[2000] UKHL 41, [2000] 1 WLR 1545, [2000] 4 All ER 268
Case history
Prior action(s)
[2000] 1 Lloyd's Rep 139
Court membership
Judge(s) sitting
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Steyn, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hope of Craighead and Lord Hobhouse of Woodborough
Keywords
Tort, corporate veil, duty of care, forum non conveniens, group of companies
Lubbe v Cape Plc [2000] UKHL 41 is a conflict of laws case, which is also highly significant for the question of lifting the corporate veil in relation to tort victims. In this case it was alleged, and postulated by the House of Lords, that in principle it is possible to show that a parent company owes a direct duty of care in tort to anybody injured by a subsidiary company in a group.
LubbevCapePlc [2000] UKHL 41 is a conflict of laws case, which is also highly significant for the question of lifting the corporate veil in relation...
limited by the House of Lords decision in LubbevCapeplc and the groundbreaking decision in Chandler vCapeplc, holding that a direct duty may be owed...
lords ruled in LubbevCapeplc that Cape owed a duty of care to the employees of its subsidiary and allowed the case to proceed. Cape subsequently settled...
Chandler vCapeplc [2012] EWCA Civ 525 is a decision of the Court of Appeal which addresses the availability of damages for a tort victim from a parent...
Lord Neuberger) e.g. Daimler v Continental Tyre and Re FG Films Ltd e.g. LubbevCapePlc See further, E McGaughey, 'Donoghue v Salomon in the High Court'...
industrialization and commercialization of asbestos throughout the country. The LubbevCapePlc case [2000] UKHL 41 is a conflict of laws case, which is also significant...
Connelly v RTZ Corp Plc [1998] AC 854 LubbevCapePlc [2000] 1 WLR 1545 Chandler vCapeplc [2011] EWHC 951 (QB) held that a parent company (Capeplc) owed...
'Donoghue v Salomon in the High Court' (2011) 4 Journal of Personal Injury Law 249, on SSRN. See also Connelly v RTZ Corp Plc [1998] AC 854 and LubbevCape Plc...
another v Barlow and another and one other action [2000] UKHL 16 Lubbe and others vCapeplc and related appeals [2000] UKHL 41 Miah and others v Khan [2000]...
International. These decisions were approved at the subsequent SI Congress in Cape Town in 2012 in line with section 5.1.3 of the statutes. These were long...
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