Tort Law Materials
The following is a list of all the cases that were lectured on the Tort Law Summer School,
which is a slightly shorter list than was in the course materials. You may refer to further cases
if you know them to earn extra credit. You do not need to give the citation, just the name of
the case.
After this comes the list of the Statutes. You need not write out the words of a provision in
order to use it, but you should apply the rules it gives, the same as you do with cases.
Bradford v Pickles [1895] AC 587
Ashley v Chief Constable of Sussex Police [2008] 2 WLR 975
Anchor Brewhouse Developments Ltd v Berkley House (1987) 38 Building LR 82
Edwards v. Sims 24 SW 2d 619 (1929) (Kentucky Court of Appeals)
St Helens Smelting Co v Tipping (1865) 11 HLC 642
Wheeler v Saunders [1996] Ch 19
Kennaway v Thompson [1981] QB 88
Dennis v Ministry of Defence [2003] EWHC 793 (QB)
Hollywood Silver Fox Farm v Emmet [1936] 2 KB 468
Sedleigh-Denfield v O'Callaghan [1940] AC 880
Rylands v Fletcher (1866) LR 1 Exch 265 and (1868) LR 3 HL 330
Transco plc v Stockport MBC [2004] 2 AC 1
Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562, esp. 578-583
Gorringe v Calderdale MBC [2004] 1 WLR 1057
Mulcahy v Ministry of Defence [1996] QB 732
Dulieu v White & Sons [1901] 2 KB 669
Mulcahy v Ministry of Defence [1996] QB 732
McKay v Essex AHA [1982] 1 QB 1166
Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1992] 1 AC 310
White (Frost) v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1999] 2 AC 455
Hedley Byrne v Heller [1964] AC 465
Spartan Steel v Martin [1973] 1 QB 27
Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd [1998] 1 WLR 830
Smith v Eric S Bush [1990] 1 AC 831
Spring v Guardian Assurance [1995] 2 AC 296
White v Jones [1995] 2 AC 207
Customs & Excise Commissioners v Barclays Bank [2006] 3 WLR 1
Haley v London Electricity Board [1965] AC 778
Tomlinson v Congleton BC [2004] 1 AC 46
Kaye v Robertson [1991] Fleet Street Reports 62
Berkoff v Burchill [1996] 4 All ER 1008
Derbyshire CC v Times Newspapers [1993] AC 534
Barnett v Chelsea & Kensington Hospital Management Committee [1969] 1 QB 428
Smith v Leech Brain [1962] 2 QB 405
Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd [2003] 1 AC 32
Barker v Corus [2006] 2 AC 572
Sienkiewicz (Administratrix, Estate of E. Costello Deceased) v Greif [2011] UKSC 10
Gregg v Scott [2005] 2 AC 176
Chester v Afshar [2005] 1 AC 134
Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2000] AC 360
Re Polemis [1921] 3 KB 560
Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v Miller Steamship Co Pty, The Wagon Mound [1967] 1 AC
617 cf. Overseas Tankship (U.K.) Ltd. v The Miller Steamship Co. Pty [1967] 1 AC 617, i.e.,
Wagon Mound (No 1) cf. Wagon Mound (No 2).
Hughes v Lord Advocate [1963] AC 837
Rookes v Barnard [1964] AC 1129
Lagden v. O’Connor [2004] 1 AC 1067
South Australia Asset Management Corp v. York Montague [1997] AC 191 (known as
“SAAMCO”)
Pitts v Hunt [1991] 2 QB 24
Revill v Newbury [1996] QB 567
Vellino v CC of Greater Manchester [2002] 1 WLR 218
Gray v Thames Trains [2009] UKHL 33; [2009] 1 A.C. 1339
Reeves v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [2000] 1 AC 360
ICI v Shatwell [1965] AC 656
Nettleship v Weston [1971] 2 QB 691