“A fire obsessed teenager has been jailed for life after being found guilty of starting a blaze that killed four siblings while he was ‘out of his head’ on a lethal cocktail of cannabis and alcohol.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Dyson Allen, 19, faces prison sentence after being found guilty of manslaughter of four siblings in Lancashire.”
The Guardian, 24th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A serious case review will be launched after three generations of the same family were murdered in a house fire.”
BBC News, 19th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The families of the six people who died in the Lakanal House fire are taking legal action for compensation, BBC London has learned.”
BBC News, 4th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Milton Keynes Borough Council v Nulty, decd and others [2013] EWCA Civ 15; [2013] WLR (D) 25
“There was no rule of law that if the only other possible causes of an event were very much less likely than one suggested means of causation, that became the probable cause; the court had to be satisfied on rational and objective grounds that the case for believing that the suggested means of causation occurred was stronger than the case for not so believing.”
WLR Daily, 24th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“For anyone concerned as to whether a professional appointment imposes a duty guaranteeing or warranting a successful outcome the Court of Appeal decision in Trebor Bassett Holdings Limited -and- The Cadbury UK Partnership v. ADT Fire and Security Plc (2012) EWCA Civ 1158 provides invaluable assistance.”
Zenith Chambers, 14th November 2012
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
“Arthur Moore considers the liability of landlords in instances of fire damage.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 11th October 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“Deirdre Malone on an inquest into the tragic deaths of family members killed in a house fire, and the lessons to be learned.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 30th October 2012
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“Does the landlord’s repairing duty under Section 11 Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 extend to damage by fire, flood or tempest?”
NearlyLegal, 24th October 2012
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“The repairing obligations imposed on the landlord of a ‘dwelling-house’ by s.11(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 are well known: the landlord must keep in repair the structure and exterior of the dwelling-house, as well as the installations within it.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 11th August 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
Gore v Stannard (trading as Wyvern Tyres) [2012] EWCA Civ 1248; [2012] WLR (D) 266
“Where a party brought a claim relying on the strict liability rule under Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330, the claim being founded on an outbreak of fire said to be caused by another party having brought a ‘thing’ on to his land which then ‘escaped’, close attention would have to be given to the precise ‘thing’ which was said to have ‘escaped’ when analysing whether the principles relied on in fact applied. It remained a moot point whether there was any room for the classic principles to be reformulated in fire cases.”
WLR Daily, 4th October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The best part of a thousand years of law has been distilled into this scholarly resolution by the CA of an age old problem. Who pays for the consequences of an accidentally caused fire – the landowner where the fire started or the neighbour who suffered the loss?”
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th October 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A man has won a legal battle over an insurance company’s refusal to pay up for a fire it claimed was deliberately started by his partner.”
The Independent, 17th September 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Not living full-time in your home can invalidate your insurance, as one couple found out when fire devastated their property during renovation work.”
BBC News, 2nd September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“It is well known that on exchange of contracts for the purchase of land, title to the property vests in the buyer in equity, so that the buyer is immediately at risk if there is damage to the property. This can be a trap. If, for example, the property is damaged by fire between exchange and completion, the buyer is bound to complete without reduction in price: Poole v Adams (1864) 10 LT 287.”
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New Square Chambers, January 2012
Source: www.newsquarechambers.co.uk
“A packaging firm has been fined £90,000 after two workers were seriously injured in a fireball at a factory in Cumbria.”
BBC News, 18th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The owners of a Cornish hotel destroyed by fire have been fined £80,000 and ordered to pay £62,000 costs for failing to meet fire safety standards.”
BBC News, 4th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Companies owned by oil giants BP, Shell and Total were fined a total of £5.35m today for their involvement in the Buncefield oil storage depot explosion and fire ‑ the worst of its kind since the second world war.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It has taken five years, but today the companies whose negligence caused the biggest fire ever seen in Europe in peacetime and almost destroyed a thriving community around the Buncefield oil depot will face justice.”
The Independent, 16th July 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An international waste management company has been fined £150,000 after a major chemical fire closed two motorways in Lancashire.”
BBC News, 9th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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