Economic loss not recoverable
Economic loss not recoverable
- 1992
- Times 22 May 1992, LT8(1) .
In "Wentworth v Wiltshire CC", CA 20 May 1992, it was held that a person who suffered purely economic loss resulting from a highway authority`s breach of its statutory duty to maintain a highway was not entitled to recover that loss from the highway authority.
DAIRY FARM
ECONOMIC LOSS
HIGHWAYS ACT 1959 S44
HIGHWAYS ACT 1961 S1(1)
BUILT ENVIRONMENT-BUILDING MAINTENANCE AND REFURBISHMENT
TANKER
In "Wentworth v Wiltshire CC", CA 20 May 1992, it was held that a person who suffered purely economic loss resulting from a highway authority`s breach of its statutory duty to maintain a highway was not entitled to recover that loss from the highway authority.
DAIRY FARM
ECONOMIC LOSS
HIGHWAYS ACT 1959 S44
HIGHWAYS ACT 1961 S1(1)
BUILT ENVIRONMENT-BUILDING MAINTENANCE AND REFURBISHMENT
TANKER