Stubbed out

Ross, Jonathan

Stubbed out - 2008 - Property Week 73(40) 3 October 2008, 73(1) .

Summarises the case of Fosse Motor Engineers Ltd & Ors v Conde Nast and National Magazine Distributors Ltd & Anor [2008] EWHC 2037 (TCC), 20 August 2008 (see L145574). Clear evidence is needed to establish that a party is the probable, rather than possible, cause of a fire. It had been for a warehouse owner to prove on the balance of probabilities that a fire which destroyed its property had been caused by the negligence of a tenant's workers, which it had failed to do.


FOSSE MOTOR ENGINEERS LTD & ORS V CONDE NAST AND NATIONAL MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTORS LTD & ANOR


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