Results: 84

• Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge Co (Hong Kong) Ltd

  30 Apr 1997 [1997] AC 728; [1997] 3 WLR 13, PC

  Subsequent citations: 9.
  COPYRIGHT — Infringement — Indirect copying
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  COPYRIGHT — Infringement — Indirect copying — Plaintiff manufacturing cartridges for photocopiers and laser printers — Defendant manufacturing cartridges indirectly copying plaintiffs drawings of cartridge parts — Whether defendant infringing plaintiff's copyright in drawings — Whether “spare parts exception” to copyright protection applicable — Copyright Act 1956, ss 1(1), 3(5)(a) (extended to Hong Kong by Copyright (Hong Kong) Order 1972, art 3)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Banque Bruxelles Lambert SA v Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd (BNP Mortgages Ltd v Goadsby & Harding Ltd, BNP Mortgages Ltd v Key Surveyors Nationwide Ltd, United Bank of Kuwait Plc v Prudential Property Services Ltd, South Australia Asset Management Corpn v York Montague Ltd)

  21 Dec 1993 (Unreported), QBD (Phillips J)

  20 Feb 1995 [1995] QB 375; [1995] 2 WLR 607; [1995] 2 All ER 769, CA

  20 Jun 1996 [1997] AC 191; [1996] 3 WLR 87; [1996] 3 All ER 365, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 15 positive; 5 neutral; 3 negative; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 223.
  DAMAGES — Measure of damages — Surveyor's report
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  DAMAGES — Measure of damages — Surveyor's report — Plaintiffs lending money on basis of surveyor's negligent valuation — Subsequent general fall in property market and default by borrowers in repayment of loans — Plaintiffs obtaining possession and selling properties at price below valuation — Whether loss attributable to market fall recoverable

  12 Case(s) considered

• Chung Ping Kwan v Lam Island Development Co Ltd

  08 Jul 1996 [1996] UKPC 23; [1997] AC 38; [1996] 3 WLR 448; [1994] 2 HKC 11, PC

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  LAND — Hong kong — Land
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  LAND — Hong kong — Land — Limitation of action — Option to renew Crown lease — Statutory provision for deemed exercise of option by lessee and deemed grant of new Crown lease — Squatters in adverse possession before and after new lease granted — Whether lessee's action for recovery of possession statute-barred — New Territories (Renewable Crown Leases) Ordinance, s 4(1)(3)(4) — Limitation Ordinance, ss 7(2), 8(1), 17

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Overseas Enactments considered

• E Johnson & Co (Barbados) Ltd v NSR Ltd

  09 Jul 1996 [1996] UKPC 25; [1997] AC 400; [1996] 3 WLR 583, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Completion — Delay in completion
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  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Completion — Delay in completion — Notice of intended compulsory purchase issued after exchange of contracts Purchaser refusing to complete — Crown taking possession of land after date set for completion — Whether issue of notice frustrating event — Whether purchaser entitled to rescind — Whether vendor entitled to specific performance — Whether damages appropriate remedy — Land Acquisition Act, ss 3, 4, 5 — Barbados

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 Overseas Enactment considered
• Mannai Investment Co Ltd v Eagle Star Life Assurance Co Ltd

  05 Jul 1995 [1995] 1 WLR 1508; [1996] 1 All ER 55, CA

  08 Feb 1996 (pet all) [1996] 1 WLR 250, HL(E)

  21 May 1997 [1997] AC 749; [1997] 2 WLR 945; [1997] 3 All ER 352; [1997] CLC 1124; [1997] 1 EGLR 57; The Times, 26 May 1997, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 12 positive; 4 neutral; 4 negative. Subsequent citations: 316.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Lease for fixed term — Notice to determine
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Lease for fixed term — Notice to determine — Lease for 10 years — Provision to determine — Notice wrongly stating date of termination — Whether effective

  7 Case(s) considered
• Williams (Kervin) v The Queen (Hamilton v The Queen, Leslie v The Queen)

  16 Apr 1997 [1997] AC 624; [1997] 2 WLR 910, PC (Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Mustill, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, Lord Steyn and Lord Hutton)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  CRIME — Summing up — Judge's direction

