Depending On The Dependency Claim

Authors

  • P Balan

Abstract

In 1846, the English Parliament enacted the first Fatal Accidents Act (Lord Campbell's Act) to create a major exception to the common law rule which was described in Baker v Bolton as, "In a civil court the death of a human being cannot be complained of as an injury". The Act, prompted by the increasing number of railway accidents, created a new cause of action which allowed specified dependants of a deceased person to sue the person who caused the deceased's death and claim damages for the pecuniary support that they had lost. 

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Published

2019-01-14

How to Cite

Balan, P. (2019). Depending On The Dependency Claim. Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law, 21(1 and 2), 157–168. Retrieved from http://mjs.um.edu.my/index.php/JMCL/article/view/16093