Results: 161

• R v Kent Justices, Ex parte Crittenden (Crittenden, Ex parte, R v Kent Justices)

  08 Mar 1963 [1964] 1 QB 144; [1963] 2 WLR 1124; [1963] 2 All ER 245; 61 LGR 346, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 1.
  STATUTE — Construction — Object of Act

  TOWN PLANNING — Caravan site — Conditions of licence
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  STATUTE — Construction — Object of Act — Interrelation between statutes — Condition attached to planning permission — Same condition attached to site licence issued under later Act — Whether justices could vary condition on site licence — Whether operation of Act of 1960 confined to limits of Act of 1947 — Town and Country Planning Act, 1947 — Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act, 1960

  TOWN PLANNING — Caravan site — Conditions of licence — Whether limited by planning permission — Planning permission subject to condition — Site licence issued with same condition — Whether justices jurisdiction to vary condition in site licence — Town and Country Planning Act, 1947 — Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act, 1960, ss 3, 5, 7, 17, 29 (4)

  2 Statutes considered
• Building & Civil Engineering Holidays Scheme Management Ltd v Post Office

  28 Feb 1964 [1964] 2 QB 430; [1964] 2 WLR 967; [1964] 2 All ER 25, QBD

  17 Nov 1964 [1966] 1 QB 247; [1965] 2 WLR 72; [1965] 1 All ER 163, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 11.
  CONVERSION — Damages — Measure of

  CROWN PROCEEDINGS — Post Office — Statutory liability

  DAMAGES — Market value — Document
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  CONVERSION — Damages — Measure of — Additional liability flowing from conversion — Whether recoverable — Loss of document — Privately issued stamps lost in post

  CROWN PROCEEDINGS — Post Office — Statutory liability — Registered inland postal packet — Negligent loss of packet — Basis of cause of action — Privately issued stamps bearing face value — “Market value” — Whether face value — Crown Proceedings Act, 1947, s 9 (2) (b)

  DAMAGES — Market value — Document — Additional liability flowing from conversion — Whether recoverable

  DAMAGES — Market value — Document — Privately issued stamps bearing face value — Negligent loss by Post Office — Probability of future loss — Whether “market value” face value — Crown Proceedings Act, 1947, s 9 (2) (b)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• R v Box

  29 Jul 1963 [1964] 1 QB 430; [1963] 3 WLR 696; [1963] 3 All ER 240, CCA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 8.
  CRIME — Practice — Jury
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  CRIME — Practice — Jury — Juror's knowledge of defendants' character — Whether disqualified — Bias — Defendants thought to be dishonest by juror — No view as to guilt formed at outset of trial — Validity of verdict

  1 Case considered

• Gordon v Cradock

  05 Mar 1963 [1964] 1 QB 503; [1963] 2 WLR 1252; [1963] 2 All ER 121, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  COURT OF APPEAL — Leave to appeal — Conditional leave to defend action
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  COURT OF APPEAL — Leave to appeal — Conditional leave to defend action — Order refusing defendant unconditional leave to defend — Whether plaintiff requires leave to appeal — Whether interlocutory appeal — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s 31 (1) (2)

  1 Statute considered
• Letang v Cooper

  21 Feb 1964 [1964] 2 QB 53; [1964] 2 WLR 642; [1964] 1 All ER 669; [1964] 1 Lloyd's Rep 188, QBD

  15 Jun 1964 [1965] 1 QB 232; [1964] 3 WLR 573; [1964] 2 All ER 929; [1964] 2 Lloyd's Rep 339, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 6 positive; 4 neutral. Subsequent citations: 132.
  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Trespass to the person — Personal injuries

  STATUTE — Construction — Mischief aimed at

  TRESPASS — Involuntary — Unintentional act
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  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Trespass to the person — Personal injuries — Facts also giving rise to cause of action in negligence — Action in negligence statute-barred — Whether trespass to the person “breach of duty” — Whether period of limitation six years or three — Limitation Act, 1939, s 2 (1) — Law Reform (Limitation of Actions, etc) Act, 1954, s 2 (1)

