Results: 96

• Darker v Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police

  27 Jul 2000 [2001] 1 AC 435; [2000] 3 WLR 747; [2000] 4 All ER 193, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 5 positive; 4 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 56.
  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Striking out
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  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Striking out — Criminal proceedings against plaintiffs stayed as abuse of process — Action against police for damages for conspiracy to injure and misfeasance in public office — Amended statement of claim alleging fabrication of evidence — Whether police immune from suit — Whether amended statement of claim to be struck out

  7 Case(s) considered
• Berkeley v Secretary of State for the Environment

  06 Jul 2000 [2001] 2 AC 603; [2000] 3 WLR 420; [2000] 3 All ER 897, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 130.
  TOWN PLANNING — Development — Environmental assessment

  TOWN PLANNING — Development — Environment assessment
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  TOWN PLANNING — Development — Environmental assessment — Urban development project — Proposed stadium redevelopment encroaching on river bank — Secretary of State holding public inquiry where documents available setting out environmental issues — Failure by Secretary of State to consider whether environmental assessment procedure necessary — Whether subsequent grant of planning permission ultra vires — Whether objectives of environmental assessment met — Court's discretion — Town and Country Planning Act 1990, s 288(5)(b) — Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988, reg 4(2) — Council Directive (85/337/EEC), art 2(1)

  TOWN PLANNING — Development — Environment assessment — Urban development project — Proposed stadium redevelopment encroaching on river bank — Secretary of State holding public inquiry where documents available setting out environmental issues — Failure by Secretary of State to consider whether environmental assessment procedure necessary — Whether subsequent grant of planning permission ultra vires — Whether objectives of environmental assessment met — Court's discretion — Town and Country Planning Act 1990, s 288(5)(b) — Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988, reg 4(2) — Council Directive 85/337/EEC, art 2(1)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Agnew v Länsförsäkringsbolagens AB

  08 Aug 1996 [1996] 4 All ER 978, QBD (Mance J)

  31 Jul 1997 [1997] 4 All ER 937, CA

  17 Feb 2000 [2001] 1 AC 223; [2000] 2 WLR 497; [2000] 1 All ER 737, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 20.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under European Convention — Place of performance of contractual obligation

  INSURANCE — Reinsurance — Jurisdiction under European Convention
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under European Convention — Place of performance of contractual obligation — Reinsurance contract — Action by reinsurers seeking to avoid reinsurance contracts on grounds of misrepresentation and non-disclosure — Application by insurers to set aside writ for want of jurisdiction — Whether action concerning “matters relating to insurance” — Whether concerning “matters relating to a contract” — Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, Sch 3C (as inserted by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991, s 1(3), Sch 1), arts 5(1), 7

  INSURANCE — Reinsurance — Jurisdiction under European Convention — Action by reinsurers to avoid reinsurance contracts on grounds of misrepresentation and non-disclosure — Whether concerning “matters relating to insurance” — Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, Sch 3C (as inserted by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991, s 1(3), Sch 1), art 7

  5 Case(s) considered

  4 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex p Hindley

  18 Dec 1997 [1998] QB 751; [1998] 2 WLR 505, DC

  05 Nov 1998 [2000] QB 152; [1999] 2 WLR 1253, CA

  30 Mar 2000 [2001] 1 AC 410; [2000] 2 WLR 730; [2000] 2 All ER 385, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 39.
  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Release on licence
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  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Release on licence — Mandatory life sentence prisoner — Tariff element of determinate length provisionally fixed but not communicated to prisoner — Whole life tariff subsequently fixed and communicated — Whether policy allowing imposition of whole life tariff lawful — Whether increase from determinate tariff to whole life tariff lawful — Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, s 1(1) — Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, s 29

  1 Case considered
• Barrett v Enfield London Borough Council

  25 Mar 1997 [1998] QB 367; [1997] 3 WLR 628; [1997] 3 All ER 171; [1997] 2 FLR 167; [1997] 3 FCR 145; (1997) 37 BMLR 16; (1998) 10 Admin LR 230; The Times, 22 April 1997, CA (Lord Woolf MR, Evans and Schiemann LJJ)

