Case brief index
Tort Law
73 cases organised by topic.
Trespass to Person and Related Matters
- Vosburg v. Putney, 80 Wis. 523, 50 N.W. 403
- Letang v. Cooper, [1965] 1 QB 232
- Fowler v. Lanning, [1959] 1 QB 426
- Cole v. Turner, (1704) 6 Mod. 149; 87 Eng. Rep. 907
- Wilkinson v. Downton, [1897] 2 QB 57
- Murray v. Ministry of Defence, [1988] 2 All ER 521; [1988] 1 WLR 692
- Rhodes v. OPO, [2015] UKSC 32; [2016] AC 219
Trespass to Land, Chattels and Conversion
Defences to Intentional Torts
Negligence
- Donoghue v. Stevenson, [1932] AC 562; [1932] All ER Rep. 1
- Caparo Industries plc v. Dickman, [1990] 2 AC 605; [1990] UKHL 2
- Robinson v. Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, [2018] UKSC 4; [2018] AC 736
- Muhammad Riaz Khan v. Commissioner of Correctional Services, [2017] 5 HKLRD 379
- Vaughan v. Menlove, (1837) 3 Bing. NC 468; 132 Eng. Rep. 490
- Brown v. Kendall, 60 Mass. 292
- Roberts v. Ring, 143 Minn. 151, 173 N.W. 437
- United States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169
- Fletcher v. City of Aberdeen, 54 Wash. 2d 174, 338 P.2d 743
- Blyth v. Birmingham Waterworks Co., (1856) 11 Exch. 781; 156 Eng. Rep. 1047
- Stone v. Bolton, [1950] 1 KB 201
- Bolton v. Stone, [1951] AC 850
- Scott v. Shepherd, (1773) 2 Wm. Bl. 892; 96 Eng. Rep. 525
- Minor Veeran v. T.V. Krishnamoorthy, AIR 1966 Ker 172
- Barnett v. Chelsea and Kensington Hospital Management Committee, [1969] 1 QB 428
- Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd. v. Morts Dock & Engineering Co. Ltd. (The Wagon Mound No. 1), [1961] AC 388
- Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee, [1957] 1 WLR 582
- Bolitho v. City and Hackney Health Authority, [1998] AC 232
- Montgomery v. Lanarkshire Health Board, [2015] UKSC 11; [2015] AC 1430
- Laxman Balkrishna Joshi v. Trimbak Bapu Godbole, AIR 1969 SC 128; (1969) 1 SCR 206
- Philips India Ltd. v. Kunju Punnu, AIR 1975 Bom 306; (1974) 77 Bom LR 337
- A.S. Mittal v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1989) 3 SCC 223
- McFarlane v. Tayside Health Board, [2000] 2 AC 59
- Jacob Mathew v. State of Punjab, (2005) 6 SCC 1
- Kusum Sharma v. Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre, (2010) 3 SCC 480
Defences and Claimant Conduct in Negligence
- Smith v. Charles Baker & Sons, [1891] AC 325
- South Indian Industrial Ltd., Madras v. Alamelu Ammal, AIR 1923 Mad 565
- Haynes v. Harwood, [1935] 1 KB 146
- Ramchandraram Nagaram Rice and Oil Mills Ltd. v. Municipal Commissioners of Purulia Municipality, AIR 1943 Pat 408
- Manindra Nath Mukherjee v. Mathuradas Chatturbhuj, AIR 1946 Cal 175
- Hall v. Brooklands Auto-Racing Club, [1933] 1 KB 205
- T.C. Balakrishnan Menon v. T.R. Subramanian, AIR 1968 Ker 151
- Smt. Vidya Devi v. Madhya Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation, AIR 1975 MP 89
- Morris v. Murray, [1991] 2 QB 6; [1990] 3 All ER 801
- Breunig v. American Family Insurance Co., 45 Wis. 2d 536, 173 N.W.2d 619
Strict Liability, Absolute Liability and Mass Torts
- Rylands v. Fletcher, (1868) LR 3 HL 330
- Rickards v. Lothian, [1913] AC 263
- Read v. J. Lyons & Co. Ltd., [1947] AC 156
- Cambridge Water Co. Ltd. v. Eastern Counties Leather plc, [1994] 2 AC 264
- Transco plc v. Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, [2003] UKHL 61; [2004] 2 AC 1
- M.C. Mehta v. Union of India, AIR 1987 SC 1086; (1987) 1 SCC 395
- Union Carbide Corporation v. Union of India, (1989) 1 SCC 674
Defamation, Privacy and Freedom of the Press
- Hough v. London Express Newspaper Ltd., [1940] 2 KB 507; [1940] 3 All ER 31
- Petra Ecclestone v. Telegraph Media Group Ltd., [2009] EWHC 2779 (QB)
- Huth v. Huth, [1915] 3 KB 32
- Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Pvt. Ltd. v. Jagmohan Mundhara, AIR 1985 Bom 229
- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254
- R. Rajagopal v. State of Tamil Nadu, (1994) 6 SCC 632
- Sim v. Stretch, [1936] 2 All ER 1237
- Tolley v. J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd., [1931] AC 333
- Abdul Wahab Galadari v. Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Pvt. Ltd., AIR 1994 Bom 69
- Govind Shantaram Walavalkar v. Pandharinath Shivaram Rege, AIR 1985 Bom 224
- Nishi Prem v. Javed Akhtar, AIR 1988 Bom 222