Example sentences of "to [pron] [art] defendant " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ann 's mother was plainly one of a class within the area of foreseeable risk and one to whom the defendants therefore owed a duty . |
| 2 | Third , there is the issue as to the extent to which , if at all , the court 's powers as to costs under section 51(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 and the rules of Order 62 can curtail the recovery , or retention to which the defendants are contractually entitled . |
| 3 | This case also concerned a joint and several promissory note , to which the defendant pleaded that the co-debtor had been released by deed on making a composition with the creditors , but the deed contained a proviso that it should not operate to prejudice the rights of others . |
| 4 | The officer then asked him : ‘ Will you provide a specimen of blood ? ’ to which the defendant replied , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 5 | The restriction of conspiracy might seem to put the plaintiff at a disadvantage if the unlawful means is a tort against a third party or the breach of a contract to which the defendant is not a party but this is not necessarily so , for the defendant 's procurement of the commission of the tort may again expose him to liability as a joint tortfeasor , and as to a breach of contract he may anyway have committed the substantive tort of interference with an existing contract . |
| 6 | Well my Lord I must say it had occurred to me erm that certainly on the basis on which I 'm contending for damages to be assessed with the plaintiffs and it is completely irrelevant , er er many of the matters to which the defendant 's expert goes to as to the damages and the extent to which they were caused by the negligence of the defendant , the breach of duty . |
| 7 | On the facts before them , and contrary to what the defendants actually maintained , their purpose did not include the desire to protect property as required by the section . |
| 8 | When the victim was an inoffensive law abiding citizen , therefore , or a constables who , by virtue of his training , is unlikely to respond to what the defendant was doing by committing a breach of the peace , there was little real likelihood of a breach of the peace , and no offence was committed , in spite of the defendant 's intolerably bullying behaviour . |
| 9 | Well if that were so my Lord then there would never be any any solicitor 's negligence claims , in which any expert was ever called to give evidence because it 's always going to be eventually a matter of law as to what the defendant 's duty is but what the er what the plaintiff had not said at any stage is that a matter of law is ever going to be admissible and in fact the is Justice our in the course of er er a case in which he , despite expressing reservations about the admissibility of the evidence , plainly admitted it because he was within the course of his judgement . |