Results: 189

• Redbridge London Borough Council v Wests (Ilford) Ltd

  29 Nov 1967 [1968] 1 QB 789; [1968] 2 WLR 145; 66 LGR 277; [1968] 2 WLR 145: [1968] 1 All ER 277, DC

  SHOP — Early closing — Mixed shop
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  SHOP — Early closing — Mixed shop — Multiple store — Local order exempting classes of shops selling certain types of goods from early closing — Store kept open for sale of goods covered by exemption order — Other departments closed one half-day per week — Whether offence committed — Shops Act, 1950, ss 1 (1) (4) (6), 13 (1)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• R v Gould (John)

  18 Jan 1968 [1968] 2 QB 65; [1968] 2 WLR 643; [1968] 1 All ER 849, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 3 neutral. Subsequent citations: 26.
  CRIME — Bigamy — Mens rea

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Court of Appeal decision — Criminal jurisdiction

  STATUTE — Construction — Criminal offence
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  CRIME — Bigamy — Mens rea — Validity of previous marriage — Honest but mistaken belief on reasonable grounds that previous marriage dissolved — Whether a defence — Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s 57

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Court of Appeal decision — Criminal jurisdiction — Doctrine of stare decisis not applied with rigidity — Opinion that law misapplied or misunderstood in earlier decision — Previous opinions of Court of Appeal or Court of Criminal Appeal

  STATUTE — Construction — Criminal offence — Creation of new criminal offence — Enacting words in absolute terms — Whether to be construed subject to presumption that offence not committed if mind of person doing act innocent — Whether mens rea essential element — Bigamy — Offences against the Person Act, 1861

  5 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• R v Wallett

  11 Mar 1968 [1968] 2 QB 367; [1968] 2 WLR 1199; [1968] 2 All ER 296, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 4.
  CRIME — Homicide — Intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm
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  CRIME — Homicide — Intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm — Subjective test — Stupid and backward boy — Direction that test what ordinary person would foresee from act — Whether misdirection — Criminal Justice Act, 1967, s 8

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• R v Harper; R v De Haan (R v De Haan)

  09 Oct 1967 [1968] 2 QB 108; [1968] 2 WLR 626; [1967] 3 All ER 618, CA

  CRIME — Sentence — Plea
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  CRIME — Sentence — Plea — Guilty — Whether mitigating factor — Crime — Sentence — Plea — Not guilty — Whether warrants severer sentence
• Post Office v Estuary Radio Ltd

  25 May 1967 [1967] 1 WLR 847; [1967] 3 All ER 663; [1967] 2 Lloyd's Rep 34, QBD

  28 Jul 1967 [1968] 2 QB 740; [1967] 1 WLR 1396; [1967] 3 All ER 679; [1967] 2 Lloyd's Rep 299, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive. Subsequent citations: 31.
  BURDEN OF PROOF — Crime — Civil case

  CROWN — Prerogative — Territorial waters

  INTERNATIONAL LAW — Territorial waters — Internal waters
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  BURDEN OF PROOF — Crime — Civil case — Allegation of criminal offence — Whether criminal or civil standard of proof applicable

  BURDEN OF PROOF — Crime — Civil case — Standard of proof — Allegation of criminal offence — Whether criminal or civil standard of proof applicable

  CROWN — Prerogative — Territorial waters — Extent, right to declare — Date for determining extent of territorial waters — Whether restricted to date of Act — Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1949 ss 1 (1), 6 (1), 14 (7) — Territorial Waters Order in Council, 1964, arts 2 (1) (2), 5 (1)

  INTERNATIONAL LAW — Territorial waters — Internal waters — Thames estuary — “Indentation” of the coast — “Natural entrance points” — Whether test cartographical — Whether indentation a “bay” — “Low-tide elevations” — Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1949, ss 1 (1), 6 (1), 14 (7) — Territorial Waters Order in Council, 1964, arts 2, 4, 5 (1)

  3 Case(s) considered

  4 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Millard v Turvey

  26 Feb 1968 [1968] 2 QB 390; [1968] 2 WLR 1192; [1968] 2 All ER 7, DC

  ROAD TRAFFIC — Special type of vehicle — Motor tractor
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  ROAD TRAFFIC — Special type of vehicle — Motor tractor — Definition — “Mechanically propelled vehicle … not constructed itself to carry a load” — Meaning of — Motor chassis — Whether a “motor tractor” — Whether casus omissus in Act — Road Traffic Act, 1960, s 253 (1) (6)

