Results: 96

• R v Goodwin (Mark)

  07 Dec 2005 [2005] EWCA Crim 3184; [2006] 1 WLR 546; [2006] 2 All ER 519; [2006] 2 All ER (Comm) 281; [2006] 1 Lloyd's Rep 432; [2006] 1 Cr App R 354, CA

  06 Mar 2006 (pet dis) [2006] 1 WLR 780, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 14.
  SHIPPING — Collision — Water ski-ing
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  SHIPPING — Collision — Water ski-ing — Jet skier in collision with stationary jet ski — Whether jet ski “vessel used in navigation” — Whether “sea-going” — Whether “ship” within Merchant Shipping Acts — Whether jet skier “master” of jet ski — Merchant Shipping Act 1995, ss 58(2)(b), 313(1) — Merchant Shipping Act 1970 (Unregistered Ships) Regulations 1991, reg 4

  3 Case(s) considered

  4 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Jameson v Central Electricity Generating Board

  13 Feb 1997 (Babcock Energy Ltd (Third Party)) [1998] QB 323; [1997] 3 WLR 151; [1997] 4 All ER 38; [1997] PIQR Q89; The Times, 25 February 1997, CA (Nourse and Auld LJJ and Sir Patrick Russell)

  16 Dec 1998 [2000] 1 AC 455; [1999] 2 WLR 141; [1999] 1 All ER 193; [1999] 1 Lloyd's Rep 573; [1999] PIQR Q81; The Times, 17 December 1998, HL(E) (Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hope of Craighead and Lord Clyde)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 negative. Subsequent citations: 37.
  TORT — Joint tortfeasors — Concurrent tortfeasors
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  TORT — Joint tortfeasors — Concurrent tortfeasors — Contribution — Plaintiff agreeing “full and final” settlement of personal injury claim against one tortfeasor — Settlement less than full value of claim — Plaintiff's widow bringing dependency claim against concurrent tortfeasor — Whether settlement satisfying claim against concurrent tortfeasor — Whether bar to dependency claim — Whether concurrent tortfeasor entitled to seek contribution — Fatal Accidents Act 1976 (c. 30), s. 1(1) (as substituted by Administration of Justice Act 1982 (c. 53), s. 3(1)) — Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978 (c. 47), ss. 1, 7

  TORT — Joint tortfeasors — Concurrent tortfeasors — Contribution — Plaintiff agreeing “full and final” settlement of personal injury claim against one tortfeasor — Settlement less than full value of claim — Plaintiff's widow bringing dependency claim against concurrent tortfeasor — Whether settlement satisfying claim against concurrent tortfeasor — Whether bar to dependency claim — Fatal Accidents Act 1976 (c. 30), s. 1(1) (as substituted by Administration of Justice Act 1982 (c. 53), s. 3(1))

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

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

  04 Dec 1997 [1998] QB 963; [1998] 3 WLR 36; [1998] 1 All ER 711, CA

  FINANCIAL SERVICES — Compensation — Statutory scheme
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  FINANCIAL SERVICES — Compensation — Statutory scheme — Investment made before scheme coming into effect misappropriated by broker — Applicant ignorant of misappropriation reinvesting after establishment of scheme — Whether claim for compensation based on civil liability incurred after scheme came into force — Whether compensation payable — Financial Services Act 1986, s 54 — Financial Services (Compensation of Investors) Rules 1990, r 102(3)

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Van Horn v Cinnamond

  09 Oct 1997 (Case C-163/95); (Case C-221/95); EU:C:1997:47; EU:C:1997:472; [1998] QB 214; [1998] 2 WLR 104; [1997] ECR I-5451, ECJ

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 2.
  PRACTICE — Stay of proceedings — Jurisdiction under European Convention
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  PRACTICE — Stay of proceedings — Jurisdiction under European Convention — Proceedings instituted in two contracting states — First proceedings commenced before entry into force of Brussels Convention in both states — Second proceedings commenced after that date — Whether court second seised to stay proceedings or decline jurisdiction — Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 (as amended), art. 21 — Convention of 26 May 1989 on the accession of Spain and Portugal (O.J. 1989 L. 285, p. 1), art. 29(1)

