Results: 132

• Cunningham v Harrison

  17 May 1973 [1973] QB 942; [1973] 3 WLR 97; [1973] 3 All ER 463, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 29.
  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Nursing expenses and accommodation
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  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Nursing expenses and accommodation — Effect of aid from statutory and voluntary organisations — Whether cost of specially designed bungalow recoverable — Whether damages to be reduced for employers' ex gratia payments — Relevance of effect of inflation

  4 Case(s) considered

• Chelmsford Auctions Ltd v Poole

  19 Dec 1972 [1973] QB 542; [1973] 2 WLR 219; [1973] 1 All ER 810, CA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  AGENCY — Auctioneer — Right to sue
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  AGENCY — Auctioneer — Right to sue — Car sold at auction subject to printed conditions of sale — Purchaser paying auctioneers sufficient to cover commission — Refusal to pay balance of purchase price — Car retained by auctioneers after paying whole price to vendor — Action by auctioneers in own name against purchaser for balance of price — Whether auctioneers' lien over goods in possession continuing after receipt of sum covering their commission and charges

  5 Case(s) considered
• R v Bogacki

  19 Mar 1973 [1973] QB 832; [1973] 2 WLR 937; [1973] 2 All ER 864; [1973] RTR 384; 57 Cr App R 593, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 2.
  CRIME — Theft — Taking conveyance without authority
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  CRIME — Theft — Taking conveyance without authority — Unauthorised possession of conveyance — No movement — Whether complete offence committed — Theft Act 1968, s 12 (1)

  1 Statute considered

• R v Hall (Peter Barnabas)

  20 Oct 1972 [1973] QB 496; [1972] 3 WLR 974; [1973] 1 All ER 1; 57 Cr App R 170, CA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  CRIME — Evidence — Retrial
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  CRIME — Evidence — Retrial — Witness giving evidence at trial — Jury failing to agree — Witness dying before retrial — Admissibility of transcript of witness's evidence

  3 Case(s) considered
• R v Andrews

  30 Nov 1972 [1973] QB 422; [1973] 2 WLR 116; [1973] 1 All ER 857; [1973] RTR 508; 57 Cr App R 254, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 7.
  CRIME — Common law offence — Attempt to pervert course of justice
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  CRIME — Common law offence — Attempt to pervert course of justice — Witness of traffic accident offering in return for payment to give false evidence in court — Charge of incitement to pervert course of public justice — Whether substantive offence — Whether incitement so to act possible

  3 Case(s) considered
• R v Epping and Harlow Justices, Ex parte Massaro (Massaro, Ex parte, Massaro v Epping and Harlow Justices)

  15 Dec 1972 [1973] QB 433; [1973] 2 WLR 158; [1973] 1 All ER 1011; 57 Cr App R 499, DC

  14 Jun 1973 (pet dis) [1973] 1 WLR 844, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 4.
  JUSTICES — Committal proceedings — Prima facie case
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  JUSTICES — Committal proceedings — Prima facie case — Sexual assault on young girl — Prima facie case established by supporting evidence — Whether prosecution bound to call victim as witness in committal proceedings
• R v Bentham (Bentham v Hampshire Chief Constable, R v Baillie)

  19 May 1972 [1973] QB 357; [1972] 3 WLR 398; [1972] 3 All ER 271; 56 Cr App R 618, CA

  28 Jul 1972 (pet dis) [1972] 1 WLR 1381, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 9.
  CRIME — Firearms — Possession with intent

  JUSTICES — Jurisdiction — Imprisonment
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  CRIME — Firearms — Possession with intent — Intent to endanger life — Whether must be immediate and unconditional — Firearms Act 1968, s 16 (as amended by Criminal Damage Act 1971, s 11 (8), Sch, Pt I)

  JUSTICES — Jurisdiction — Imprisonment — Total sentence not to be excessive for whole course of crime

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• Bellingham v Dhillon

  30 May 1972 [1973] QB 304; [1972] 3 WLR 730; [1973] 1 All ER 20, QBD

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 7.
  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Loss of business profits
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  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Loss of business profits — Plaintiff negotiating to buy expensive equipment at time of accident — Plaintiff unable to continue negotiations — Claim for profit accruing to business if equipment purchased — Plaintiff later buying equipment at lower cost — Whether cost of equipment to be set off against loss of profits in assessing damages for tortious act

  1 Case considered
• Attorney-General ex rel McWhirter v Independent Broadcasting Authority (McWhirter v Independent Broadcasting Authority)

  05 Feb 1973 [1973] QB 629; [1973] 2 WLR 344; [1973] 1 All ER 689, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 16.
  INJUNCTION — Relator action — Public interest

  STATUTORY DUTY — Statutory authority — Independent Broadcasting Authority
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  INJUNCTION — Relator action — Public interest — Scheduled television programme — Newspaper criticisms — Attorney-General's refusal to move ex officio for injunction — Action by private citizen to prevent showing of programme — Locus standi — Whether relator action essential

  STATUTORY DUTY — Statutory authority — Independent Broadcasting Authority — Duty to “satisfy themselves” — Scheduled television programme prima facie including indecent and offensive matter — Staff advice to authority — Newspaper criticisms — Whether authority obliged to view programme — Whether authority's decision, that programme not offensive, reasonable — Television Act 1964, ss 3 (1) (a), 18, 24

  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• R v Quick (R v Paddison)

  18 Apr 1973 [1973] QB 910; [1973] 3 WLR 26; [1973] 3 All ER 347; 57 Cr App R 722, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 17.
  CRIME — Insanity — Automatism
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  CRIME — Insanity — Automatism — Assault — Defence that accused suffering from hypoglycaemia — Medical evidence — Ruling by judge that evidence relevant only to plea of insanity — Whether hypoglycaemia disease of the mind — Whether duty of judge to leave defence of automatism to jury

  2 Case(s) considered