Pride Valley Foods Ltd v Hall and Partners: TCC 4 May 2000

TCC Contract – Project Management – Role of Quantity Surveyor acting as Project Manager – Duty to warn clients of fire hazards – Causation – Contributory Negligence – Test whether defendants are Partnership or Limited Company – role of experts in relation to evidence of Project Management

Judges:

John Toulmin CMG QC

Citations:

[2001] 76 Con LR 1, [2000] EWHC Technology 106

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945

Citing:

ApprovedKerry v Carter CA 1969
The court considered the apportionment of responsibility under the 1945 Act.
Lord Denning MR said: ‘We have been referred to cases on this subject, particularly the recent case of Brown v Thompson [1968] 1 WLR 1003. Since that case it seems to . .

Cited by:

CitedJackson v Murray and Another SC 18-Feb-2015
Child not entirely free of responsibility
The claimant child, left a school bus and stepped out from behind it into the path of the respondent’s car. She appealed against a finding of 70% contributory negligence.
Held: Her appeal succeeded (Majority, Lord Hodge and Lord Wilson . .
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Negligence, Construction

Updated: 13 June 2022; Ref: scu.201811