Results: 102

• Norfolk Capital Group Ltd v Kitway Ltd

  30 Jun 1976 [1977] QB 506; [1976] 3 WLR 796; [1976] 3 All ER 787, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Assignment of lease or underletting — Consent
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Assignment of lease or underletting — Consent — Covenant not to assign without consent — Landlords' refusal on ground of potential eligibility for benefit of leasehold enfranchisement — Potential detriment to landlords' proprietary interests — Whether landlords' refusal of consent reasonable
• Weston v Central Criminal Court Courts Administrator

  02 Apr 1976 [1977] QB 32; [1976] 3 WLR 103; [1976] 2 All ER 875, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 4.
  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Solicitor — Discourtesy and breach of duty
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  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Solicitor — Discourtesy and breach of duty — Protest over premature listing of criminal trial — Client sent to court unrepresented — Offensive letters to court officer — Judge's direction that solicitor attend to explain conduct conveyed to solicitor by client — Solicitor not complying with direction — Whether contempt punishable by order to pay costs

  3 Case(s) considered
• Cookson v Knowles

  29 Jul 1977 [1977] QB 913; [1977] 3 WLR 279; [1977] 2 All ER 820; [1977] 2 Lloyd's Rep 412, CA

  24 May 1978 [1979] AC 556; [1978] 2 WLR 978; [1978] 2 All ER 604; [1978] 2 Lloyd's Rep 315, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 9 positive; 5 neutral; 4 negative. Subsequent citations: 62.
  FATAL ACCIDENTS ACTS — Damages — Assessment

  INTEREST — Award of damages — Personal injury cases
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  FATAL ACCIDENTS ACTS — Damages — Assessment — Pecuniary loss to widow and children — Division into two parts by date of trial — Interest at half rate to date of trial — No interest on sum for pain, suffering and loss of amenities

  INTEREST — Award of damages — Personal injury cases — Sum for pain, suffering and loss of amenities — Fatal accident claims — Interest on sum for pecuniary loss to date of trial

  9 Case(s) considered

• Brintons Ltd v Wyre Forest District Council

  12 Apr 1976 [1977] QB 178; [1976] 3 WLR 749; [1977] 1 All ER 836; 75 LGR 317, QBD

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  EXECUTION — Distress — Cost of levying

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Execution
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  EXECUTION — Distress — Cost of levying — Payment by debtor before seizure of goods — Whether bailiff entitled to costs — General Rate Act 1967, ss 101 (1), 105 (2)

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Execution — Costs of attending to levy distress — Minister's order — Distress for Rates Order 1972

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Campden Hill Towers Ltd v Gardner

  24 Nov 1976 [1977] QB 823; [1977] 2 WLR 159; [1977] 1 All ER 739, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 7.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Repairs — Covenant, implied
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Repairs — Covenant, implied — Third floor flat in block of flats let on seven years' lease — External walls expressly excluded from demise — Service charge payable on account of repairs carried out by lessor — Statutory obligation on lessor to keep in repair structure and exterior of dwelling house and installations — Extent of obligation — Housing Act 1961, s 32 (1) (a) (b)

  1 Statute considered
• R v Whitehouse

  18 Feb 1977 [1977] QB 868; [1977] 2 WLR 925; [1977] 3 All ER 737; 65 Cr App R 33, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 5.
  CRIME — Sexual offences — Incest
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  CRIME — Sexual offences — Incest — Daughter under 16 — Whether offence for father to incite her to commit incest — Whether offence to incite her to aid and abet him to have sexual intercourse with her consent — Sexual Offences Act 1956, ss 10 (1), 11 (1)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Cummings v Granger

  19 Mar 1975 [1975] 1 WLR 1330; [1975] 2 All ER 1129, QBD

  26 May 1976 [1977] QB 397; [1976] 3 WLR 842; [1977] 1 All ER 104, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 8.
  LORD DENNING M.R. This is the case of the barmaid who was badly bitten by a big dog. It was a guard dog, an Alsatian about two years old. It kept guard over a yard next to the Maypole public house in East London. The yard was used for storing and selling scrap motor cars and scrap metal, and so forth. It was enclosed by high walls and a high wire fence. During the day-time customers came to the yard. To protect them, the owner, the defendant, kept the dog secure in an old van from which it could not
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  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Miliangos v George Frank (Textiles) Ltd (No 2)

  12 May 1976 [1977] QB 489; [1976] 3 WLR 477; [1976] 3 All ER 599; [1976] 2 Lloyd's Rep 434, QBD

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 5.
  INTEREST — Foreign debt — Judgment for moneys due
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  INTEREST — Foreign debt — Judgment for moneys due — English judgment expressed in foreign currency — Interest payable under proper law — Rate of interest governed by lex fori

  2 Case(s) considered

• Avenue Properties (St John’s Wood) Ltd v Aisinzon

  16 Mar 1976 [1977] QB 628; [1976] 2 WLR 740; [1976] 2 All ER 177, CA

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Notice of increase
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Notice of increase — Statutory regulated tenancy — Rent payable quarterly in advance — Fair rent registered — Notice served on tenant specifying date when new rent to take effect — Date specified not commencement of statutory period — Whether notice valid — Rent Act 1968, ss 22 (2) (3), 38 (1)

  1 Statute considered
• R v Howells (Comr of Police of the Metropolis v Howells)

  18 Feb 1977 [1977] QB 614; [1977] 2 WLR 716; [1977] 3 All ER 417; 65 Cr App R 86, CA

  28 Apr 1977 (pet dis) [1977] 1 WLR 526, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 4.
  CRIME — Firearms — Antiques
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  CRIME — Firearms — Antiques — No certificate — Belief honestly held on reasonable grounds of firearm being antique firearm — Whether defence to charge of possession without certificate — Whether absolute offence — “Antique firearm … possessed as a curiosity or ornament” — Firearms Act 1968, ss 1 (1) (a), 58 (2)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered