Results: 84

• Gray v Thames Trains Ltd

  06 Jul 2007 [2007] EWHC 1558 (QB), QBD (Flaux J)

  25 Jun 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 713; [2009] AC 1339; [2009] 2 WLR 351, CA

  17 Jun 2009 [2009] UKHL 33; [2009] AC 1339; [2009] 3 WLR 167; [2009] 4 All ER 81; [2009] WLR (D) 195, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 8 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 47.
  NEGLIGENCE — Causation — Loss of earnings
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  NEGLIGENCE — Causation — Loss of earnings — Claimant injured in railway accident caused by defendants' negligence — Claimant suffering post-traumatic stress disorder causing severe depression and psychological changes — Claimant killing man whilst suffering from disorder and pleading guilty to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility — Damages for loss of earnings resulting from post-traumatic stress disorder — Whether claim for loss of earnings sustained after date of killing barred on grounds of public policy — Whether detention breaking chain of causation — Whether other heads of claim barred on grounds of public policy from date of killing

  9 Case(s) considered
• Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd

  02 Mar 2007 [2007] EWHC 409 (Ch); [2007] 1 All ER (Comm) 1083, Ch D (Briggs J)

  12 Mar 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 183; [2008] 2 All ER (Comm) 387, Ch D (Lord Justice Tuckey, Lord Justice Lawrence Collins and, Lord Justice Rimer)

  01 Jul 2009 [2009] UKHL 38; [2009] AC 1101; [2009] 3 WLR 267; [2009] Bus LR 1200; [2009] 4 All ER 677; [2010] 1 All ER (Comm) 365; [2009] WLR (D) 223, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 13 positive; 3 neutral; 2 negative; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 226.
  CONTRACT — Construction — Pre-contract negotiations
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  CONTRACT — Construction — Pre-contract negotiations — Parties disputing amounts due under component of price of contract — Disputed component defined in contract — Whether ordinary rules of construction applying — Whether evidence of parties' negotiations admissible as aid to construction where disputed term defined in contract — Whether rectification to be granted

  14 Case(s) considered
• Stone & Rolls Ltd v Moore Stephens

  27 Jul 2007 [2007] EWHC 1826 (Comm); [2008] Bus LR 304, QBD

  18 Jun 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 644; [2009] AC 1391; [2008] 3 WLR 1146; [2008] Bus LR 1579; [2008] 2 Lloyd's Rep 319, CA

  30 Oct 2008 (pet all) [2009] Bus LR 71, HL(E)

  30 Jul 2009 [2009] UKHL 39; [2009] AC 1391; [2009] 3 WLR 455; [2009] Bus LR 1356; [2009] 4 All ER 431; [2010] 1 All ER (Comm) 125; [2009] 2 Lloyd's Rep 537; [2009] WLR (D) 277, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 5 neutral; 3 negative. Subsequent citations: 43.
  COMPANY — Fraud — Knowledge of company
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  COMPANY — Fraud — Knowledge of company — Company used as vehicle to procure funds from bank for sham commercial transactions — Bank's successful action against company and director resulting in company's insolvency — Company's claim for damages for auditors' failure to detect fraud — Whether actions of fraudster to be attributed to company — Whether defence of ex turpi causa available to auditors — Whether defence overridden by fact that fraud relied on very thing auditors engaged to prevent

  14 Case(s) considered
• R v Islam

  10 Jun 2009 [2009] UKHL 30; [2009] AC 1076; [2009] 3 WLR 1; [2010] 1 All ER 493; [2010] 1 Cr App R (S) 42; [2009] WLR (D) 177, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 12.
  CRIME — Sentence — Confiscation order
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  CRIME — Sentence — Confiscation order — Defendant importing consignments of heroin into United Kingdom — Consignments seized by customs — Defendant pleading guilty to being knowingly concerned in fraudulent evasion of prohibition on importation of goods — Confiscation order made in sum including wholesale value of heroin on black market — Whether heroin to be treated as illegal goods having no “market value” — Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, ss 79, 80

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• R v G (Secretary of State for the Home Department intervening)

  12 Apr 2006 [2006] EWCA Crim 821; [2006] 1 WLR 2052; [2006] 2 Cr App R 270, CA

  20 Jun 2006 (pet all) [2008] UKHL 37; [2009] AC 92; [2006] 1 WLR 3181; [2008] 1 WLR 1379; [2008] 3 All ER 1071; [2009] 1 Cr App R 97, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 15.
  CRIME — Sexual offences — Rape of child under 13
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  CRIME — Sexual offences — Rape of child under 13 — Intentional penile penetration of child aged under 13 offence — No defence that defendant believed child to be over 13 — Boy aged 15 pleading guilty on basis of sexual intercourse by mutual agreement with girl he believed to be 15 — Whether strict liability offence conflicting with Convention right to fair trial and presumption of innocence — Whether prosecution disproportionate interference with Convention right to respect for private life — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 6, 8 — Sexual Offences Act 2003, ss 5, 13

  7 Case(s) considered

  3 Statutes considered
• R (Baiai) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

  10 Apr 2006 [2006] EWHC 823 (Admin); [2007] 1 WLR 693; [2006] 3 All ER 608; [2006] 2 FLR 645; [2006] 2 FCR 131; The Times, 14 April 2006, QB (Silber J)

