Results: 95

• Merrett v Babb

  15 Feb 2001 [2001] EWCA Civ 214; [2001] QB 1174; [2001] 3 WLR 1, CA

  22 Jun 2001 (pet dis) [2001] 1 WLR 1859, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 26.
  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Surveyor

  PRACTICE — Parties — Joinder
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  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Surveyor — Valuation of house for purpose of mortgage — Surveyor employed by firm of surveyors and valuers instructed by mortgage lender — Surveyor negligently valuing house — Purchaser suffering consequential loss — Whether surveyor owing duty of care to purchaser — Whether personally liable to purchaser

  PRACTICE — Parties — Joinder — Joinder of additional plaintiff — House purchased jointly — Action in negligence claiming entire loss brought by one purchaser — Limitation period expiring before trial — Whether addition of second purchaser “necessary for the determination of the original action” — Whether “claim already made … cannot be maintained” unless second purchaser joined — Limitation Act 1980, s 35(5)(b)(6)(b)

  6 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Attorney General v Punch Ltd

  23 Mar 2001 [2001] EWCA Civ 403; [2001] QB 1028; [2001] 2 WLR 1713; [2001] 2 All ER 655, CA

  23 Oct 2001 (pet all) [2002] UKHL 50; [2003] 1 AC 1046; [2001] 1 WLR 2111; [2003] 2 WLR 49; [2003] 1 All ER 289, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 49.
  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Pending proceedings — Third party
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  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Pending proceedings — Third party — Action to preserve confidential information — Interlocutory injunction prohibiting publication pending trial — Third party knowingly publishing information specified in injunction — Whether actus reus of contempt committed — Whether third party having necessary mens rea — Whether contempt of court

  5 Case(s) considered
• Sykes v Harry

  01 Feb 2001 [2001] EWCA Civ 167; [2001] QB 1014; [2001] 3 WLR 62, CA

  18 Jul 2002 (pet dis) [2002] 1 WLR 2286, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 3.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Repairs — Covenant
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Repairs — Covenant — Landlord under repairing obligation to tenant — Defect in gas fire causing personal injury to tenant — Landlord aware that gas fire had not been serviced and that dangerous defects could develop if not serviced — Landlord unaware of actual defect in gas fire — Whether in breach of statutory duty — Defective Premises Act 1972, s 4

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (Touche) v Inner London North Coroner

  21 Mar 2001 [2001] EWCA Civ 383; [2001] QB 1206; [2001] 3 WLR 148; [2001] 2 All ER 752, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 20.
  CORONER — Inquest — Duty to hold
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  CORONER — Inquest — Duty to hold — Death after giving birth resulting from hypertension following inadequate monitoring of blood pressure — Deceased cremated — Coroner contesting application for judicial review of refusal to hold inquest — Whether reasonable cause to suspect that death “unnatural” — Whether coroner having duty or jurisdiction to hold inquest — Whether coroner liable for costs of application — Coroners Act 1988, ss 8(1)(a), 15(1)(2)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Terry v East Sussex Coroner

  29 Nov 2000 [2001] QB 559; [2001] 2 WLR 710, DC

  12 Jul 2001 [2001] EWCA Civ 1094; [2002] QB 312; [2001] 3 WLR 605; [2002] 2 All ER 141, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 6.
  CORONER — Inquest — Duty to hold
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  CORONER — Inquest — Duty to hold — Coroner satisfied following post mortem that inquest unnecessary — Certificate issued stating death due to natural causes — Deceased's family subsequently claiming new evidence showing death due to unnatural causes — Whether coroner having power to order inquest — Whether functus officio — Coroners Act 1988, ss 13, 19

  1 Case considered

  2 Statutes considered

• R (Secretary of State for the Home Department) v Immigration Appeal Tribunal

  09 Apr 2001 [2001] EWHC Admin 261; [2001] QB 1224; [2001] 3 WLR 164; [2001] 4 All ER 430, QBD

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  IMMIGRATION — Immigration Appeal Tribunal — Appeal to
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  IMMIGRATION — Immigration Appeal Tribunal — Appeal to — Secretary of State refusing applicant's claim for asylum — Special adjudicator allowing applicant's appeal — Secretary of State appealing to Immigration Appeal Tribunal — Tribunal chairman sitting alone at preliminary hearing remitting matter to special adjudicator for rehearing — Differently constituted full tribunal rescinding chairman's decision — Whether chairman entitled to remit — Whether remittal final determination of appeal — Whether tribunal entitled to rescind previous interlocutory decision — Immigration Act 1971, ss 20, 22(2)(a) — Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993, s 9(1) — Immigration Appeals (Procedure) Rules 1984, rr 21, 38 — Asylum Appeals (Procedure) Rules 1996, rr 17(2), 44