  STATUTE — Construction — Mischief aimed at — Whether legitimate to look at report of committee preceding legislation

  TRESPASS — Involuntary — Unintentional act — Trespass to the person — Sunbather run over by motor car — Whether cause of action in trespass or negligence — Whether actual damage necessary ingredient — Whether “breach of duty” on part of driver — Limitation of action

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Haley v London Electricity Board

  29 Nov 1963 [1964] 2 QB 121; [1964] 2 WLR 444; [1963] 3 All ER 1003, CA

  28 Jul 1964 [1965] AC 778; [1964] 3 WLR 479; [1964] 3 All ER 185; 63 LGR 1, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 3.
  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Extempore judgment — Weight

  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Blind person

  NUISANCE — Statutory undertaker, liability of — Highway
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  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Extempore judgment — Weight — Judgment of Court of Appeal — Extempore after inadequate argument — Whether equally authoritative with decision after full argument and with mature consideration

  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Blind person — Excavation in pavement — Excavation guarded by sloping handle of punner-hammer — Guard sufficient for sighted person — Blind person tripped up by handle and injured — Ambit of duty owed to pedestrians

  NUISANCE — Statutory undertaker, liability of — Highway — Electricity undertaking — Excavation in pavement pursuant to statutory powers — Excavation guarded by sloping handle of punner-hammer — Guard sufficient for sighted person — Blind person tripped up by handle and injured — Whether special duty owed to blind persons — Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847, s 6 — Electricity Lighting Act, 1882, s 12 (as amended) — Public Utilities Street Works Act, 1950, s 8

  5 Case(s) considered

  3 Statutes considered

• Clarke v National Insurance and Guarantee Corpn Ltd

  09 Apr 1963 [1963] 2 QB 790; [1963] 2 WLR 1396; [1963] 2 All ER 470; [1963] 1 Lloyd's Rep 322, QBD (Davies LJ)

  11 Jul 1963 [1964] 1 QB 199; [1963] 1 WLR 710; [1963] 3 All ER 375; [1963] 2 Lloyd's Rep 35, CA (Harman and Pearson L.JJ., and Havers J.)

  INSURANCE — Motor vehicle — Exception clause
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  INSURANCE — Motor vehicle — Exception clause — Insurers not liable while car “being driven in an unsafe or unroadworthy condition” — Car grossly overloaded — Braking, steering and control of car adversely affected by overloading — Whether overloaded car driven in unsafe and/or unroadworthy condition — Whether insurers liable

  6 Case(s) considered

• Wells v Hardy

  28 Feb 1964 (pet dis) [1964] 2 WLR 967, HL(E)

  11 Mar 1964 [1964] 2 QB 447; [1964] 2 WLR 958; [1964] 1 All ER 953, DC

  FISHERY — Private waters — “Taking” fish
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  FISHERY — Private waters — “Taking” fish — Angling for sport — Intention to return fish to water unharmed — No intention to deprive water of fish — Whether an offence — “Take” — Whether bona fide belief in claim of right valid defence — “Unlawfully and wilfully” — Larceny Act, 1861, s 24

  4 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• R v King (Andrew)

  08 Oct 1963 [1964] 1 QB 285; [1963] 3 WLR 892; [1963] 3 All ER 561, CCA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 2.
  CRIME — Bigamy — Mens rea
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  CRIME — Bigamy — Mens rea — Validity of previous marriage — Whether honest belief on reasonable grounds that previous marriage bigamous a defence — Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s 57

  4 Case(s) considered
• Parsons v BNM Laboratories Ltd

  04 Apr 1963 [1964] 1 QB 95; [1963] 2 WLR 1273; [1963] 2 All ER 658, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 9 positive; 3 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 30.
  DAMAGES — Earnings, loss of — Unemployment benefit
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  DAMAGES — Earnings, loss of — Unemployment benefit — Whether accountable in mitigation of loss of earnings following wrongful dismissal

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered