Results: 116

• R v Harman

  11 May 1959 [1959] 2 QB 134, CCA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CRIME — Criminal law — Court of Criminal Appeal
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  CRIME — Criminal law — Court of Criminal Appeal — Sentence, appeal against — Jurisdiction of court — Failure to surrender to bail — Recognisance estreated with alternative of six months' imprisonment — Jurisdiction of Court of Criminal Appeal to hear appeal — Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 23), ss. 3, 21.

  1 Statute considered

• R v Jones (Ernest Raymond)

  26 Jan 1959 [1959] 1 QB 291; [1959] 2 WLR 190, CCA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  CRIME — Criminal law — Homicide
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  CRIME — Criminal law — Homicide — Killing in course of other offence — Theft — “In course … of theft” — Money stolen from shop — Murder on premises to escape detection — Whether “in the course … of theft” — Homicide Act, 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz. 2, c. 11), s. 5 (1) (a).

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• Woods v Martins Bank Ltd

  23 Jul 1958 [1959] 1 QB 55; [1958] 1 WLR 1018, Assizes

  Subsequent citations: 14.
  BANKING — Duty to customer — Advice on investment

  PRACTICE — Practice and procedure — Discovery

  SOLICITOR — Officer of court — Duty as
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  BANKING — Duty to customer — Advice on investment — Liability to customer.

  PRACTICE — Practice and procedure — Discovery — Affidavit of documents — Duty of solicitor.

  SOLICITOR — Officer of court — Duty as — Discovery.

  1 Case considered
• Mace v R H Green and Silley Weir Ltd

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive.

• Warner v Sampson

  13 Jan 1958 [1958] 1 QB 404; [1958] 2 WLR 212, QBD

  18 Dec 1958 [1959] 1 QB 297; [1959] 2 WLR 109, CA

  Subsequent citations: 11.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Forfeiture of lease — Repudiation of landlord's title

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Action for possession

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Amendment

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — General traverse
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Forfeiture of lease — Repudiation of landlord's title — Action by landlord for possession — General denial of statement of claim. in defence — No affirmative setting up of adverse title — Whether general denial creates forfeiture — Defence amended to admit landlord's title before any effective step taken by landlord to claim forfeiture — Effect of amendment.

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Action for possession — General denial — Whether causing forfeiture of lease.

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Amendment — Effect — Retroactive — Amendment of defence to admit landlord's title before any effective step taken by landlord to claim forfeiture — Whether amendment effective to exclude right to forfeiture.

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — General traverse — No effective distinction between denial and non-admission — General traverse putting plaintiff to proof.

• Society Of Medical Officers Of Health v Hope (Valuation Officer)

  09 Feb 1959 [1959] 1 QB 462; [1959] 2 WLR 377, CA

  21 Jan 1960 [1960] AC 551; [1960] 2 WLR 404, HL

  Subsequent citations: 12.
  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Rates and rating

  RATING — Rates and rating — Science or fine art
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  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Rates and rating — Local valuation court — Decision in 1951 that society be entered on current valuation list as exempt from rates under Scientific Societies Act, 1843 — Same question arising in 1956 — Scientific Societies Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 36), s. 1 — Local Government Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 26), ss. 40, 41, 44, 48.

  RATING — Rates and rating — Science or fine art — Exemption — Whether decision of local valuation court on requisite entry in one valuation list res judicata in relation to new valuation list — Whether local valuation court a court of competent jurisdiction — Whether dispute before local valuation court a lis inter partes — Scientific Societies Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 36), s. 1 — Local Government Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 26), ss. 40, 41, 44, 48.

  1 Statute considered

• Brown v Jamieson

  18 Dec 1958 [1959] 1 QB 338, CA

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Business premises (security of tenancy) — Decontrolled premises
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Business premises (security of tenancy) — Decontrolled premises — Notice to quit — Validity — Notice given in November, 1956, expiring November, 1957 — Premises within Rent Acts when notice given — “Decontrolled” July, 1957 — Landlord and Tenant Act, 1954, control applicable thereafter — Notice not in form prescribed by Act — Landlord and Tenant Act, 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2, c. 56), ss. 24 (3) (b), 43 (1) — Rent Act, 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz. 2, c. 25), s. 11, Sch. 4, paras. 2, 11.

  1 Statute considered
• Woods v Martins Bank Ltd

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 3.

• Baxter v Stockton-On-Tees Corpn

  23 Jun 1958 [1959] 1 QB 441, CA

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  HIGHWAY — Non-feasance of local authority — New road
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  HIGHWAY — Non-feasance of local authority — New road — Statutory vesting in local authority — Accident caused by projecting kerb of island adjacent to roundabout — Negligence — Highway constructed by county council and subsequently vesting in local authority — Liability of local authority in claim for damages — Development and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 47), s. 10 — Local Government Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 32.

  1 Statute considered

• Ross v Evans

  17 Apr 1959 [1959] 2 QB 79, DC

  ANIMAL — Dog — Unmuzzled and ferocious
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  ANIMAL — Dog — Unmuzzled and ferocious — Greyhounds being exercised on highway on leads — Wether “at large” — Metropolitan Police Act, 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47), s. 54 (2).

  1 Statute considered