Rootes v Shelton

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Date1968
CourtHigh Court
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17 cases
  • Smith v Jenkins
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Dani Laura Chelsea Czernuszka (Nee Watts) v Natasha Mercedes King
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division
    • 23 February 2023
    ...court agreed, the Master of the Rolls, having cited the judgments of Barwick C.J and Kitto J in the Australian case of Rootes v Shelton [1968] ALR 33, said: “I have cited from those two judgments because they show two different approaches which, as I see it, produce precisely the same resul......
  • Condon v Basi
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
    ... ... 868B–E) ... Rootes v. Shelton [1968] A.L.R. 33 applied ... Per curiam. The standard of care in competitive sports is objective in differing sets of circumstances. A ... ...
  • Woods v Multi-Sport Holdings Pty Ltd
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 7 March 2002
    ...risk of being struck on the head by a ball, was clearly open on the evidence. The principles to be applied 37 As Kitto J pointed out in Rootes v Shelton2, people have taken pleasure in engaging in risky games since long before the law of negligence was formulated, and there is nothing new o......
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5 books & journal articles
  • A Different Ball Game—Why the Nature of Consent in Contact Sports Undermines a Unitary Approach
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 71-6, December 2007
    • 1 December 2007
    ...consent falls to be proven by the claimant.146 As in the criminal law, the rules are not de f‌initive. Barwick CJ said in Rootes vShelton [1968] ALR 33 at 34: ‘By engaging in a sport . . . the participants may beheld to have accepted risks which are inherent in that sport . . . but this doe......
  • Winner All Right? Liability in Tort For Injury in Sport
    • Ireland
    • Trinity College Law Review No. VI-2003, January 2003
    • 1 January 2003
    ...Violence" excerpted in Gardiner, Sports Law ( 2 ad ed., Cavendish Publishing, 2001), at 705. 6 Rootes v. Shelton 116 CLR 383; [1968] ALR 33 (HCA), (hereinafter Rootes) and Condon v. Basi [1985] 1 WLR 866; [1985] 2 All ER 453, being two examples in point. 2003] Liability in Tort for Injury i......
  • Consent and the Rules of the Game: The Interplay of Civil and Criminal Liability for Sporting Injuries
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 69-5, October 2005
    • 1 October 2005
    ...for the protection of him and other players in 21 Wooldridge v Sumner [1963] 2 QB 43; Condon v Basi [1996] 1 WLR 866; Rootes v Shelton [1968] ALR 33; Caldwell v Maguire and Fitzgerald [2001] EWCA Civ 1054,[2002] PIQR 22 Blake v Galloway [2004] EWCA Civ 814, [2004] 1 WLR 2844 at [13–15].23 I......
  • Straf- en delikregtelike aanspreeklikheid vir sportbeserings
    • South Africa
    • Stellenbosch Law Review No. , May 2019
    • 27 May 2019
    ...'n Belgiese saak137 van 1912 is beslis dat die houe wat 130 Sien par 4 supra. 131 Sien ook Eser 1978 JZ 374. Sien verder Rootes v Sheton 1968 ALR 33 34; Condon v Basi 1985 WLR 866(CA) 867. 132 BGE 109 IV, 103. 133 BayOLG Urt v 3/8/1961, NJW 1961 2072; AG Köln Urt v 11/1/1984, VersR 1985 173......
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