Results: 98

• Brooks Associates Inc v Basu

  20 Jul 1982 [1983] QB 220; [1983] 2 WLR 141; [1983] 1 All ER 508, QBD

  CROWN — Attachment of debt — National Savings Bank
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  CROWN — Attachment of debt — National Savings Bank — Judgment creditor seeking attachment of moneys in debtor's investment deposit account with bank — Account not with specific branch of bank — Bank's head office situated in Scotland — Whether bank within jurisdiction of English courts — Crown Proceedings Act 1947, s 27(1) (as amended by Post Office Act 1969, s 94, Sch 6 and Supreme Court Act 1981, s 139(1))

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• The Despina GK

  09 Jul 1982 [1983] QB 214; [1982] 3 WLR 950; [1983] 1 All ER 1; [1983] 2 Lloyd's Rep 555, QBD

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  ADMIRALTY — Arrest of ship — Jurisdiction
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  ADMIRALTY — Arrest of ship — Jurisdiction — Cargo owners obtaining final judgment against shipowner in foreign admiralty court — Part of judgment debt unpaid — Ship still in same ownership entering English port — Cargo owners issuing writ for sum outstanding — Whether court having jurisdiction to issue warrant of arrest on ship

  3 Case(s) considered
• R v Lambeth Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, Ex parte McComb (McComb, Ex parte)

  15 Nov 1982 [1983] QB 551; [1983] 2 WLR 259; [1983] 1 All ER 321; 76 Cr App R 246, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 12.
  COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) — Jurisdiction — Criminal cause or matter

  CRIME — Evidence — Committal proceedings
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  COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) — Jurisdiction — Criminal cause or matter — Declaration by High Court concerning prosecutor's duties in committal proceedings — Whether judgment in criminal cause or matter — Whether appeal from High Court to Court of Appeal (Civil Division) — Supreme Court Act 1981, s 18(1)(a)

  CRIME — Evidence — Committal proceedings — Exhibits — Responsibility of court to retain and preserve exhibits produced at committal proceedings — Exhibits in custody of prosecutor — Whether prosecutor prohibited from removing exhibits from jurisdiction without leave of court

  4 Case(s) considered

• R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex parte Margueritte (Margueritte, Ex parte)

  19 Jul 1982 [1983] QB 180; [1982] 3 WLR 754; [1982] 3 All ER 909, CA

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  NATIONALITY — Registration as citizen — “Overstayer”
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  NATIONALITY — Registration as citizen — “Overstayer” — Immigrant overstaying limited leave of entry — Subsequent grant of indefinite leave — Whether “ordinarily resident” in United Kingdom while in breach of immigration laws — British Nationality Act 1948, s 5A(3) — Immigration Act 1971, ss 2(5), 33(2), Sch 1, paras 1, 2, AppA

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• George Mitchell (Chesterhall) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd

  [1981] 1 Lloyd's Rep 476

  29 Sep 1982 [1983] QB 284; [1982] 3 WLR 1036; [1983] 1 All ER 108; [1983] 1 Lloyd's Rep 168, CA

  09 Dec 1982 (pet all) [1983] 2 AC 803; [1983] 1 WLR 1; [1983] 3 WLR 163; [1983] 2 All ER 737; [1983] 2 Lloyd's Rep 272, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 42.
  SALE OF GOODS — Exemption clause — Limitation of liability
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  SALE OF GOODS — Exemption clause — Limitation of liability — Supply of commercially useless seed of wrong description — Condition limiting liability — Vendors' negligence — Whether “fair or reasonable to allow reliance” upon term — Sale of Goods Act 1979, s 55(4)(5) (substituted by s 55(3) and Sch 1, para 11)

  10 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered
• Verrall v Hackney London Borough Council

  18 Nov 1982 [1983] QB 445; [1983] 2 WLR 202; [1983] 1 All ER 277; 81 LGR 217, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  RATING — Rateable occupation — Unincorporated association
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  RATING — Rateable occupation — Unincorporated association — Use of premises for purposes connected with political organisation — Prominent member of organisation rated and assessed for rates — Whether defence of non-occupation available on distress warrant summons — Whether unincorporated association or member can be occupier of premises — Test of actual exclusive occupation — General Rate Act 1967, ss 7(1) (as amended by Courts Act 1971 and Crown Court Rules 1971) (2), 96(1)

  8 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Chief Constable of Kent v V

  06 May 1982 [1983] QB 34; [1982] 3 WLR 462; [1982] 3 All ER 36, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 6 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 26.
  INJUNCTION — Detention or preservation of property — Proceeds of crime
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  INJUNCTION — Detention or preservation of property — Proceeds of crime — Defendant's bank account — Police reasonably believing account to contain money fraudulently obtained — Possibility of defendant dissipating moneys before trial — Whether chief constable having locus standi to apply for injunction to freeze bank account — Whether “just and convenient” to grant injunction — Supreme Court Act 1981, s 37(1)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

• Power Packing Casemakers Ltd v Faust

  17 Dec 1980 [1981] ICR 484, EAT

  18 Jan 1983 [1983] QB 471; [1983] 2 WLR 439; [1983] ICR 292; [1983] 2 All ER 166, CA

  Subsequent citations: 11.
  EMPLOYMENT — Unfair dismissal — Industrial action
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  EMPLOYMENT — Unfair dismissal — Industrial action — Refusal to work overtime — No breach of contract — Whether employees taking part in “other industrial action” — Whether jurisdiction to hear complaints of unfair dismissal — Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978, s 62(1)(b)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

• Adsett v West

  18 Feb 1983 [1983] QB 826; [1983] 3 WLR 437; [1983] 2 All ER 985, QBD

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  DAMAGES — Earnings, loss of — Loss of expectation of life
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  DAMAGES — Earnings, loss of — Loss of expectation of life — Death of young man — Single man's prospect of marriage — Likelihood of inheriting from rich father — Administrator's claim on behalf of estate — Calculation of compensation for lost years

  4 Case(s) considered

• Catlin v Cyprus Finance Corpn (London) Ltd

  26 Oct 1982 [1983] QB 759; [1983] 2 WLR 566; [1983] 1 All ER 809; The Times, 27 October 1982, QBD (Bingham J)

  BANKING — Joint account — Joint signatories
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  BANKING — Joint account — Joint signatories — Mandate to honour instructions signed by both account holders — Bank debiting account on instructions of single signatory — Whether bank's liability to account holders joint and several — Whether both account holders to be parties to action against bank

  2 Case(s) considered