Results: 49

• Richardson v Pitt-Stanley

  29 Jul 1994 [1995] QB 123; [1995] 2 WLR 26; [1995] ICR 303; [1995] 1 All ER 460, CA

  Subsequent citations: 9.
  INSURANCE — Liability insurance — Employer's liability
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  INSURANCE — Liability insurance — Employer's liability — Company failing to insure against liability for injury to employees — Plaintiff employee injured in course of work — Whether plaintiff having civil cause of action against company or its officers for breach of statutory duty to insure — Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969, ss 1(1), 5

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• R v Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd, Ex parte Bowden (R v Investors Compensation Board, Ex parte Bowden)

  16 Feb 1993 [1994] 1 WLR 17; [1994] 1 All ER 525; [1994] 1 BCLC 494; (1993) 143 NLJ 1297; The Times, 22 February 1993; The Independent, 17 February 1993, DC (Mann LJ and Tuckey J)

  24 Jun 1994 [1995] QB 107; [1994] 3 WLR 1045; [1995] 1 All ER 214; [1995] 1 BCLC 374; The Times, 30 June 1994; The Independent, 29 August 1994, CA (Balcombe, Rose LJJ and Hutchison J)

  16 Dec 1994 (pet all) [1996] AC 261; [1995] 1 WLR 157; [1995] 3 WLR 289; [1995] 3 All ER 605; [1995] 2 BCLC 342; [1995] CLC 1259; (1995) 145 NLJ 1260; The Times, 18 July 1995; The Independent, 21 July 1995, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 6.
  FINANCIAL SERVICES — Compensation — Statutory scheme
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  FINANCIAL SERVICES — Compensation — Statutory scheme — Investors suffering losses as result of advice given by broker in contravention of Act — Moneys received and expended in reliance on soundness of investment — Whether recoverable — Whether limit on professional fees incurred in mitigating loss lawful — Whether elements not essential for fair compensation to be excluded from investors' claims — Financial Services (Compensation of Investors) Rules 1990, r 204

  FINANCIAL SERVICES — Compensation — Statutory scheme — Investors suffering losses as result of advice brokers giving in contravention of Act — Whether compensation to be equal to defaulting broker's civil liability — Whether credit to be given for moneys received and expended — Whether liability for mental and physical distress — Whether refusal to indemnify investors against costs of future action on behalf of scheme reasonable — Whether personal representatives able to make claims for compensation — Financial Services (Compensation of Investors) Rules 1990, r 204

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Mortgage Express Ltd v Bowerman & Partners

  17 May 1994 [1994] 2 EGLR 156, Ch D (Arden J)

  20 Feb 1995 [1995] QB 375; [1995] 2 WLR 607; [1995] 2 All ER 769, CA

  11 Jul 1995 (No 2) [1996] 2 All ER 836, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 41.
  SOLICITOR — Duty — Conflict of interest
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  SOLICITOR — Duty — Conflict of interest — Solicitor acting for both purchaser and mortgagee in conveyancing transaction — Solicitor receiving information that vendor buying property in simultaneous transaction — Vendor paying price much lower either than price being paid by purchaser or valuation of property — Solicitor communicating information to purchaser but not to mortgagee — Whether solicitor in breach of duty to mortgagee

  1 Case considered
• Beoco Ltd v Alfa Laval Co Ltd

  21 Dec 1993 [1995] QB 137; [1994] 3 WLR 1179; [1994] 4 All ER 464, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 23.
  DAMAGES — Contract — Breach of warranty

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Amendment
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  DAMAGES — Contract — Breach of warranty — Defendant supplying defective heat exchanger to plaintiff — Heat exchanger imperfectly repaired — Plaintiff failing to test it properly after repair — Heat exchanger destroyed by explosion — Plaintiffs claim for loss of profit resulting from explosion and for loss which would have arisen from repair but for explosion — Whether defendant liable

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Amendment — Claim for breach of warranty — Amendment at trial of action to add alternative claim — Whether leave to amend properly granted

  3 Case(s) considered

• R v Dorset County Council, Ex parte Rolls

  (1994) 92 LGR 398

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Powers — Gipsies
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Powers — Gipsies — Occupation of local authority land without authorisation — Occupiers claiming to be gipsies — Whether travelling for purposes of obtaining livelihood necessary — Whether for council to determine whether occupiers “gipsies” — Whether issue to be decided by court as precedent fact — Caravan Sites Act 1968, ss 6 (as amended by Local Government Act 1985, s 16, Sch 8, para 11), 16

