Results: 76

• R v Governor of Pentonville Prison, Ex parte Alves

  29 Oct 1992 [1993] AC 284; [1992] 3 WLR 844; [1992] 4 All ER 787; 97 Cr App R 135, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 25.
  EXTRADITION — Committal proceedings — Evidence
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  EXTRADITION — Committal proceedings — Evidence — Alleged accomplice's statement before Swedish court implicating accused — Accomplice retracting statement in committal proceedings — Whether statement capable of forming basis for committal — Whether magistrate required to consider Swedish court's jurisdiction — Extradition Act 1989, Sch 1, para 7(1) — Sweden (Extradition) Order 1966, Sch 1, arts 1, 3

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Canterbury City Council v Colley (Colley v Canterbury City Council)

  (1992) 90 LGR 321, CA

  21 Jan 1993 [1993] AC 401; [1993] 2 WLR 254; [1993] 1 All ER 591; 91 LGR 61, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 11.
  TOWN PLANNING — Compensation — Revocation of planning permission
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  TOWN PLANNING — Compensation — Revocation of planning permission — Permission previously granted for building on site of demolished house — Statutory assumption that planning permission available for rebuilding house — Whether applicable where permission for rebuilding of house expressly revoked — Calculation of post-revocation value — Town and Country Planning Act 1971, s 164(4), Sch 8

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers Ltd

  15 Mar 1991 [1992] QB 770; [1991] 4 All ER 795; The Times, 8 April 1991, QBD (Morland J)

  19 Feb 1992 [1992] QB 770; [1992] 3 WLR 28; [1992] 3 All ER 65; 90 LGR 221; (1992) 4 Admin LR 469; (1992) 142 NLJ 276; The Times, 20 February 1992, CA (Balcombe, Ralph Gibson and Butler-Sloss LJJ)

  18 Feb 1993 [1993] AC 534; [1993] 2 WLR 449; [1993] 1 All ER 1011; 91 LGR 179; 91 LGR 179; (1993) 143 NLJ 283; The Times, 19 February 1993, HL(E) (Lord Keith of Kinkel, Lord Griffiths, Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Browne-Wilkinson and Lord Woolf)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 3 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 136.
  DEFAMATION — Parties — Corporation
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  DEFAMATION — Parties — Corporation — Publication relating to administration of local authority's superannuation fund — Publication insinuating maladministration of pension funds — Balance between public interest in freedom of speech and protection of authority's reputation — Whether local authority entitled to maintain action in respect of governmental and administrative function — Local Government Act 1972, s 222(1)

  9 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• R v Naillie (R v Kanesarajah)

  14 Apr 1992 [1992] 1 WLR 1099; [1993] 1 All ER 75; 96 Cr App R 161, CA

  11 Feb 1993 (pet all) [1993] 1 WLR 243, HL(E)

  26 May 1993 [1993] AC 674; [1993] 2 WLR 927; [1993] 2 All ER 782; 97 Cr App R 388, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 6.
  IMMIGRATION — Legal entrant — Assisting illegal entrant
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  IMMIGRATION — Legal entrant — Assisting illegal entrant — Provision of false passports abroad to facilitate travel to United Kingdom — Entrants not attempting to pass through immigration control but seeking asylum — Whether illegal entrants — Immigration Act 1971, ss 25(1), 33(1)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Deloitte Haskins and Sells v National Mutual Life Nominees Ltd

  10 Jun 1993 [1993] AC 774; [1993] 3 WLR 347; [1993] 2 All ER 1015, PC

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  ACCOUNTANT OR AUDITOR — New zealand — Deposit taking business
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  ACCOUNTANT OR AUDITOR — New zealand — Deposit taking business — Auditor's duties — Company taking unsecured deposits — Auditor required to report to trustee for depositors — Failure of auditor to make report or advise trustee of relevant matters — Extent of auditor's statutory duty — Whether auditor in breach of duty — Whether common law duty superimposed — Securities Act 1978, s 50(2)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Overseas Enactment considered
• Stubbings v Webb

  27 Mar 1991 [1992] QB 197; [1991] 3 WLR 383; [1991] 3 All ER 949; The Times, 3 April 1991, CA (Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson VC, Bingham and Nolan LJJ)