  1 Case considered

  2 Statutes considered

  2 Statutory Instruments considered

• R v Spear (John) (R v Saunby (David), R v Boyd (David Morton), R v Hastie (Philip))

  15 Jan 2001 [2001] EWCA Crim 2; [2001] QB 804; [2001] 2 WLR 1692; [2001] Crim LR 485; The Times, 30 January 2001, Ct-MAC

  20 Jun 2001 (pet all) [2001] 1 WLR 1506, HL(E)

  18 Jul 2002 [2002] UKHL 31; [2003] 1 AC 734; [2002] 3 WLR 437; [2002] 3 All ER 1074; [2003] 1 Cr App R 1; The Times, 19 July 2002; The Independent, 24 July 2002, HL(E) (Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Steyn, Lord Hutton, Lord Scott of Foscote and Lord Rodger of Earlsferry)

  Subsequent citations: 17.
  MILITARY LAW — Court-martial — Jurisdiction
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  MILITARY LAW — Court-martial — Jurisdiction — Trial in United Kingdom of offence against ordinary criminal law — Permanent president of courts-martial sitting in district court-martial — Whether courts-martial lacking independence or impartiality — Whether breach of Convention rights — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 6(1)

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• R v Hayward (R v Purvis)

  31 Jan 2001 [2001] EWCA Crim 168; [2001] QB 862; [2001] 3 WLR 125; [2001] 2 Cr App R 156, CA

  27 Jun 2001 (pet all) [2001] 1 WLR 1518, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 38.
  CRIME — Practice — Trial
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  CRIME — Practice — Trial — Defendant absconding before trial — Whether appropriate to proceed with trial where defendant absent and unrepresented — Exercise of judge's discretion

  2 Case(s) considered
• Kent v Griffiths

  [1999] Lloyd's Rep Med 424

  03 Feb 2000 [2001] QB 36; [2000] 2 WLR 1158; [2000] 2 All ER 474, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 36.
  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Ambulance service
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  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Ambulance service — Claimant suffering asthma attack — Doctor telephoning 999 and ambulance service agreeing to send ambulance immediately — Ambulance failing to arrive within reasonable time — No satisfactory explanation for delay — Claimant suffering respiratory arrest due to delay — Whether ambulance service liable in negligence

  7 Case(s) considered
• Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG v Five Star Trading LLC (The Mount I) (ICL Vikraman, The, Mount I, The)

  26 May 2000 [2000] 1 All ER (Comm) 897; [2000] 2 Lloyd's Rep 684; [2000] CLC 1359; The Times, 21 June 2000, QBD (Longmore J)

  26 Jan 2001 [2001] EWCA Civ 68; [2001] QB 825; [2001] 2 WLR 1344; [2001] 3 All ER 257; [2001] 1 All ER (Comm) 961; [2001] 1 Lloyd's Rep 597; [2001] Lloyd's Rep IR 460; [2001] CLC 843; The Times, 21 February 2001, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 36.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Contract — Proper law

  INSURANCE — Marine — Assignment
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Contract — Proper law — Vessel insured with French insurers — Policy governed by English law — Owners assigning insurance to bank — Notice of assignment not given in accordance with French law — Vessel in collision with cargo carrying vessel — Cargo owners obtaining attachments in France of insurance and proceeds — Whether rights under assignment contractual or proprietary — Whether assignment governed by English law — Whether bank entitled to invoke assignment — Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990, Sch 1, art 12

  INSURANCE — Marine — Assignment — Shipowners assigning benefit of future claim under insurance policies to mortgagee by deed — Whether taking effect as legal or equitable assignment — Marine Insurance Act 1906, s 50 — Law of Property Act 1925, s 136(1)

  1 Case considered

  3 Statutes considered