Results: 157

• R v Kelly (James)

  06 Jul 1965 [1965] 2 QB 409; [1965] 3 WLR 571; [1965] 3 All ER 162, CCA

  CRIME — Plea — Guilty
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  CRIME — Plea — Guilty — Plea entered on record — Guilty to malicious damage of one glass — Particulars of offence alleged number of articles — Plea not accepted — Trial and subsequent acquittal — Whether plea of guilty on record a conviction — Implied withdrawal of plea — Duty of judge to order record to be corrected
• Ilford Corpn v Betterclean (Seven Kings) Ltd

  05 Feb 1965 [1965] 2 QB 222; [1965] 2 WLR 727; [1965] 1 All ER 900; 63 LGR 208, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral.
  SHOP — Sunday closing — Serving of customers
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  SHOP — Sunday closing — Serving of customers — Launderette — Coin-operated machines — Premises open and customers using machines on Sunday — Cleaner present — Machines restocked by director's wife — No other employee present — Whether a “shop open for the serving of customers” — Whether personal services rendered to customer — Shops Act, 1950, ss 47, 74

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Uddin v Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd

  14 Dec 1964 [1965] 2 QB 15; [1965] 2 WLR 327; [1965] 1 All ER 347, QBD

  23 Mar 1965 [1965] 2 QB 582; [1965] 2 WLR 1183; [1965] 2 All ER 213; 63 LGR 241, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  FACTORY — Dangerous machinery (fencing) — Revolving shaft in upper storey of factory

  FACTORY — Dangerous machinery (manufacture) — Persons liable

  FACTORY — “Persons employed” — Unauthorised act

  STATUTE — Construction — Side note
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  FACTORY — Dangerous machinery (fencing) — Revolving shaft in upper storey of factory — Whether “transmission machinery” — Machine intended to be driven by mechanical power — Unfenced shaft — Whether breach of duty by employers of workmen to fence — Factories Act, 1937, ss 17, 152

  FACTORY — Dangerous machinery (manufacture) — Persons liable — Machine intended to be driven by mechanical power — Manufacturer's obligation — Whether any duty upon factory employer or occupier — Factories Act, 1937, s 17

  FACTORY — “Persons employed” — Unauthorised act — Unauthorised act in unauthorised place by workman — Workman injured by unfenced revolving shaft — Injury sustained during working hours — Whether duty to fence — Whether employers in breach of duty — “Employed” — Factories Act, 1937, s 14 (1)

  STATUTE — Construction — Side note — Cannot be used as aid to construction — Factories Act, 1937, s 17

  5 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Phipps v Pears

  10 Mar 1964 [1965] 1 QB 76; [1964] 2 WLR 996; [1964] 2 All ER 35, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 9.
  EASEMENT — Protection from weather — Whether an easement
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  EASEMENT — Protection from weather — Whether an easement — Whether a right known to law — “Easements, rights and advantages appertaining … to the land” — Law of Property Act, 1925, s 62

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Robinson v Williams

  18 Jun 1964 [1965] 1 QB 89; [1964] 3 WLR 563; [1964] 3 All ER 12, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 3.
  AFFILIATION — Jurisdiction — Successive complaints

  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Affiliation

  EVIDENCE — Fresh evidence — Affiliation
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  AFFILIATION — Jurisdiction — Successive complaints — First complaint dismissed — Second complaint — Same subject matter — Fresh evidence — Nature of fresh evidence — Whether evidence of a serious kind — Whether evidence must be evidence not reasonably obtainable at the first hearing — Affiliation Proceedings Act, 1957, s 4

  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Affiliation — Complaint by mother of illegitimate child — Complaint dismissed — Second complaint on same ground in respect of same birth — Fresh evidence adduced — Whether jurisdiction to hear second complaint — Affiliation Proceedings Act, 1957, s 4

  EVIDENCE — Fresh evidence — Affiliation — Second complaint by mother that defendant putative father — Nature of fresh evidence — Whether evidence must be of serious kind — Whether evidence not reasonably obtainable at first hearing — Affiliation Proceedings Act, 1957, s 4

  2 Case(s) considered

  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
• Margaronis Navigation Agency Ltd v Henry W Peabody & Co of London Ltd

  28 Feb 1964 [1964] 1 QB 300; [1965] 1 QB 300; [1964] 3 WLR 111; [1964] 2 All ER 296; [1964] 1 Lloyd's Rep 173, QBD

  30 Jun 1964 [1965] 2 QB 430; [1968] 2 QB 430; [1964] 3 WLR 873; [1964] 3 All ER 333; [1964] 2 Lloyd's Rep 153, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 5.
  ARBITRATION — Special case — Findings of fact

  DE MINIMIS — Contract — Charterparty

  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Cargo
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  ARBITRATION — Special case — Findings of fact — Mixed question of fact and law — How far finding binding on court — Whether de minimis rule applicable — Whether full cargo loaded

  DE MINIMIS — Contract — Charterparty — Whether full cargo loaded — Deficiency of under 1 per cent — Whether de minimis — Whether rule applicable in claim for damages — Finding of arbitrator — Whether binding on court — Mixed question of fact and law

  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Cargo — Obligation of charterers to load — Whether entitled to use whole of lay time in loading — Cargo to be loaded at average rate of not less than 1,000 tons per weather working day — Cargo almost fully loaded — Charterers' discontinuance of loading for four days — Time for loading still unexpired — Owners' claim for damages for detention — Charterers under no duty to accelerate loading if time unexpired — Only 1 per cent of cargo not loaded — Whether de minimis

  4 Case(s) considered

• Capper v Baldwin

  27 Jan 1965 [1965] 2 QB 53; [1965] 2 WLR 610; [1965] 1 All ER 787; 63 LGR 163, DC

  Subsequent citations: 9.
  GAMING — Amusements with prizes — Gaming machines
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  GAMING — Amusements with prizes — Gaming machines — Permit for the provision of amusement with prizes in public-house — Fruit machine operated by discs — Winnings in form of discs exchanged for goods on sale — Percentage of discs retained by machine — Whether within “amusements with prizes” — Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1963, s 49

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Abbott v Smith (Note)

  25 Jun 1964 [1965] 2 QB 662; [1965] 3 WLR 362; [1964] 3 All ER 762, QBD

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 3.
  VAGRANCY — Prostitution — Brothel
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  VAGRANCY — Prostitution — Brothel — Separate and independent lettings of individual rooms in house — Each tenant a right to exclusive occupation of room — Two prostitutes occupying rooms in house — House used by other prostitutes for entertainment of men — Whether a “brothel” — “Manage … a brothel” — Sexual Offences Act, 1956, s 33

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent

  17 Jul 1964 [1965] 1 QB 623; [1964] 3 WLR 820; [1964] 3 All ER 646, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 10.
  COURT OF APPEAL — Argument not raised below — Question not raised in affidavits

  RESTRAINT OF TRADE — Master and servant — Confidential information
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  COURT OF APPEAL — Argument not raised below — Question not raised in affidavits — Refusal to entertain

  RESTRAINT OF TRADE — Master and servant — Confidential information — Plastics technologist employed to co-ordinate research on adhesive tape — Access to detailed trade secrets — Details too difficult to remember specifically — Covenant against employment by competitors for one year after leaving employment — World-wide restriction — Not limited to competitors manufacturing adhesive tape — Whether any “confidential information” requiring protection — Whether restraint reasonable

  2 Case(s) considered