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Concurrent LiabilityIn the present case, hurricanes in America had led to unprecedented losses for insurers. If one says categorically, as we recognize Iacobucci J. to say, that where the contract bargains with a matter expressly, the correct to sue in tort vanishes altogether, then the latter two possibilities vanish. It is untrue that a contradiction of the tort duty by the contract completely negates the tort duty instead, the tort duty is diminished to the extent that it is contradicted by the contract (BG Checo, para 16).

To illustrate the similarities and differences among actions in contract and tort, I will be taking two possible claims for a case study: construction negligence (primarily based upon a failure to take care when constructing a developing) and solicitor negligence (based upon a failure to advise with regards to the existence of third celebration rights on a piece of land).

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Joshua Brown by — October 28, 2016 in Concurrent Liability
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In Wellesley Partners LLP v Withers LLP 2015 EWCA Civ 1146, a solicitors’ negligence case, the Court of Appeal considered, for the initially time, what rule of remoteness of damage applies in situations where there is concurrent liability in contract and in tort. Certainly, whilst the criteria of reasonable foreseeability and affordable reliance serve to distinguish cases exactly where a prima facie duty is owed from those where it is not, it is nevertheless true that in particular sorts of scenarios these criteria can, very quickly, be happy and absent some indicates by which to circumscribe the ambit of the duty, the prospect of limitless liability will loom.

Additional lately, the courts have in a quantity of cases restricted the ability of parties to rely on concurrent tortious duties in establishing a claim, especially in construction disputes. Remoteness in contract is governed by the decision in Hadley v Baxendale (1854) 9 Ex 341 which … Read the rest >>>

Joshua Brown by — May 10, 2015 in Concurrent Liability