"It is settled law that a plaintiff can succeed in a claim for damages for trespass and injunction even where his claim for a declaration of title fails."
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"The maxim is not a rule of law; it merely describes a state of the evidence from which it was proper to draw an inference of negligence. It is 'no...
"The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur means that an accident may by its nature be more consistent with its being caused by negligence for which the defendant is responsible than...
"Reliance on the doctrine of 'res ipsa' is thus a confession by the plaintiff that he has no direct and affirmative evidence of the negligence complained of against the defendant...
"I think it is thus clear that this approach to a claim in negligence comes into operation (1) on proof of the happening of an unexplained occurrence. (2) when the...
"It is a basic principle of law that in a claim for damages for trespass to land, the plaintiff, to succeed, must establish exclusive possession of the land in dispute...
"Once I have found that the document exhibit D11 by which the defendant gained possession is void, the defendant's entry to the land is void ab initio and amounts to...
"Negligence alone does not give a cause of action, damage alone does not give a cause of action; the two must co-exist."
"First one has to ask as between the alleged wrong doer and the person who has suffered damage if there is a sufficient relationship of proximity or neighbourhood such that...
"The rationale in truth is that, even though not so expressed, the obligations towards the contracting party extended to all such persons who were likely to be injured by the...
"A privileged occasion is … an occasion where the person who makes a communication has an interest or a duty, legal, social or moral, to make it to the person...
"In general an action lies for the malicious publication of statements which are false in fact, and injurious to the character of another and the law considers such publication as...