  17 Jun 1999 [2001] 2 AC 550; [1999] 3 WLR 79; [1999] 3 All ER 193; [1999] LGR 473; [1999] 2 FLR 426; (1999) 49 BMLR 1; (1999) 11 Admin LR 839; [1999] PIQR P272; The Times, 18 June 1999, HL(E) (Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Nolan, Lord Steyn and Lord Hutton)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 8 neutral. Subsequent citations: 165.
  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Local authority
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  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Local authority — Common law duty to protect and promote welfare of children in care — Alleged failure to carry out duty — Whether local authority liable in negligence

  4 Case(s) considered

• Attorney-General of the Cayman Islands v Wahr-Hansen

  26 Jun 2000 [2000] 3 WLR 869; [2000] 3 All ER 642, PC

  26 Jun 2000 [2001] 1 AC 75; [2000] 3 WLR 869; [2000] 3 All ER 642, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CHARITY — Charitable purposes — Public good
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  CHARITY — Charitable purposes — Public good — Trust income payable to organisations or institutions operating for public good — Whether purposes exclusively charitable — Whether trusts valid

  8 Case(s) considered
• R v Governor of Brockhill Prison, Ex p Evans (No 2)

  19 Jun 1998 [1999] QB 1043; [1999] 2 WLR 103; [1998] 4 All ER 993, CA (Lord Woolf MR, Roch, Judge LJJ)

  27 Jul 2000 [2001] 2 AC 19; [2000] 3 WLR 843; [2000] 4 All ER 15, HL(E) (Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Steyn, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Hobhouse of Woodborough)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 5 neutral; 3 negative. Subsequent citations: 160.
  FALSE IMPRISONMENT — Prisoner serving sentence — Damages
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  FALSE IMPRISONMENT — Prisoner serving sentence — Damages — Miscalculation of release date — Calculation on basis of authoritative judicial decisions — Decisions subsequently overruled — Whether entitlement to damages for false imprisonment — Whether relevant that prison authorities not at fault — Assessment of damages

  9 Case(s) considered

• Snell v Beadle (née Silcock)

  31 Jan 2001 [2001] UKPC 5; [2001] 2 AC 304; [2001] 2 WLR 1180, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  PRACTICE — Channel islands — Jersey
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  PRACTICE — Channel islands — Jersey — Customary law — Déception d'outre moitié du juste prix — Defendant granting plaintiff vehicular right of access for agreed sum — Plaintiff seeking to enforce agreement — Defendant relying on customary law remedy for déception d'outre moitié du juste prix — Essential elements of remedy — Whether juste prix for servitude right capable of objective determination — Whether remedy applicable — Whether agreement enforceable

  4 Case(s) considered
• Hamilton v Al Fayed

  26 Mar 1999 [1999] 1 WLR 1569; [1999] 3 All ER 317; [2001] EMLR 394, CA

  23 Mar 2000 [2001] 1 AC 395; [2000] 2 WLR 609; [2000] 2 All ER 224, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 50.
  PARLIAMENT — Privilege — Proceedings in Parliament
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  PARLIAMENT — Privilege — Proceedings in Parliament — Parliamentary inquiry making adverse findings as to former member's conduct — Defamation action subsequently brought by former member over accusations on television programme concerning same conduct — Trial of action requiring examination of veracity of statements made before inquiry — Whether potential breach of parliamentary privilege — Whether former member's right to waive privilege extending to matters within autonomous jurisdiction of Parliament — Defamation Act 1996, s 13

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Wildtree Hotels Ltd v Harrow London Borough Council

  11 Jun 1998 [1999] QB 634; [1998] 3 WLR 1318; [1998] 3 All ER 638, CA

  22 Jun 2000 [2001] 2 AC 1; [2000] 3 WLR 165; [2002] 3 WLR 165; [2000] 3 All ER 289; [2000] LGR 547, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 16.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Compensation — Road widening scheme
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Compensation — Road widening scheme — Works involving obstruction of access to adjacent land and causing noise, dust and vibration — Owners of adjacent hotel claiming business injuriously affected — Whether compensation limited to claim for obstruction of access — Whether compensation payable where interference only temporary — Compulsory Purchase Act 1965, s 10

  15 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered