Results: 176

• Wooldridge v Sumner

  04 Jun 1962 [1963] 2 QB 43; [1962] 3 WLR 616; [1962] 2 All ER 978, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 3 neutral. Subsequent citations: 17.
  NEGLIGENCE — Sport — Competitor and spectator

  VOLENTI NON FIT INJURIA — Sport — Competitor and spectator
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  NEGLIGENCE — Sport — Competitor and spectator — Standard of care — Horse show — Heavyweight hunter competition — Galloping horse driven too fast round corner of arena — Deviation from arena into shrubs bordering arena — Attempt to bring horse back into arena — Injury to non-paying spectator standing at edge of arena — Whether competitor liable

  VOLENTI NON FIT INJURIA — Sport — Competitor and spectator — Horse show — Galloping horse driven too fast round corner of arena — Injury to non-paying spectator standing at edge of arena — Whether doctrine applicable

  10 Case(s) considered
• St Pancras Borough Council v Frey

  08 Mar 1963 [1963] 2 QB 586; [1963] 2 WLR 894; [1963] 2 All ER 124; 61 LGR 276, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 1.
  HOUSING — Possession application — Evidence
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  HOUSING — Possession application — Evidence — Notice to quit terminating tenancy — Application to justices for possession — No specific proof that local authority acting under enactment relating to housing — Whether proof necessary — Housing Act, 1957, s 158 (2)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Edgwarebury Park Investments Ltd v Minister of Housing and Local Government

  07 Dec 1962 [1963] 2 QB 408; [1963] 2 WLR 257; [1963] 1 All ER 124; 61 LGR 184, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral.
  TOWN PLANNING — Planning permission — Validity
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  TOWN PLANNING — Planning permission — Validity — Determination of — Whether Minister has to determine validity of grant of planning permission — Jurisdiction of court by declaration — Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, s 17 (1)

  1 Statute considered
• R v Mayling

  15 Feb 1963 [1963] 2 QB 717; [1963] 2 WLR 709; [1963] 1 All ER 687, CCA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 8.
  CRIME — Common law misdemeanour — Contra bonos mores, offences
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  CRIME — Common law misdemeanour — Contra bonos mores, offences — Act outraging public decency — Essential elements of offence — Whether proof of actual disgust and annoyance of members of public required — Whether evidence of disgust and annoyance of police officers sufficient

  5 Case(s) considered

• Josephine Trust Ltd v Champagne

  29 Jun 1962 [1963] 2 QB 160; [1962] 3 WLR 1077; [1962] 3 All ER 136, CA

  RESTRICTIVE COVENANT — Variation — Jurisdiction of court

  STATUTE — Construction — Meaning of word
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  RESTRICTIVE COVENANT — Variation — Jurisdiction of court — Housing — Conversion of dwelling-house — Housing Act, 1957, s 165

  STATUTE — Construction — Meaning of word — Ordinary meaning to be applied — “House” — Housing Act, 1957, s 165

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Straker v Director of Public Prosecutions

  12 Feb 1963 [1963] 1 QB 926; [1963] 2 WLR 598; [1963] 1 All ER 697, DC

  13 Mar 1963 (pet dis) [1963] 1 WLR 332, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 3.
  CRIME — Obscene libel — Obscene article
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  CRIME — Obscene libel — Obscene article — Photographic negative — Display cards of prints numbered to correspond with photographic negatives — Prints orderable from negative — Whether photographic negative “obscene article” — “Article” — Whether kept for publication for gain — “Obscene article” — Obscene Publications Act, 1959, ss 1 (2) (3) (b), 2 (1), 3(1)

  1 Case considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• R v Hurford; R v Williams (R v Williams (Douglas))

  26 Mar 1963 [1963] 2 QB 398; [1963] 2 WLR 1038; [1963] 2 All ER 254, CCA

  CRIME — Forgery — Obtaining property by
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  CRIME — Forgery — Obtaining property by — Hire-purchase agreement form — Motor vehicle obtained by virtue of a forged instrument — “… obtains … by virtue of any forged instrument” — Meaning — Elements of offence — Forgery Act, 1913, s 7

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• R v Verolla

  22 Jan 1962 [1963] 1 QB 285; [1962] 3 WLR 132; [1962] 2 All ER 426, Assizes (Melford Stevenson J.)

  CRIME — Evidence — Husband or wife, of
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  CRIME — Evidence — Husband or wife, of — Husband charged with attempting to cause poison to be taken by wife with intent to murder her — Whether wife competent witness — Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s 14 — Criminal Evidence Act, 1898, s 4 (1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Beg r Patents Appeal Tribunal, Ex parte J R Gelgy SA (Geigy (J R) SA, Ex parte, R v Patents Appeal Tribunal)

  28 Feb 1963 [1963] 2 QB 728; [1963] 2 WLR 1007; [1963] 1 All ER 850, DC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CROWN PRACTICE — Certiorari — Alternative remedy
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  CROWN PRACTICE — Certiorari — Alternative remedy — Patents Appeal Tribunal — Refusal to direct reference to opponents' patent in applicants' specification — Error in law — Risk of infringement — Opponents' remedy by action if patent infringed — Whether opponents should be granted certiorari — Patents Act, 1949, s 9 (1)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• Attorney-General v Butterworth (Attorney-General’s Application, In re)

  21 Dec 1961 LR 3 RP 1; [1962] 1 QB 534; [1962] 2 WLR 70; [1962] 1 All ER 321, RPCt

  16 Jul 1962 LR 3 RP 327; [1963] 1 QB 696; [1962] 3 WLR 819; [1962] 3 All ER 326, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 7 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 33.
  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Witnesses, influencing — Proceedings terminated

  RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES — Costs — Contempt of court
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  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Witnesses, influencing — Proceedings terminated — Restrictive Practices Court — Evidence given by official of trade federation — Hostility and disapproval of federation members — Subsequent purported deprivation of witness's offices — Whether likely to deter witnesses in future cases — Relevance of possibility of future proceedings — Whether contempt

  RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES — Costs — Contempt of court — Form of order

  15 Case(s) considered