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Tort Distinguished From Other Legal Concepts |
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1 | (1) |
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1 | (2) |
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3 | (2) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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7 | (1) |
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Reception Of The Law Of Torts In The Caribbean |
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7 | (1) |
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8 | (1) |
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8 | (1) |
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8 | (1) |
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9 | (1) |
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9 | (1) |
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9 | (1) |
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9 | (1) |
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9 | (1) |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (42) |
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11 | (1) |
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Assault and battery distinguished |
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11 | (1) |
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12 | (1) |
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13 | (1) |
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13 | (1) |
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Defences To Assault And Battery |
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14 | (1) |
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Defence of person or property |
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14 | (2) |
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Parents' and teachers' authority |
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16 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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Assessment Of Damages For Assault And Battery |
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17 | (2) |
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19 | (7) |
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26 | (1) |
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26 | (2) |
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28 | (2) |
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Arrest on reasonable suspicion |
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30 | (5) |
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Other statutory powers of arrest |
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35 | (5) |
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Statutory protection for constables |
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40 | (1) |
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Procedure during and after arrest |
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41 | (5) |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (2) |
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Assessment of damages for false imprisonment |
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49 | (4) |
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53 | (20) |
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53 | (2) |
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55 | (1) |
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Institution of prosecution |
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56 | (3) |
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Termination of prosecution in claimant's favour |
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59 | (1) |
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Absence of reasonable and probable cause |
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60 | (2) |
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62 | (5) |
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Section 33 of the Constabulary Force Act (Jamaica) |
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67 | (2) |
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69 | (1) |
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Extension to malicious institution of civil proceedings |
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70 | (3) |
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73 | (79) |
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73 | (1) |
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73 | (1) |
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73 | (4) |
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77 | (8) |
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85 | (1) |
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85 | (4) |
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The seriousness of the injury that is risked |
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89 | (1) |
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The importance or utility of the defendant's activity |
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90 | (5) |
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The cost and practicability of measures to avoid the harm |
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95 | (1) |
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Intelligence, Knowledge And Skill Of The Reasonable Man |
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96 | (1) |
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96 | (1) |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (6) |
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103 | (4) |
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Proof Of Negligence - Res Ipsa Loquitur |
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107 | (1) |
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Requirements of the doctrine |
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107 | (6) |
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113 | (1) |
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Skids, tyre bursts and latent defects |
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114 | (8) |
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122 | (1) |
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122 | (3) |
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125 | (1) |
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Other rules regarding remoteness |
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125 | (1) |
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125 | (3) |
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The `egg-shell skull' principle |
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128 | (4) |
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Liability For Economic Loss |
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132 | (1) |
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Negligent misstatement causing economic loss |
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133 | (11) |
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Other cases of liability for economic loss |
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144 | (4) |
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Liability For Psychiatric Injury |
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148 | (4) |
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152 | (16) |
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The Occupiers' Liability Acts |
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152 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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153 | (1) |
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153 | (1) |
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154 | (2) |
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156 | (1) |
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156 | (1) |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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158 | (3) |
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161 | (2) |
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163 | (3) |
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166 | (2) |
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168 | (11) |
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Personal Duty Of Employer At Common Law |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (1) |
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Adequate plant and equipment |
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169 | (2) |
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Safe system of working and effective supervision |
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171 | (1) |
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172 | (2) |
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174 | (3) |
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177 | (2) |
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179 | (31) |
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Public And Private Nuisance |
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179 | (1) |
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179 | (2) |
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181 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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Substantial interference with enjoyment of land |
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183 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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Utility of the defendant's conduct |
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184 | (1) |
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Claimant's abnormal sensitivity |
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185 | (1) |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (14) |
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200 | (1) |
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200 | (2) |
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202 | (1) |
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202 | (1) |
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203 | (1) |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (1) |
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Nuisance and strict liability |
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205 | (1) |
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206 | (1) |
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207 | (1) |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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209 | (1) |
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8 The Rule In Rylands V Fletcher |
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210 | (16) |
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210 | (1) |
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211 | (1) |
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212 | (1) |
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212 | (1) |
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Bringing onto the land and accumulation |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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213 | (5) |
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218 | (1) |
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218 | (1) |
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219 | (1) |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (4) |
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224 | (1) |
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225 | (1) |
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226 | (24) |
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226 | (1) |
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Liability For Cattle Trespass |
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226 | (2) |
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228 | (1) |
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Parties to an action in cattle trespass |
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228 | (2) |
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Trespass from the highway |
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230 | (1) |
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Liability For Dangerous Animals (The Scienter Action) |
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230 | (3) |
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233 | (1) |
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234 | (1) |
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Scienter in the Caribbean |
