Results: 100

• Roberts v Johnstone

  17 Mar 1988 [1989] QB 878; [1988] 3 WLR 1247, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 27.
  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Accommodation

  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Nursing
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  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Accommodation — New accommodation necessitated by plaintiff's injuries — Cost of converting premises to meet plaintiff's needs — Measure of damages — Calculation of annual cost of accommodation

  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Nursing — Pre-trial care and attendance of plaintiff provided by adoptive mother — Damages awarded for notional cost of employing persons to provide care and attendance — Whether general or special damages — Appropriate rate of interest on award

  4 Case(s) considered

• Commission for Racial Equality v Dutton

  27 Jul 1988 [1989] QB 783; [1989] 2 WLR 17; [1989] 1 All ER 306, CA

  Subsequent citations: 15.
  DISCRIMINATION, RACE — Racial group — Gipsy
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  DISCRIMINATION, RACE — Racial group — Gipsy — Signs displayed at public house that “travellers” not served — Whether words synonymous with gypsies — Whether signs indicating intention to discriminate on grounds of “ethnic origins” — Race Relations Act 1976, ss 1(1)(a)(b), 3(1), 29(1)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered
• Pittalis v Grant

  10 Mar 1989 [1989] QB 605; [1989] 3 WLR 139; [1989] 2 All ER 622, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 55.
  COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) — County court — Appeal from

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Security of tenure — Subtenancy
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  COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) — County court — Appeal from — Counsel's concession of point of law without argument in county court — Withdrawal of concession — Whether Court of Appeal to consider point of law

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Security of tenure — Subtenancy — Lease of business premises comprising shop and flat — Lessee creating subtenancy of residential flat giving rise to statutory tenancy — Surrender of lease — Whether subtenancy secured on surrender of lease — Whether flat “premises” — Rent Act 1977, s 137(3) (as amended by Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, s 100, Sch 14, para 60)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Attorney-General v News Group Newspapers Ltd

  30 Apr 1986 [1987] QB 1; [1986] 3 WLR 365; [1986] 2 All ER 833, CA

  19 Feb 1988 [1989] QB 110; [1988] 3 WLR 163; [1988] 2 All ER 906; 87 Cr App R 323, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 20.
  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Pending proceedings — Prejudicing fair trial

  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Pending proceedings — “Strict liability rule”
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  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Pending proceedings — Prejudicing fair trial — Newspaper articles alleging rape of child by doctor — Newspaper encouraging private prosecution — Private prosecution subsequently undertaken with newspaper's financial help — Whether proceedings pending or imminent at time of publication of articles — Whether contempt of court

  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Pending proceedings — “Strict liability rule” — Newspaper intending to publish article covering same ground as earlier articles in different newspaper — Earlier articles subject of libel actions — Trial not due to take place for 10 months — Whether “substantial risk” of serious prejudice to course of justice — Contempt of Court Act 1981, s 2(2)(3)

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered
• R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex parte Northumbria Police Authority (Northumbria Police Authority, Ex parte)

  19 Dec 1986 [1989] QB 26; [1987] 2 WLR 998; [1988] 2 WLR 998; [1987] 2 All ER 282, DC

  18 Nov 1987 [1989] QB 26; [1988] 2 WLR 590; [1988] 1 All ER 556, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 15.
  CROWN — Prerogative — Statute, application to

  POLICE — Secretary of State's powers — Central services
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  CROWN — Prerogative — Statute, application to — Minister establishing central store of police riot equipment — Chief constables enabled to obtain supplies therefrom without consent of local police authority — Whether minister's prerogative powers in maintaining peace sufficient to justify supply of equipment without consent of police authority — Whether prerogative powers limited by statute — Police Act 1964, ss 4(4), 41

  POLICE — Secretary of State's powers — Central services — Police riot equipment — Minister establishing central store — Chief constables able to obtain supplies without consent of local police authority — Whether Minister empowered to maintain central store — Whether entitled to supply equipment without consent of police authority — Whether monopoly power conferred on police authority in relation to supply of equipment — Police Act 1964, ss 4(4), 41

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• The Powstaniec Weilkopolski

  Subsequent citations: 3.
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  1 Words & Phrases considered

• R v Inner West London Coroner, Ex parte De Luca (De Luca, Ex parte)

  30 Mar 1988 [1989] QB 249; [1988] 3 WLR 286; [1988] 3 All ER 414, DC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CORONER — Inquest — Verdict
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  CORONER — Inquest — Verdict — Death more than year and day after self-inflicted injury — Verdict of suicide — Validity — Whether year and day rule applicable to suicide

  2 Statutes considered
• Gisborne v Burton

  21 Jul 1988 [1989] QB 390; [1988] 3 WLR 921; [1988] 3 All ER 775, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 19.
  AGRICULTURAL HOLDING — Notice to quit — Counter-notice
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  AGRICULTURAL HOLDING — Notice to quit — Counter-notice — Landlord granting tenancy to wife and wife contemporaneously granting subtenancy — Wife given notice to quit not serving counter-notice — Whether subtenant having statutory protection — Agricultural Holdings Act 1948, s 24(1)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• United States of America v Inkley

  25 Mar 1988 [1989] QB 255; [1988] 3 WLR 304; [1988] 3 All ER 144, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 7.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Foreign judgment — Jurisdiction to enforce
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Foreign judgment — Jurisdiction to enforce — Appearance bond given to secure attendance at criminal trial — Judgment in foreign court for amount of bond — Whether enforcement of public law remedy in nature of penal proceedings — Whether claim within jurisdiction of English courts

  2 Case(s) considered

• Atlas Express Ltd v Kafco (Importers and Distributors) Ltd

  10 Jan 1989 [1989] QB 833; [1989] 3 WLR 389; [1989] 1 All ER 641, QBD

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CONTRACT — Validity — Economic duress
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  CONTRACT — Validity — Economic duress — Contract for carriage of goods — Carriers requiring signing of new agreement increasing contractual charges — Whether new agreement vitiated by duress

  1 Case considered