Sentences with phrase «ipsa loquitor»

The old saying that hard cases make bad law is one is not always true is a recent case in the Privy Council demonstrates in a laudable effort to do justice to a litigant in person the Privy Council (Lords Mance and Neuberger and Sir Jonathan Parker) appear to have extended the application of res ipsa loquitor.

Res ipsa loquitor implies that the plaintiff need only show that a particular result occurred, and it would not have happened but for the defendant's negligence.