Results: 539

• Wooldridge v Sumner

  04 Jun 1962 [1963] 2 QB 43; [1962] 3 WLR 616; [1962] 2 All ER 978, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 3 neutral. Subsequent citations: 17.
  NEGLIGENCE — Sport — Competitor and spectator

  VOLENTI NON FIT INJURIA — Sport — Competitor and spectator
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  NEGLIGENCE — Sport — Competitor and spectator — Standard of care — Horse show — Heavyweight hunter competition — Galloping horse driven too fast round corner of arena — Deviation from arena into shrubs bordering arena — Attempt to bring horse back into arena — Injury to non-paying spectator standing at edge of arena — Whether competitor liable

  VOLENTI NON FIT INJURIA — Sport — Competitor and spectator — Horse show — Galloping horse driven too fast round corner of arena — Injury to non-paying spectator standing at edge of arena — Whether doctrine applicable

  10 Case(s) considered

• Littlewoods Mail Order Stores Ltd v Storey

  05 Jun 1962 [1962] 2 QB 286; [1962] 3 WLR 436; [1962] 2 All ER 865, DC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  EVIDENCE — Judicial notice — Object

  MERCHANDISE MARKS — Indication of origin — Imported goods assembled abroad
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  EVIDENCE — Judicial notice — Object — Article ordinarily made of iron or steel — Article examined by magistrate — Evidence of plating — No cross-examination about basic metal — No other oral evidence — Whether magistrate entitled to find as fact article made of iron or steel — Umbrella

  MERCHANDISE MARKS — Indication of origin — Imported goods assembled abroad — Umbrellas made in Hong Kong — Ribs and tubes made of iron or steel wire — Whether umbrellas “any goods” — Whether ribs and tubes must bear indication of origin — Merchandise Marks Act, 1926, s 5 (3) — Merchandise Marks (Imported Goods) Order, No 10, 1933

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Medlicott v Medlicott

  12 Jan 1962 [1962] 1 WLR 136; [1962] 1 All ER 449, CA

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Maintenance — Divorce
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Maintenance — Divorce — Variation — Unchastity of former wife — Consent order for maintenance — Increase in husband's means — Application by wife to vary consent order — Objection to variation based on wife's misconduct after termination of marriage — Untruths in wife's affidavit — Exercise of discretion to vary maintenance — Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950, s 28 (3)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Attorney-General v Crayford Urban District Council

  18 Oct 1961 [1962] Ch 246; [1961] 3 WLR 1198; [1961] 3 All ER 1002; [1961] 2 Lloyd's Rep 267; 59 LGR 574, Ch D (Pennycuick J)

  22 Feb 1962 [1962] Ch 575; [1962] 2 WLR 998; [1962] 2 All ER 147; [1962] 1 Lloyd's Rep 163; 60 LGR 261, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 14.
  HOUSING — Powers of management — Insurance

  INJUNCTION — Relator action — Attorney-General's discretion
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  HOUSING — Powers of management — Insurance — Collective insurance by local authority — Insurance of tenants' household and personal goods — Authority acting as agent — Premiums collected by officer of authority — Whether “management” — Whether scheme ultra vires — Housing Act, 1957, s 111 (1)

  INJUNCTION — Relator action — Attorney-General's discretion — Action for declaration — Lack of interest of relator — Council acting ultra vires — Whether injunction appropriate remedy

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Parke v Daily News Ltd

  03 Feb 1961 [1961] 1 WLR 493; [1961] 1 All ER 695, Ch D (Wilberforce J)

  06 Jun 1962 [1962] Ch 927; [1962] 3 WLR 566; [1962] 2 All ER 929, Ch D (Plowman J)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 14.
  COMPANY — Powers — Application of assets

  COMPANY — Powers — Ex gratia payment
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  COMPANY — Powers — Application of assets — Proposed payments to former employees — Whether payments gratuities — Test — Validity — Action by shareholder — Application for interim injunction — No evidence by directors that payments in interest of company's business — Whether prima facie case that proposed payments ultra vires

  COMPANY — Powers — Ex gratia payment — Sale of major part of business — Dismissal of majority of staff — Compensation for loss of service and pension rights — Staff not legally entitled — Payment ex gratia — Whether intra vires the company — Whether majority of shareholders entitled to ratify

  5 Case(s) considered

• Jasiewicz v Jasiewicz

  25 Oct 1962 [1962] 1 WLR 1426; [1962] 3 All ER 1017, PDA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  EVIDENCE — Foreign law — Colonial or Commonwealth law

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Marriage — Foreign marriage, validity
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  EVIDENCE — Foreign law — Colonial or Commonwealth law — Enactment — Method of proof — Whether statute still in force — Evidence (Colonial Statutes) Act, 1907

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Marriage — Foreign marriage, validity — Proof of foreign marriage — Colonial or Commonwealth Enactment — Evidence (Foreign, Dominion and Colonial Documents) Act, 1933 — Evidence (Colonial Statutes) Act, 1907 — Pakistan — Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872, ss 30, 80

  1 Case considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Overseas Enactment considered
• Windeatt v Windeatt (No 2)

  21 Feb 1962 [1963] P 25; [1962] 2 WLR 1056; [1962] 1 All ER 776, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive.
  FACT OR LAW — Husband and wife — Cruelty, intention to injure

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Cruelty — Intention to injure
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  FACT OR LAW — Husband and wife — Cruelty, intention to injure — Question of fact — Divorce

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Cruelty — Intention to injure — Fact, question of — Association with other woman — Whether cruelty

  5 Case(s) considered
• In re P (Infants)

  26 Jul 1962 [1962] 1 WLR 1296; [1962] 3 All ER 789; 60 LGR 532, Ch D

  24 Feb 1967 [1967] 1 WLR 818; [1967] 2 All ER 229; 65 LGR 572, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 11.
  ADOPTION — Consent of parent — Dispensing with

  INFANT — Ward of court — Jurisdiction
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  ADOPTION — Consent of parent — Dispensing with — “Obligations of a parent” — Mother's consent refused — Whether failure by mother to discharge obligations — Adoption Act, 1958, s 5 (2)

  INFANT — Ward of court — Jurisdiction — Custody order by magistrates — Jurisdiction of High Court to make orders inconsistent with magistrates' order — Guardianship of Infants Acts, 1886 and 1925

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  3 Statutes considered

• I & H Caplan Ltd v Caplan

  06 Dec 1961 [1962] 1 WLR 55; [1961] 3 All ER 1174, HL(E)

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Business premises (security of tenure) — Holding, extent of
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Business premises (security of tenure) — Holding, extent of — Date for determining — Claim for new tenancy — Landlord and Tenant Act, 1954, s 32 (1)

  2 Statutes considered

• In the Estate of Knibbs, decd

  25 May 1962 [1962] 1 WLR 852; [1962] 2 All ER 829, PDA

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  WILL — Seaman's will — Oral statement
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  WILL — Seaman's will — Oral statement — Statement whilst at sea — “If anything happens to me Iris will get anything I have got” — Whether testamentary act — Wills Act, 1837, s 11

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered