Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd
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Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd [1998] UKHL 17 is an important English tort law, company law and contract law case. It held that for there to be an effective assumption of responsibility, there must be some direct or indirect conveyance that a director had done so, and that a claimant had relied on the information. Otherwise only a company itself, as a separate legal person, would be liable for negligent information.
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Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd | |
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Court | House of Lords |
Full case name | Williams and another v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd and Mistlin |
Citation(s) | [1998] UKHL 17, [1998] 1 WLR 830, [1998] 2 All ER 577, [1998] 1 BCLC 689 |
Transcript(s) | Full judgment |
Court membership | |
Judge(s) sitting | Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Steyn, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Clyde and Lord Hutton |
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Lord Steyn | |
Keywords | |
Assumption of responsibility, separate legal personality |
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