View source for Gray v Thames Trains Ltd (2008) EWCA Civ 713

''The principle of ex turpa causa did not prevent the claimant from recovering damages after the commission of manslaughter. [Overturned on appeal.]''

==Related judgments==
[[Gray v Thames Trains Ltd (2009) UKHL 33]]
*[[Gray v Thames Trains Ltd (2008) EWCA Civ 713]]
:*[[Gray v Thames Trains Ltd (2007) EWHC 1558 (QB)]]

==Brief summary==
The claimant was a passenger in the Ladbroke Grove train crash who subsequently suffered from PTSD, committed manslaughter and was detained. He sought damages for negligence. The defendant admitted liability but argued that the principle of ex turpa causa prevented the claimant from recovering any damages from the date of the manslaughter conviction.

The judge held that in so far as the claimant's claim relates to losses suffered after the commission of the act of manslaughter, that claim must be dismissed.

Held:  The appeal on the ex turpi causa point was allowed. N.B. This decision was successfully appealed.

==ICLR==
{{ICLR|Gray v Thames Trains Ltd (2008) EWCA Civ 713}}

==External link==
{{#bailii: [2008] EWCA Civ 713}}

[http://www.lawreports.co.uk/HouseofLords/decisionresults08.html Law Reports website] - Permission to appeal to HL given 27/10/08

[http://www.lawreports.co.uk/WLRD/2008/CACiv/jun1.2.htm WLR (D) law report on ICLR website]


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