In Dann v Hamilton [1939] 1 KB 509 the plaintiff accepted a lift with someone he knew to be drunk. Again, there was no volenti since [...]unless the risk was so extreme that it was the equivalent of ‘meddling with an unexploded bomb’.
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there was knowledge of the risk of injury, but no implied agreement to it
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In Dann v Hamilton [1939] 1 KB 509 the plaintiff accepted a lift with someone he knew to be drunk. Again, there was no volenti since [...]unless the risk was so extreme that it was the equivalent of ‘meddling with an unexploded bomb’.
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#defences #law #negligence #tort
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In Dann v Hamilton [1939] 1 KB 509 the plaintiff accepted a lift with someone he knew to be drunk. Again, there was no volenti since [...]unless the risk was so extreme that it was the equivalent of ‘meddling with an unexploded bomb’.
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there was knowledge of the risk of injury, but no implied agreement to it
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