  16 Jun 2006 (No 2) [2006] EWHC 1454 (Admin); [2007] 1 WLR 735; [2006] 4 All ER 555, QBD (Silber J)

  23 May 2007 [2007] EWCA Civ 478; [2008] QB 143; [2007] 3 WLR 573; [2007] 4 All ER 199; [2007] 2 FLR 627; [2007] 2 FCR 421, CA

  30 Jul 2008 (Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants intervening) [2008] UKHL 53; [2009] AC 287; [2008] 3 WLR 549; [2008] 3 All ER 1094; [2008] 2 FLR 1462; [2008] 3 FCR 1; The Times, 13 August 2008, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 27.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to marry — Interference with
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  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to marry — Interference with — Persons subject to immigration control — Requirement of written permission from Secretary of State to marry — No such requirement in Case of marriage conducted according to Church of England rites — Whether statutory provisions or Secretary of State's policy breaching Convention right to marry — Whether discrimination on grounds of religion or nationality — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 12, 14 — Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004, s 19 — Immigration (Procedure for Marriage) Regulations 2005, regs 7, 8

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to marry — Interference with — Persons subject to immigration control — Requirement of written permission from Secretary of State to marry — Permission refused to illegal immigrant — Whether statutory provisions or Secretary of State's policy breaching Convention right to marry — Whether discrimination on grounds of religion or nationality — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 12, 14 — Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004, s 19 — Immigration (Procedure for Marriage) Regulations 2005, regs 7, 8

  13 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Beoku-Betts v Secretary of State for the Home Department

  25 Jun 2008 [2008] UKHL 39; [2009] AC 115; [2008] 3 WLR 166; [2008] 4 All ER 1146, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 98.
  IMMIGRATION — Appeal — Leave to enter and remain
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  IMMIGRATION — Appeal — Leave to enter and remain — Secretary of State refusing claimant indefinite leave to remain — Appeal to adjudicator on human rights grounds — Whether adjudicator's assessment limited to effect on claimant alone — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 8 — Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, s 65

  1 Case considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Jain v Trent Strategic Health Authority

  04 Dec 2006 [2006] EWHC 3019 (QB), QBD

  22 Nov 2007 [2007] EWCA Civ 1186; [2008] QB 246; [2008] 2 WLR 456, CA

  21 Apr 2008 (pet all) [2008] 1 WLR 944, HL(E)

  21 Jan 2009 [2009] UKHL 4; [2009] AC 853; [2009] 2 WLR 248; [2009] PTSR 382; [2009] 1 All ER 957, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 41.
  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Registration authority
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  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Registration authority — Authority applying ex parte for order for cancellation of registration in respect of nursing home — Application made on basis of slipshod investigation and inaccurate information — Proprietors of home suffering financial loss as result of cancellation order by magistrate — Whether relationship of proximity between proprietors and authority — Whether fair, just and reasonable to impose duty of care — Whether authority owing common law duty of care to proprietors — Whether magistrate's order causing loss — Registered Homes Act 1984, s 30

  14 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (RJM) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

  13 Jul 2006 [2006] EWHC 1761 (Admin), QBD (James Goudie QC sitting as a deputy judge of the Queen's Bench Division)

  28 Jun 2007 [2007] EWCA Civ 614; [2007] 1 WLR 3067, CA

  22 Oct 2008 (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) [2008] UKHL 63; [2009] 1 AC 311; [2008] 3 WLR 1023; [2009] PTSR 336; [2009] 2 All ER 556, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 6 positive; 5 neutral. Subsequent citations: 166.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions — Disability premium

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Court of Appeal (Civil Division) — Relevance of European decisions
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  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions — Disability premium — Regulations providing for disability premium not to be payable to disabled person without accommodation — Cessation of payments to claimant on becoming homeless — Whether right to receive premium “possession” — Whether Convention right to peaceful enjoyment of “possessions” engaged — Whether Regulations giving rise to discrimination in enjoyment of Convention right on ground relating to “other status” — Whether justified — Whether Regulations incompatible with Convention rights — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 14, Pt II, art 1 — Income Support (General) Regulations 1987, Sch 7, para 6

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Court of Appeal (Civil Division) — Relevance of European decisions — Court of Appeal considering its earlier decision to be inconsistent with subsequent decision of European Court of Human Rights — Whether obliged to follow earlier decision — Whether obliged to follow earlier decision of House of Lords appearing to be inconsistent with subsequent decision of European Court of Human Rights — Application of principles in relation to decisions of European Patents Office Board of Appeal

  13 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R (Black) v Secretary of State for Justice

  15 Apr 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 359; [2009] 1 AC 949; [2008] 3 WLR 845; [2008] 4 All ER 151; [2009] 4 All ER 151, CA

  21 Jan 2009 [2009] UKHL 1; [2009] AC 949; [2009] 2 WLR 282; [2009] 4 All ER 1, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 3 negative. Subsequent citations: 22.
  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Release on licence
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  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Release on licence — Prisoner serving long-term determinate sentence of over 15 years — Secretary of State having power to reject Parole Board recommendation that prisoner be released on licence — Whether incompatible with Convention right to liberty — Criminal Justice Act 1991, s 35(1) — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 5(4)

  12 Case(s) considered

  4 Statutes considered