This subject teaches the MECHANISM — third-party liability, no-fault liability, and the claims machinery — and deliberately does not teach the money. The 2019 amendment raised the figures substantially and renumbered parts of the compensation scheme. Treat no monetary sum in this subject as the amount in force; check the current text before you quote one in an answer.
The sections below are the ones the LL.B. papers examine on this Act, with the unit that covers each and the cases decided on it. The official text is on India Code ↗.
Sections in the syllabus
s. 2
s. 2(1)(b)
s. 2(1)(d)
s. 2(1)(o)
s. 2(11)
s. 2(22)
s. 2(28)
Covered in Unit 5 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 1.
s. 2(42)
s. 2(o)
s. 3
s. 14(1)(d)
s. 15
s. 17
s. 18
s. 19
s. 34
s. 35
s. 36
s. 37
s. 38
s. 47
s. 48
s. 49
s. 53
s. 58
s. 64
s. 64V
s. 83
s. 84(1)
s. 84(2)
s. 87
s. 102
s. 110
s. 138
s. 140
s. 147
Covered in Unit 5 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 1.
s. 148
s. 149
s. 149(1)
s. 149(2)
s. 149(2)(a)
s. 149(7)
s. 150
Covered in Unit 5 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 1.
s. 150(2)
s. 150(5)
s. 153
s. 161
Covered in Unit 5 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 1.
s. 162
s. 163A
s. 163B
s. 164
Covered in Unit 6 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 2.
s. 164(2)
s. 164A
s. 164B
s. 166
Covered in Unit 6 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 2.
s. 166(3)
s. 168
Covered in Unit 6 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 2.
s. 170
Covered in Unit 6 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 2.
s. 171
s. 174
s. 178
s. 180
s. 185
s. 186
s. 234
s. 302
s. 304
s. 304A
s. 308
s. 324
s. 326
s. 356
s. 429
s. 499
s. 500
s. 523
s. s. 134
Covered in Unit 4 · Medico-Legal Issues.
s. s. 134(a)
Covered in Unit 1 · Right to Health and the Medical Profession.
s. ss. 140, 165, 166 and 168
Covered in Unit 2 · The Regulatory Framework, Life Insurance and Motor Third-Party.
s. ss. 147 and 149
Covered in Unit 2 · The Regulatory Framework, Life Insurance and Motor Third-Party.
Cases on this Act
- Donoghue v Stevenson (1932)
- Rylands v Fletcher (1868)
- Union Carbide Corporation v Union of India — the Bhopal gas disaster litigation
- Ashby v White (1703) and the Gloucester Grammar School Case (1410)
- Bhim Singh v State of Jammu & Kashmir (1985)
- Municipal Corporation of Delhi v Subhagwanti (1966)
- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police (1992)
- In Re Polemis (1921) and The Wagon Mound (No. 1) (1961)
- Hedley Byrne & Co. Ltd. v. Heller & Partners Ltd. (1964)
- Rustom K. Karanjia v K.M.D. Thackersey (1970) and R. Rajagopal v State of Tamil Nadu (1994)
- Sarla Verma v. Delhi Transport Corporation (2009) and National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Pranay Sethi (2017)
- National Insurance Co Ltd v Swaran Singh (2004)
- Rajkot Municipal Corporation v Manjulben Jayantilal Nakum (1997)
- M.P. Electricity Board v Shail Kumari (2002)
- Town Area Committee v Prabhu Dayal (1974)
- Rickards v Lothian (1913)
- Rookes v Barnard (1964)
- Page v Smith (1995)
- Pushpa Thakur v Union of India (1984)
- Smith v Eric S Bush (a firm) (1989)
- Spring v Guardian Assurance plc (1994)
- Anns v Merton London Borough Council (1977)
- Bar of Indian Lawyers through its President Jasbir Singh Malik v. D.K. Gandhi PS National Institute of Communicable Diseases (2024)
- Bolitho v. City and Hackney Health Authority (1997)
- Hay (or Bourhill) v. Young (1942)
- Cambridge Water Co Ltd v Eastern Counties Leather plc (1993)
- Dr. A.S. Chandra and Ors. v Union of India and Ors. (1992)
- Esso Petroleum Company Ltd v Mardon (1976)
- Henderson v Merrett Syndicates Ltd (1994)
- Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd (1970)
- Hughes v Lord Advocate (1963)
- Jay Laxmi Salt Works (P) Ltd v State of Gujarat (1994)
- Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board (2015)
- Murphy v Brentwood District Council (1990)
- The New India Assurance Company Limited v Smt. Somwati and Others (2020)
- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)
- General Manager, Kerala S.R.T.C. v Susamma Thomas (1993)
- Lumley v Gye (1853)
- The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Bradford v Pickles (1895)
- McLoughlin v O'Brian (1982)
- Quinn v Leathem (1901)
- Read v J. Lyons and Company Limited (1946)
- Roe v Minister of Health (1954)
- Saheli, A Women's Resources Centre v Commissioner of Police, Delhi Police Headquarters (1989)
- Shyam Sunder v State of Rajasthan (1974)
- Smith v East Elloe Rural District Council (1956)
- State of Andhra Pradesh v Challa Ramkrishna Reddy (2000)
- State of Bombay (now Gujarat) v Memon Mahomed Haji Hasam (1967)
- U.P. State Road Transport Corporation v Trilok Chandra (1996)
- V. Kishan Rao v Nikhil Super Speciality Hospital (2010)
- Williams and Another v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd and Mistlin (1998)