Rootes v Shelton
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Court | High Court |
| Date | 1968 |
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17 cases
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Dani Laura Chelsea Czernuszka (Nee Watts) v Natasha Mercedes King
...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......
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Condon v Basi
......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 higher ......
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Woods v Multi-Sport Holdings Pty Ltd
...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
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A Different Ball Game—Why the Nature of Consent in Contact Sports Undermines a Unitary Approach
...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......
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Winner All Right? Liability in Tort For Injury in Sport
...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......
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Consent and the Rules of the Game: The Interplay of Civil and Criminal Liability for Sporting Injuries
...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......
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Straf- en delikregtelike aanspreeklikheid vir sportbeserings
...'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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