not have been used to shield the police from suit whilst acting as law enforcers or investigators and a decision to the contrary could have been disproportionate to the public interest both under common law and the jurisprudence of the Convention. Phelps v Hillingdon London Borough Council; and associated cases
Summary: A local education authority could be vicariously liable for the negligent acts and omissions of its employees, including educational psychologists and teachers, that caused loss, injury or damage to their students. W & Ors v Essex County Council & Anor
Summary: The issue in a strike out application was whether, if the facts were proved, the claim must still fail, and it was not enough to recognise that the claimants might have difficulties in establishing their claim. Foster parents who claimed psychiatric illness due to the abuse of their children by a child placed in their care by the council, could pursue their claim for damages against the council and social worker to trial. Kent v Griffiths & Ors
Summary: An ambulance service could owe a duty of care to a member of the public on whose behalf a 999 call had been made if the ambulance failed to arrive within a reasonable time through carelessness. Penney & Anor v East Kent Health Authority
Summary: Where the evidence established that cervical smear slides showed clear abnormalities, no reasonably competent primary cytoscreener could treat those abnormalities as innocuous such as to justify, with absolute confidence, a negative result. The trial judge necessarily had an advantage over an appellate court in assessing the weight to be attached to expert evidence and, in cases such as the present, the appellate court should be careful to ensure that it acted as a court of review. Capital & Counties Plc v Hampshire County Council & Ors; and associated cases
Summary: A fire brigade owes no duty of care to the owner of a burning building to turn up at the fire or even to perform competently when it is actually at the scene of the fire although there is a sufficiently proximate relationship between individual fire officers and the owner/occupier to give rise to a duty of care on their part when performing their duties at the scene. X (Minors) v Bedfordshire County Council; and associated cases
Summary: The rights of individuals to seek private law remedies for breaches of public law duties did not arise unless it could be shown that the statute creating the duty also intended a remedy and that the exercise of the discretion was outside the ambit of the discretion created by statute.