  1 Case considered
• R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex parte H (H, Ex parte, Hickey, Ex parte)

  19 Jul 1994 [1995] QB 43; [1994] 3 WLR 1110; [1995] 1 All ER 479, CA

  13 Feb 1995 (pet dis) [1995] 1 WLR 385, HL(E)

  18 May 1995 (pet dis) [1995] 1 WLR 830, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2002. Subsequent citations: 14.
  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Release on licence
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  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Release on licence — Prisoner serving life sentence transferred to mental hospital — Secretary of State refusing to certify for review or refer case to Parole Board — Whether “life prisoner” whilst detained in mental hospital — Whether right to consideration for release on licence conferred on mental patients — Whether Secretary of State entitled to await outcome of mental health review tribunal hearing before deciding whether to release on licence — Mental Health Act 1983, s 50(1) — Criminal Justice Act 1991, ss 34, 35(2), Sch 12, para 9

  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Duke of Westminster v Birrane

  10 Nov 1994 [1995] QB 262; [1995] 2 WLR 270; [1995] 3 All ER 416; [1995] 1 EGLR 89; (1995) 27 HLR 321; [1995] 11 EG 141; The Times, 17 November 1994; The Independent, 19 December 1994, CA (Nourse, Mann and Saville LJJ)

  05 Apr 1995 (pet dis) [1995] 1 WLR 648, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 6.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Leasehold enfranchisement — Adjoining properties
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Leasehold enfranchisement — Adjoining properties — Mews property not structurally detached including basement area lying below adjoining property — Tenant seeking to acquire freehold — Whether mews property without basement area “house” — Whether basement area “material part” of house — Whether tenant entitled to enfranchisement — Leasehold Reform Act 1967, ss 1(1), 2(1)(2)

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Banque Bruxelles Lambert SA v Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd (BNP Mortgages Ltd v Goadsby & Harding Ltd, BNP Mortgages Ltd v Key Surveyors Nationwide Ltd, United Bank of Kuwait Plc v Prudential Property Services Ltd, South Australia Asset Management Corpn v York Montague Ltd)

  21 Dec 1993 (Unreported), QBD (Phillips J)

  20 Feb 1995 [1995] QB 375; [1995] 2 WLR 607; [1995] 2 All ER 769, CA

  20 Jun 1996 [1997] AC 191; [1996] 3 WLR 87; [1996] 3 All ER 365, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 15 positive; 5 neutral; 3 negative; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 223.
  DAMAGES — Measure of damages — Surveyor's report
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  DAMAGES — Measure of damages — Surveyor's report — Plaintiffs lending money on basis of surveyor's negligent valuation — Subsequent general fall in property market and default by borrowers in repayment of loans — Plaintiffs obtaining possession and selling properties at price below valuation — Whether loss attributable to market fall recoverable

  12 Case(s) considered

• R v Comr of Police of the Metropolis, Ex parte Bennett (Bennett, Ex parte)

  01 Nov 1994 [1995] QB 313; [1995] 2 WLR 598; [1995] 3 All ER 248, DC

  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Court's jurisdiction — Execution of Scottish warrant
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  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Court's jurisdiction — Execution of Scottish warrant — Divisional Court holding prosecution of defendant in England abuse of process — Defendant seeking to restrain execution in England and Wales of warrant issued in Scotland — Whether court having jurisdiction to grant injunction — Whether execution of warrant abuse of process — Union with Scotland Act 1706, art XIX

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Westland Helicopters Ltd v Arab Organisation for Industrialisation

  03 Aug 1994 [1995] QB 282; [1995] 2 WLR 126; [1995] 2 All ER 387; [1994] 2 Lloyd's Rep 608, QBD

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 13.
  INTERNATIONAL LAW — Treaty — International organisation
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  INTERNATIONAL LAW — Treaty — International organisation — Recognition — Arms manufacturing industry created by treaty between four Arab states — Organisation accorded juridical personality — Organisation excluded from application of domestic law of member states — Three states declaring organisation to be liquidated — Fourth state purporting by means of domestic laws to continue existence of organisation — Whether continuing organisation same body as liquidated organisation

  2 Case(s) considered