Campbell, Lascelles v Clifton Bennett, Steve Gardener

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF JAMAICA

IN COMMON LAW

SUIT NO. CL C 248 OF 1995 I

BETWEEN LASCELLES CAMPBELL .

AND CLIFTON BENNElT

AND STEVE GARDENER

CLAIMANT

FIRST DEFENDANT

SECOND DEFENDANT

Miss Deborah Dowding instructed by Arthur Williams and Company ~

C for the claimant

Mr. Debayo Adidepe and Mr. Donald Gittens for the first defendant

No representation for second defendant and second defendant not

appearing I

September 16 and 22,2005

MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT, VICARIOUS LIABILITY, RULE 64.6 OF

THE CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES

C SYKES J

1. A car driven by Steve Gardner, the second defendant, registered in the

name of Clifton Bennett, the first defendant, hit Mr. Lascelles Campbell, the

claimant, from his motor cycle on June 1, 1991, as he rode from Spaillding

to Bauleyston in the parish of Manchester. The evidence is not clear but is

seems that someone took Mr. Carr~pbell to the Percy Ji~nor Hospital and