The Weekly Law Reports
[1961] 2 WLR 126
[PRIVY COUNCIL.]
OVERSEAS TANKSHIP (U.K.) LTD. APPELLANTS; AND MORTS DOCK & ENGINEERING CO. LTD. RESPONDENTS. (THE WAGON MOUND.)
ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES.
1961 Jan. 18.
VISCOUNT SIMONDS, LORD REID, LORD RADCLIFFE, LORD TUCKER, and LORD MORRIS OF BORTH-Y-GEST.
Damages
— Negligence
— Remoteness
— Damage directly caused by negligent act
— Dangerous thing
— Furnace oil
— Spilled on harbour waters
— Fire
— Causation
— Damage to wharf
— Foreseeability of consequences the effective test of liability
— One criterion for determining liability and compensation.
Australia
— New South Wales
— Negligence
— Furnace oil spilled on harbour waters
— Fire
— Foreseeability of consequences the test of liability
— Remission of claim founded on nuisance.
Ship's Names
— Wagon Mound.