Hughes v Lord Advocate UKHL 8 is a famous Scottish delict case decided by the House of Lords on causation. It is also influential in the English law of tort.
Famous quotes containing the words hughes, lord and/or advocate:
“I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)
“My Lord Bath, you and I are now two as insignificant men as any in England.”
—Robert Walpole (1676–1745)
“I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)