  1 Case considered

  2 EU Enactments considered
• Crédit Suisse Fides Trust SA v Cuoghi

  11 Jun 1997 [1998] QB 818; [1997] 3 WLR 871; [1997] 3 All ER 673, CA

  23 Feb 1998 (pet dis) [1998] 1 WLR 474, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 6 neutral. Subsequent citations: 55.
  INJUNCTION — Mareva injunction — Jurisdiction
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  INJUNCTION — Mareva injunction — Jurisdiction — Civil proceedings in foreign state against defendant resident and domiciled in England — Plaintiff seeking worldwide injunction and disclosure order in support of foreign proceedings — Whether jurisdiction to grant relief — Whether appropriate — Whether defendant entitled to claim privilege against self-incrimination — Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, s 25 (as amended by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991, s 3, Sch 2, para 12)

  2 Case(s) considered

• R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex p Hindley

  18 Dec 1997 [1998] QB 751; [1998] 2 WLR 505, DC

  05 Nov 1998 [2000] QB 152; [1999] 2 WLR 1253, CA

  30 Mar 2000 [2001] 1 AC 410; [2000] 2 WLR 730; [2000] 2 All ER 385, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 39.
  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Release on licence
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  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Release on licence — Mandatory life sentence prisoner — Tariff element of determinate length provisionally fixed but not communicated to prisoner — Whole life tariff subsequently fixed and communicated — Whether policy allowing imposition of whole life tariff lawful — Whether increase from determinate tariff to whole life tariff lawful — Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, s 1(1) — Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, s 29

  1 Case considered
• R v Lord Chancellor, Ex parte Witham (Witham, Ex parte)

  07 Mar 1997 [1998] QB 575; [1998] 2 WLR 849; [1997] 2 All ER 779, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 105.
  STATUTORY INSTRUMENT — Validity — Whether ultra vires
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  STATUTORY INSTRUMENT — Validity — Whether ultra vires — Lord Chancellor by Order repealing provisions giving poor litigants exemption from or reduction of Supreme Court fees — Applicant on income support unable to afford fees — Whether constitutional right of access to court — Whether removal of exemption from fees denial of access to court — Whether unlawful — Supreme Court Act 1981, s 130 — Supreme Court Fees (Amendment) Order 1996, art 3

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex parte Robinson (Robinson, Ex parte)

  11 Jul 1997 [1998] QB 929; [1997] 3 WLR 1162; [1997] 4 All ER 210, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 77.
  IMMIGRATION — Refusal of entry — Application for asylum
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  IMMIGRATION — Refusal of entry — Application for asylum — Dismissal of special appeal against refusal by special adjudicator on ground that safe haven available in home state — Whether jurisdiction to consider availability of internal flight alternative — Whether reasonable to expect applicant to relocate to safe area — Whether appellate tribunal required to consider points not raised in grounds of appeal — Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993, s 8(1) — Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) and (1967), art 1A(2)

  1 Statute considered

  1 International Agreement considered
• Barrett v Enfield London Borough Council

  25 Mar 1997 [1998] QB 367; [1997] 3 WLR 628; [1997] 3 All ER 171; [1997] 2 FLR 167; [1997] 3 FCR 145; (1997) 37 BMLR 16; (1998) 10 Admin LR 230; The Times, 22 April 1997, CA (Lord Woolf MR, Evans and Schiemann LJJ)

  17 Jun 1999 [2001] 2 AC 550; [1999] 3 WLR 79; [1999] 3 All ER 193; [1999] LGR 473; [1999] 2 FLR 426; (1999) 49 BMLR 1; (1999) 11 Admin LR 839; [1999] PIQR P272; The Times, 18 June 1999, HL(E) (Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Nolan, Lord Steyn and Lord Hutton)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 8 neutral. Subsequent citations: 165.
  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Local authority
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  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Local authority — Common law duty to protect and promote welfare of children in care — Alleged failure to carry out duty — Whether local authority liable in negligence

  4 Case(s) considered

• R v Thames Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, Ex parte Horgan (Horgan, Ex parte)

  25 Nov 1997 [1998] QB 719; [1998] 2 WLR 799; [1998] 1 All ER 559; [1998] 2 Cr App R 47, DC

  JUSTICES — Summary proceedings — Time limit
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  JUSTICES — Summary proceedings — Time limit — Indictable offence triable summarily — Failure to preserve accounting records — Statute creating time limit for offence triable by magistrates' court — Summary proceedings brought outside time limit — Whether statutory time limit applicable to offence triable either way — Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, s 127(1)(2) — Companies Act 1985, s 731(2)

  2 Statutes considered