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235 | (1) |
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236 | (8) |
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Criminal Liability where an individual is attacked by a dog |
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244 | (1) |
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245 | (5) |
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250 | (75) |
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250 | (1) |
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250 | (1) |
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250 | (1) |
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Slander Actionable Per SE |
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251 | (1) |
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251 | (2) |
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Imputation of certain diseases |
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253 | (2) |
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Imputation of unchastity or adultery |
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255 | (2) |
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Imputation affecting professional or business reputation |
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257 | (1) |
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Remoteness Of Damage In Libel And Slander |
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258 | (1) |
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259 | (1) |
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260 | (1) |
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Examples Of Defamatory Statements |
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260 | (1) |
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261 | (7) |
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Reference to the claimant |
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268 | (6) |
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274 | (7) |
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281 | (1) |
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281 | (3) |
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284 | (15) |
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299 | (4) |
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303 | (5) |
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308 | (13) |
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Assessment Of Damages In Defamation Actions |
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321 | (4) |
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325 | (22) |
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325 | (1) |
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Marketing a product as that of the claimant |
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326 | (1) |
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Imitating the `get-up' of the claimant's goods |
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326 | (5) |
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Trading under a name closely resembling that of the claimant |
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331 | (3) |
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Name so similar to claimant's trade name as to be mistaken for it |
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334 | (2) |
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Marketing goods with the trade mark of the claimant |
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336 | (2) |
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Defendant's Conduct Must Be `Calculated To Deceive' |
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338 | (2) |
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Use Of Defendant's Own Name |
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340 | (1) |
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341 | (1) |
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341 | (6) |
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347 | (14) |
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347 | (1) |
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The Nature Of Personality Rights |
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348 | (1) |
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The Infringement Of Personality Rights |
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348 | (1) |
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349 | (1) |
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349 | (3) |
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Appropriation of personality |
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352 | (3) |
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355 | (1) |
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356 | (1) |
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357 | (2) |
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Remedies for breach of personality rights |
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359 | (1) |
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359 | (2) |
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361 | (46) |
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361 | (1) |
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Servants And Independent Contractors |
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362 | (1) |
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363 | (2) |
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Commission Of A Tort By The Servant |
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365 | (1) |
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365 | (1) |
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365 | (1) |
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Manner of doing the work the servant was employed to do |
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366 | (1) |
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Authorised limits of time and place |
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366 | (2) |
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368 | (2) |
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Giving lifts to unauthorised passengers |
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370 | (4) |
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Connection with employer's business |
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374 | (11) |
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385 | (3) |
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388 | (2) |
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Vehicle Owners And Casual Agents |
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390 | (1) |
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Wholly or partly on the owner's business |
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391 | (5) |
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The Presumption Of Service Or Agency |
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396 | (4) |
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400 | (2) |
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Liability For Independent Contractors |
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402 | (1) |
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402 | (1) |
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Torts of strict liability |
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403 | (1) |
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404 | (3) |
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407 | (20) |
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407 | (1) |
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408 | (2) |
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The `agony of the moment' or `dilemma' principle |
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410 | (1) |
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411 | (1) |
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411 | (3) |
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414 | (4) |
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418 | (2) |
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420 | (1) |
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421 | (1) |
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422 | (1) |
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Essentials of volenti in negligence cases |
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423 | (1) |
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424 | (1) |
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425 | (1) |
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425 | (2) |
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15 Damages For Personal Injuries And Death |
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427 | (25) |
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427 | (1) |
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428 | (2) |
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430 | (2) |
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432 | (5) |
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437 | (5) |
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442 | (3) |
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445 | (4) |
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449 | (3) |
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16 Medical Negligence In The Commonwealth Caribbean |
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452 | (15) |
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458 | (3) |
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Failure To Warn Or To Provide Full Advice |
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461 | (4) |
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Caribbean Cases On The Duty To Warn |
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465 | (2) |
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17 The Developing Tort Of Misuse Of Private Information |
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467 | (37) |
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467 | (2) |
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469 | (1) |
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470 | (1) |
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471 | (1) |
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The information must have the necessary quality of confidence; i.e. it must not be something which is public property and public knowledge |
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472 | (7) |
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There must have been an obligation of confidence in the circumstances under which the information was imparted |
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479 | (2) |
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There must have been an unauthorised use of that information by the party communicating it, to the detriment of the confider |
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481 | (2) |
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The Influence Of Strasbourg Jurisprudence On The Development Of The Tort Of Misuse Of Private Information |
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483 | (3) |
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Significance of Von Hannover v Germany |
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486 | (4) |
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Reasonable expectation of privacy and connection with Coco v AN Clark |
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490 | (1) |
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Factual test of reasonable expectation of privacy so as to engage Art 8 |
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490 | (1) |
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Public Interest Defence: The Right To Receive And Impart Information |
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491 | (6) |
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497 | (1) |
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Measure Of Damages For Breach Of Confidence And Misuse Of Private Information |
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498 | (1) |
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498 | (3) |
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501 | (1) |
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501 | (2) |
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503 | (1) |
| Appendix: Additional Commonwealth Caribbean Cases |
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504 | (15) |
| Index |
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