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Ministry of Defence v AB [2012] UKSC 9 (14 March 2012)
Veterans of British nuclear tests claimed injuries from radiation exposure. The Supreme Court considered whether their claims were time-barred under the Limitation Act 1980, specifically examining when 'knowledge' of attributability arose for limitation purposes.
Ministry of Defence (Respondent) v AB and others (Appellants)
Case summary Case ID UKSC/2010/0247 Parties Appellant (s) See judgment Respondent (s) See judgment Issue See judgment Facts See judgment Date of issue 17 December 2010 Judgment details Judgment date 14 March 2012 Neutral citation [2012] UKSC 9 Judgment links PDF Judgment (PDF)
Ministry of Defence v AB - Wikipedia
Ministry of Defence v AB [2012] UKSC 9 is an English tort law case, concerning causation, and material increase in risk.
Case Comment: AB v MoD [2012] UKSC 9 – UKSCBlog
On 14 March 2012, the Supreme Court handed down their long-awaited judgment in the case of AB v Ministry of Defence, the much publicised case of the former British servicemen seeking compensation from the British government following alleged exposure to radiation nuclear testing that took place in the Pacific region from 1952 to 1958. By a slim 4:3 majority (Lady Hale and Lords Phillips and ...
AB v Ministry of Defence - iclr.co.uk
The Rowland study (the results of which were made available to the claimants in 2007, before its full publication in 2008) was seen by the claimants and their advisers as a long-awaited breakthrough in the evidence of causation (the Ministry of Defence are very critical of this report, but that issue lies in the future).
SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT IN THE ATOMIC TEST VETERANS LITIGATION
VETERANS LITIGATION In what will become a leading case on limitation, group actions and causation, the Supreme Court has handed down its decision in Ministry of Defence v AB and others [2012] UKSC 9 (14th March 2012). The Supreme Court (Lords Wilson, Mance and Brown in the majority; Lords Phillips, Kerr and Lady Hale dissenting) has dismissed the veteran claimants’ appeal against the ...
Ministry of Defence v AB and others [2012] UKSC 9 | caselaw
Ministry of Defence v AB and others [2012] UKSC 9 — free case brief: facts, issue, held, and ratio decidendi in General. For LLB, GDL and SQE students.
Atomic Veterans summary - supremecourt.uk
Ministry of Defence (Respondent) v AB and others (Appellants) [2012] UKSC 9 On appeal from [2010] EWCA Civ 1317
Ministry of Defence v AB and others – [2012] UKSC 9 – zoomLaw
This appeal concerned group claims by veterans who alleged personal injuries caused by exposure to ionising radiation during nuclear tests. The United Kingdom Supreme Court heard preliminary issues on limitation and the court’s section 33 discretion.
Ministry of Defence v AB & Ors. - United Nations Environment Programme
Between Oct 1952 and Sep 1958, the British Government carried out 21 atmospheric nuclear tests in Australia and on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean. A group of 1011 claimants, the majority of them servicemen involved in the tests or their representatives, claimed damages for the adverse consequences to health allegedly resulting from exposure to ionising radiation. The claims were made ...
AB & Others v Ministry of Defence - vLex United Kingdom
The result was section 1 of the Limitation Act 1963, the terminology of which was to prove troublesome (see Smith v Central Asbestos Co Ltd [1973] AC 518) and thus to lead to the improvements first included in section 1 of the Limitation Act 1975 and soon consolidated in sections 11 and 14 of the Act.
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