Tort Defences | Cases

Contributory Negligence

Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945

Yachuk v Oliver Blais Co Ltd [1949] AC 386

Lane v Holloway [1968] 1 QB 379

Jones v Livox Quarries [1952] 2 QB 608 Important

Froom v Butcher [1976] QB 286

Reeves v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [2000] 1 AC 360

Fitzgerald v Lane [1989] AC 328

St George v Home Office [2008] EWCA Civ 1068

Co-operative Group Ltd v Pritchard [2011] EWCA Civ 329

Jackson v Murray [2015] UKSC 5

Volenti Non Fit Injuria

Imperial Chemical Industries v Shatwell [1965] AC 656

Nettleship v Weston [1971] 2 QB 691

Morris v Murray [1991] 2 QB 6

Reeves v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [2000] AC 360 Important

Corr v IBC Vehicles [2008] 2 WLR 499

Road Traffic Act 1988, section 149

Illegality

Pitts v Hunt [1991] 1 QB 24

Gray v Thames Trains Ltd [2009] 1 AC 1339 Important

Delaney v Pickett [2011] EWCA Civ 1532

Joyce v O’Brien [2013] EWCA Civ 546

Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42

Henderson v Dorset University NHS Trust [2016] EWHC 3275

Stoffel & Co. v Grondona [2020] UKSC 42