  CRIME — Jamaica — Crime
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  CRIME — Summing up — Judge's direction — Judge directing jury to convict if defendant's statement accepted — Whether misdirection — Judge failing to direct jury to consider two counts of murder separately — Whether substantial miscarriage of justice — Judge referring to revenge theory advanced by prosecuting counsel in address to jury — No prior notice to counsel of intention — Whether defendant deprived of fair trial — Judicature (Appellate Jurisdiction) Act, s 14(1) — Jamaica

  CRIME — Jamaica — Crime — Homicide — Classification of existing murder convictions as capital or non-capital — Single judge classifying murders and determining death sentences warranted — Classification and determination upheld on review by three Court of Appeal judges — Whether Privy Council having jurisdiction to entertain appeals — Jamaica (Constitution) Order in Council 1962 (SI 1962 No. 1550), Sch 2, s. 110(3)(5) — Offences against the Person Act 1864 (c 268), s 3(1A), 3B(5) (as inserted by Offences against the Person (Amendment) Act 1992 (No 14 of 1992), ss. 3(b), 4) — Offences against the Person (Amendment) Act 1992, s 7

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

  3 Overseas Enactments considered

• Semco Salvage & Marine Pte Ltd v Lancer Navigation Co Ltd (Lancer Navigation Co Ltd v Semco Salvage and Marine Pte Ltd, Nagasaki Spirit, The)

  [1995] 2 Lloyd's Rep 44

  [1996] 1 Lloyd's Rep 449, CA

  06 Feb 1997 [1997] AC 455; [1997] 2 WLR 298; [1997] 1 All ER 502; [1997] 1 Lloyd's Rep 323, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  ADMIRALTY — Salvage — Remuneration
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  ADMIRALTY — Salvage — Remuneration — Salvage services rendered to vessel — Salvor's claim for remuneration and special compensation referred to arbitrator — Whether “fair rate” including remuneration — Whether salvors entitled to “special compensation” during whole of salvage operation — Merchant Shipping Act 1995, s 224(1)(2), Sch 11, art 14

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Wharf Properties Ltd v Comr of Inland Revenue

  27 Jan 1997 [1997] AC 505; [1997] 2 WLR 334, PC

  REVENUE — Hong kong — Revenue
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  REVENUE — Hong kong — Revenue — Profits tax — Deduction of expenses — Taxpayer borrowing money to purchase tram depot for redevelopment — Whether interest on loans “expenditure of a capital nature” — Whether deductible in ascertaining taxpayer's chargeable profits — Inland Revenue Ordinance, ss 16(1)(a), 17(1)(c)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Overseas Enactment considered
• In re L (A Minor) (Police Investigation: Privilege) (L v UK)

  21 Mar 1996 [1997] AC 16; [1996] 2 WLR 395; [1996] 2 All ER 78; 95 LGR 139; [1996] 1 FLR 731, HL(E)

  09 Sep 1999 (Appn no 34222/96); [2000] 2 FLR 322, ECtHR

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 2 neutral; most recently considered: 2020. Subsequent citations: 43.
  CHILDREN — Evidence — Privilege
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  CHILDREN — Evidence — Privilege — Care proceedings — Child admitted to hospital with methadone poisoning — Local authority commencing care proceedings — Leave granted to parents to disclose court papers to expert investigating frequency of child's drug ingestion — Condition requiring disclosure of report to other parties — Police seeking disclosure for purposes of deciding whether to prosecute mother — Whether report covered by legal professional privilege — Whether disclosure infringing mother's privilege against self-incrimination — Children Act 1989, s 31

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• R v Khan (Sultan)

  27 May 1994 [1995] QB 27; [1994] 3 WLR 899; [1994] 4 All ER 426; [1995] 1 Cr App R 242, CA

  04 Oct 1994 (pet all) [1997] AC 558; [1994] 1 WLR 1426; [1996] 3 WLR 162; [1996] 3 All ER 289; [1996] 2 Cr App R 440, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 52.
  CRIME — Evidence — Tape recording
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  CRIME — Evidence — Tape recording — Covert installation of electronic listening device involving trespass, damage to property and invasion of privacy — Tape recorded conversation containing admission of involvement in importation of heroin — Whether evidence of conversation admissible — Whether discretion to exclude evidence of conversation to be exercised — Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, s 78

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered