Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

31, 2023), plaintiffs owned a restaurant in defendant City. This suit followed, asserting several contract and property claims, as well as a tort claim for intentional interference with business relationships. The trial court dismissed the tort claim against the City pursuant to the GTLA, and dismissal was affirmed on appeal.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2023

The UK Supreme Court ruled that the cause of action in the aftermath of the 2011 Bonga offshore oil spill accrued at the moment when the oil reached the shore. They rule that the cause of action had accrued at the moment when the spilled oil had reached the shore. This was a one-off event and not a continuing nuisance.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 16, 2024

For example, in the English case of Boys v Chaplin , the House of Lords was unable to provide a coherent ratio decidendi due to differing opinions regarding the law applicable to torts when applying English law to heads of damages.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 29, 2023

In fact, Kea had originally advanced a cause of action for abuse of process, claiming that the alleged fraud was an abuse of process of the Kentucky Court. The Court has set aside the protest to jurisdiction ( Kea Investments Ltd v Wikeley Family Trustee Limited [2023] NZHC 466).

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The New Zealand Court of Appeal has just released a judgment on the cross-border application of New Zealand consumer and fair trading legislation ( Body Corporate Number DPS 91535 v 3A Composites GmbH [2023] NZCA 647 ). They alleged negligence, breach of s 6 of the CGA and breaches of the FTA.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

For privacy infringement, previous actions had been brought under the cause of action of breach of confidence [11] , which is a claim in equity and, thus it was unclear whether for such actions jurisdiction lies at the place of where the damage occurs. 24] This Review is due in 2023.

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