  1 Case considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Postmaster-General v Pearce (Note)

  28 Feb 1923 [1968] 2 QB 463; [1968] 3 WLR 81, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 1.
  POST OFFICE — Telegraphs and telephones — Lines and contrivances
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  POST OFFICE — Telegraphs and telephones — Lines and contrivances — Placing on land — Consent — Landowner failing to consent — “Public interest” — Whether question of fact determinable at time when arising — Failure to consent resulting in denial of telephone service to two households only — Operation of farms inefficient without telephones — Standard of proof — Whether in public interest for farms to be on telephone — Education, medicine and social intercourse — Whether public interest involved in maintaining telephonic communication in remote areas — Telegraph Act, 1878, s 4, as substituted by Railway and Canal Commission (Abolition) Act, 1949, s 2 (1) — Telegraph (Construction) Act, 1916, ss 1, 4

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Duncan v Lambeth London Borough Council (Duncan v Greater London Council (Note))

  10 Nov 1967 [1968] 1 QB 747; [1968] 2 WLR 88; [1968] 1 All ER 84; 66 LGR 257, QBD

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 4.
  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Limitation

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Metropolis

  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Personal injuries — Disability, person under

  METROPOLIS — Greater London — Transfer of functions
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  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Limitation — Exclusion from extension for disability — “In the custody of a parent” — Clarification desirable — Possibility of change of circumstances after accrual of right of action — Appropriate provision that time should not run so long as specified circumstances exist — Limitation Act, 1939, s 22 (as amended)

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Metropolis — Liabilities of London County Council — Infant's claim for damages for personal injuries — Lacuna — London Government Act, 1963, s 84

  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Personal injuries — Disability, person under — Infancy — Infant in care of children's authority — Injury sustained in children's home — Whether “in the custody of a parent” at a time when right of action accrued — Action for damages for negligence brought after expiry of three-year period of limitation — Whether barred by proviso excluding from extension for disability of infants “in the custody of a parent” — Limitation Act, 1939, ss 2 (1), 22 (as amended by Law Reform (Limitation of Actions, etc) Act, 1954, ss 2 (2), 8)

  METROPOLIS — Greater London — Transfer of functions — Liabilities — Children's home — London County Council home transferred to children's authority — Child injured in home while in care of London County Council — Whether liability in respect of claim for damages for personal injuries transferred — “All liabilities attaching to such council in respect of such property” — Children Act, 1948, ss 1, 47, 84 (1) (2) — London Authorities (Property, etc) Order, 1964

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  3 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• R v East Riding of Yorkshire Quarter Sessions, Ex p Newton (Newton v Farmer)

  04 Jul 1967 [1968] 1 QB 32; [1967] 3 WLR 1098; [1967] 3 All ER 118; 65 LGR 483, CA

  26 Oct 1967 (pet dis) [1967] 1 WLR 1504, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  JUSTICES — Quarter sessions — Jurisdiction

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Music

  LICENSING — Justices — Jurisdiction
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  JUSTICES — Quarter sessions — Jurisdiction — Appeal from licensing justices — Licensing justices refusing to renew public music, singing and dancing licence — Whether licensing justices “court of summary jurisdiction” — Whether “magistrates' court” — Whether appeal lies to quarter sessions — Interpretation Act, 1889, ss 13 (11), 38 (1) — Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, s 51 — Public Health Act, 1936, s 301 — Magistrates' Courts Act, 1952, ss 87, 124, Sch 6

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Music — Right to stop it being heard?

  LICENSING — Justices — Jurisdiction — Public music, singing and dancing licence — Grant, renewal or refusal — Whether licensing justices “court of summary jurisdiction” — Whether “magistrates' court” — Whether right of appeal to quarter sessions

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  4 Statutes considered
• Lawrence v Same

  22 Feb 1968 [1968] 2 QB 93; [1968] 2 WLR 1002; [1968] 1 All ER 1191, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 2.
  JUSTICES — Appeal to quarter sessions — Jurisdiction

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Justices
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  JUSTICES — Appeal to quarter sessions — Jurisdiction — Appeal to quarter sessions against conviction for malicious wounding — Conviction for common assault substituted — Whether jurisdiction in quarter sessions or justices to convict of lesser offence

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Justices — Inability to substitute lesser sentence on appeal

  2 Case(s) considered