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…The particulars of negligence as pleaded are: (a)Driving at an excessive speed in the circumstances. (b)Failing to keep any or any proper look out.…

…the respondent called no evidence as regards the actual manner of driving of the appellant's vehicle but relied on the fact of the said conviction as proof of negligence.…

…These follow the usual, stereotyped, particulars of negligence which can be obtained from any book on pleadings and civil procedure.…

…He is entitled, and indeed bound, if he is not to be guilty of any contributory negligence, to take reasonable precautions to avoid injury to himself. In Jones v Boyce [1816] 171 ER VOL.…

…The accident was therefore attributed to negligence on the part of the defendant’s driver.…

…A defence was delivered on behalf on the defendant admitting the occurrence of the accident and the death of the deceased but alleging that the said accident was caused by negligence on the part of the deceased.…

…He brought this action against the Defendant claiming that the Defendant was negligent and that it was such negligence which occasioned the accident.…

…At first the Defendant denied liability for the negligence but on the 30th October, 1991, the parties agreed that the Plaintiff was himself 10% negligent while the Defendant was 90% negligent.…

…The issue of negligence was, by consent of the parties, agreed. The liability of the appellant was agreed at 65%, that of the deceased being 35%.…

…There will be cases in which justice will be better served by allowing the consequences of the negligence of the lawyers to fall on their own heads rather than by allowing an amendment at a very late stage of proceedings.…