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1974 WANFL season

East Perth move within half a game of the four in a match where Claremont not only lost the game by half time when they remanied goalless but also lost A$1119 in property and $458 in cash due to negligence.

1975 Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident

In June 1975, a sister of a woman who died in the crash filed a US$200 million class action lawsuit against the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, charging negligence.

49th Oklahoma Legislature

Lawsuit reform - SB 629 created a $300,000 cap on noneconomic damages for obstetric and emergency room cases except in wrongful death cases or if negligence is shown and made other changes to regulate medical liability actions.

Acts of the claimant

In Wieland v Cyril Lord Carpets (1969) 3 AER 1006 the defendant's negligence caused an injury to the claimant's neck that necessitated the wearing of a surgical collar.

Air India Flight 855

U.S. Federal District Judge James M. Fitzgerald, in a 139-page decision issued 1 November 1985, rejected charges of negligence against the Boeing Company, Lear Siegler Inc, and the Collins Division of Rockwell International Corporation in a suit related to the crash.

Alexis Nihon Plaza

In 2002, the service de sécurité incendie de Montréal was heavily blamed for negligence and incompetence according to the Cour d'Appel du Québec.

Baf Ülkü Yurdu S.K.

Due to economic underdevelopment and negligence of the Güzelyurt area, Ülkü Yurdu continued to suffer from inconsistency during the early 2000s.

Battle of Grocka


Fieldmarshal Wallis, charged with negligence, was court-martialled and condemned to imprisonment in the castle of Spielberg.

Berndt Röder

Röder made calls to the privy councils of the state ministry of environment, and state ministry of interior, and to the municipal councillor of Hamburg-Nord borough, Röder complained about the city's negligence not clearing the street—where he resided—of glaze ice.

Bioče derailment

Minister of Transport Andrija Lompar and Director of Montenegro Railways Ranko Medenica immediately resigned over the accident, and train driver Slobodan Drobnjak was arrested on suspicion of negligence.

Brooke Freeman

Sarah Potts (Amanda Billing) confronted Brooke over her negligence and she realised she needed to cover her tracks.

Causation in English law

In the English law of negligence, causation proves a direct link between the defendant’s negligence and the claimant’s loss and damage.

For these purposes, liability in negligence is established when there is a breach of the duty of care owed by the defendant to the claimant that causes loss and damage, and it is reasonable that the defendant should compensate the claimant for that loss and damage.

Dave Kane

Kane was publicly opposed to Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch's handling of the criminal trials of those involved in negligence leading to the fire.

Guantanamo Bay homicide accusations

Journalists including Scott Horton, Glenn Greenwald, and Andrew Sullivan said that the Center report suggests that officials of multiple defense and intelligence agencies had allowed the deaths by negligence and had not conducted a proper investigation, or have tried to manage a cover-up.

Her Majesty's Commissioners of Customs and Excise v Barclays Bank Plc

C Mitchell and P Mitchell, 'Negligence Liability for Pure Economic Loss' (2005) 121 LQR 194-200

Kenneth Dean

Kenneth Deane, policeman convicted of criminal negligence during the Ipperwash Crisis

Liability for Defective Products Act 1991

The Liability for Defective Products Act 1991 is an Act of the Oireachtas that augmented Irish law on product liability formerly based solely on negligence.

Manos Limpias

There had been some twenty previous attempts from Manos Limpias to incriminate Garzón, for various alleged offences including negligence or delay in the seizure of taverns used by ETA militants, for contributing to the leading left-wing national newspaper El País, for contributing to an interview with former parliamentary president Felipe González, for participating in a rally against the war in Iraq and for leaking the medical report of Augusto Pinochet.

Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk

During the Wonderful Parliament of 1386 he was impeached on charges of embezzlement and negligence, a victim of increasing tensions between Parliament and Richard.

Michael Noonan

The department was embroiled in a scandal at the time regarding blood products contaminated with Hepatitis C virus, caused by the negligence of the Blood Transfusion Service Board.

Nanabhoy Palkhivala

He was however a firm opponent of politically motivated constitutional amendments (His favourite quotation was from Joseph Story, who said: "The Constitution has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, the people.").

PNS Mehran attack

Nisar Ali Khan, leader of the opposition in the parliament, also called the breach of PNS Mehran, a massive security negligence and called for summoning an open meeting of the joint parliamentary standing committee whereby the people responsible for the lapse be identified.

Product liability in the Republic of Ireland

Irish law on product liability was for most of its history based solely on negligence.

Psychiatric Solutions

A detailed series of articles published by The Los Angeles Times in conjunction with ProPublica exposed many cases of abuse and negligence at PSI facilities nationwide.

Re Cardiff Savings Bank

It is old law, but is still often mentioned as an extreme example of to what extent a "subjective" duty of care (as opposed to an objective duty of care under the modern law, see Re D'Jan of London Ltd and s.174 Companies Act 2006) allowed directors to escape consequences of their negligence.

Register.com

In January 2010, the Chinese search engine Baidu sued Register.com for gross negligence after an employee allegedly allowed a third party to access to Baidu's account despite them failing to pass basic security verification, allowing their website to be hijacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.

Rend al-Rahim Francke

In a recent interview conducted by the Greater Good Science Center, Francke said, " I think there's a great deal of negligence. It's not evil; its negligence and insensitivity..and I don't think it's possible to keep a healthy relationship unless you show that you care about a person, or a group of people, on a continuing basis."

Seaman status in United States admiralty law

The court codified the maintenance and cure and unseaworthiness remedies, but their ruling on remedies involving negligence did not go over well with Congress.

Ted Finn

Justice Ian Josephson described the erasures as "unacceptable negligence".

To Kill the Potemkin

With the ship's zampolit under arrest for negligence and the captain back in command, Potemkin makes a break for the Atlantic Ocean and a rendezvous with Soviet vessels working undercover in Cuba.

Vipin Handa

Handa has been absent from the media for a long time, and was last seen on Dastak, a television show where he presented the problems of the unfortunate such as rape victims, child sex workers and those suffering from medical negligence and old age.

Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia

When he failed to appear, the electors meeting at Lahneck Castle declared him deposed on 20 August 1400 on account of "futility, idleness, negligence and ignobility".

Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd

Distinguished academic writers have criticised the principle of assumption of responsibility as often resting on a fiction used to justify a conclusion that a duty of care exists: see Barker, 'Unreliable Assumptions in the Modern Law of Negligence' 1993 109 LQR 461; Hepple, 'The Search for Coherence' (1997) Current Legal Problems, Vol 50, 67, at 88; Cane, Tort Law and Economic Interests 2nd ed.

Workers in the Dawn

In a letter to his brother Algernon after publication, Gissing described the work as an "attack upon certain features of our present religious and social life which to me appear highly condemnable", particularly the "criminal negligence of governments".

World in Conflict

Sawyer, Parker and Bannon serve in France as part of a NATO counteroffensive against a Soviet invasion near Marseille, but while successful, Bannon's negligence results in the death of the French liaison, Commandant Sabatier.

Zmanim

If one has not recited the evening Shema by this time, and the omission was not due to negligence, one can still recite it now, up to sunrise, though one may not say Hashkiveinu or Baruch Hashem L'Olam.


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