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Fatal Accident Claims: The past is a foreign country
David Regan considers the basis of awards and common pitfalls ‘The Fatal Accidents Act 1976 serves a very important purpose: to protect the rights of dependants who are the secondary victims of torts that have resulted in death.’ The opening line of LP Hartley’s The Go-Between (1953), ‘The past is a foreign country, they do …
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- Cookson v Knowles [1978] UKHL 3
- Cooper v Williams [1963] 2 QB 567
- Cox v Hockenhull [2000] PIQR Q230
- Croke v Wiseman [1981] 3 All ER 852
- Dodds v Dodds [1978] QB 543
- Drew v Abassi (1995) unreported CA 24 May
- Duller v South East Lincolnshire Engineers [1981] CLY 585
- Farmer v Rolls Royce (2003) unreported QBD 26 February
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- Kandalla v British European Airways [1980] 1 All ER 341
- Kotke v Saffarini [2005] EWCA Civ 221
- Malyon v Plummer [1964] 1 QB 330
- Owen v Martin [1992] PIQR Q151
- Pidduck v Eastern Scottish Omnibuses Ltd [1990] 1 WLR 993
- Stanley v Saddique [1992] QB 1 (CA)
- Thompson v Arnold [2007] EWHC 1875 (QB)
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- Wood v Bentall Simplex Ltd [1992] PIQR P332