  16 Dec 1992 [1993] AC 498; [1993] 2 WLR 120; [1993] 1 All ER 322, HL(E) (Lord Templeman, Lord Bridge of Harwich, Lord Griffiths, Lord Ackner and Lord Slynn of Hadley)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 44.
  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Personal injuries — Time limit, power to override
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  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Personal injuries — Time limit, power to override — Adult plaintiff alleging sexual abuse during childhood — Date of plaintiff's knowledge that injuries significant and attributable to defendants' acts — Whether three-year limitation period applicable to intentional trespass — Whether claims statute-barred — Limitation Act 1980, ss 11(1)(4)(b), 14(1)(a)(b)(2)(3)

  4 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• In re British & Commonwealth Holdings Plc (Nos 1 and 2)

  12 Dec 1991 [1992] Ch 342; [1992] 2 WLR 931; [1992] 2 All ER 801, CA

  29 Oct 1992 [1993] AC 426; [1992] 3 WLR 853; [1992] 4 All ER 876, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 3 neutral. Subsequent citations: 44.
  INSOLVENCY — Inquiry into company's dealings — Production of documents
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  INSOLVENCY — Inquiry into company's dealings — Production of documents — Order for production by auditors of subsidiary company — Administrators' statement in support of application for order — Court's discretion to require statement to be disclosed to auditors — Whether proper to order production of documents — Insolvency Act 1986, s 236(2)(c)(3) — Insolvency Rules 1986, r 95(2)(3)

  9 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Workers Trust & Merchant Bank Ltd v Dojap Investments Ltd

  22 Feb 1993 [1993] AC 573; [1993] 2 WLR 702; [1993] 2 All ER 370, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 26.
  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Deposit — Forfeiture
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  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Deposit — Forfeiture — Contract for sale of land providing for deposit of 25 per cent of purchase price — Purchaser failing to complete — Vendor rescinding contract — Whether deposit reasonable — Whether vendor entitled to forfeit deposit — Whether purchaser entitled to relief with interest from date of rescission — Jamaica

  3 Case(s) considered
• Pepper v Hart

  24 Nov 1989 [1990] 1 WLR 204; 65 TC 421, Ch D (Vinelott J)

  13 Nov 1990 [1991] Ch 203; [1991] 2 WLR 483; [1991] ICR 681; [1991] 2 All ER 824; 65 TC 421; The Times, 15 November 1990, CA (Nicholls, Farquharson and Slade LJJ)

  26 Nov 1992 [1993] AC 593; [1992] 3 WLR 1032; [1993] ICR 291; [1993] 1 All ER 42; [1992] STC 898; 65 TC 421, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 6 positive; 13 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2012. Subsequent citations: 707.
  PARLIAMENT — Privilege — Proceedings in Parliament

  REVENUE — Income tax — Employment

  STATUTE — Construction — Hansard
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  PARLIAMENT — Privilege — Proceedings in Parliament — Reference to parliamentary material as aid to construction of statute — Whether questioning or impeaching proceedings in Parliament — Bill of Rights 1689, art 9

  REVENUE — Income tax — Employment — Benefits of directors and higher paid employees — Concessionary scheme for education of sons of school's staff — Quantification of cash equivalent of benefit — Whether cash equivalent of benefit made good by payment of reduced fees' — Finance Act 1976, ss 61(1), 63(2)

  STATUTE — Construction — Hansard — Rule prohibiting reference to Parliamentary proceedings as aid to construction — Legislation ambiguous, obscure or leading to absurdity — Clear ministerial statement as to purport of legislation — Whether rule to be relaxed

  7 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Lord Napier and Ettrick v Hunter

  09 Jul 1992 [1993] 1 Lloyd's Rep 10; The Times, 17 July 1992, CA (Dillon, Staughton and Nolan L.JJ.)

  06 Dec 1992 , QBD (Saville J)

  10 Dec 1992 [1993] AC 713; [1993] 2 WLR 42; [1993] 1 All ER 385; [1993] 1 Lloyd's Rep 197, HL(E) (Lord Templeman, Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, Lord Browne-Wilkinson and Lord Slynn of Hadley)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 29.
  INSURANCE — Subrogation — Payment by insurers
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  INSURANCE — Subrogation — Payment by insurers — Members of Lloyd's syndicate insured by stop loss insurers against underwriting losses — Claims against stop loss insurers under policies met — Settlement of action by members against syndicate's managing agents for negligence and breach of duty occasioning losses settled — Whether stop loss insurers having enforceable equitable interest in settlement moneys — Policy excess — Whether assureds entitled to deduct from sum to be paid to stop loss insurers by way of subrogation — Equitable relief — Whether stop loss insurers entitled to injunction restraining solicitors from paying settlement moneys to assureds

  6 Case(s) considered