Results: 608

• Littler v G L Moore (Contractors) Ltd

  09 May 1967 [1967] 1 WLR 1241; [1967] 3 All ER 801; 3 KIR 64, Assizes

  Subsequent considerations : 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 1.
  BUILDING — Safety regulations — Eyes

  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Future uncertainties
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  BUILDING — Safety regulations — Eyes — Cutting glazed earthenware drainpipe with hammer and chisel — Whether “… cutting … stone, concrete, slag or similar materials by means of a hand tool (other than a trowel)” — Whether “process” — Protection of eyes of person engaged in process — Goggles unprovided — Eye injury caused by particle of metal from tool — Whether necessity to provide protection against particle flying from tool — Construction (General Provisions) Regulations, 1961, reg 52, Sch, para (2)

  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Future uncertainties — Eye — Contingency of cataract — Whether damages awardable to cover contingency of possible eye deterioration

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Papworth v Coventry

  16 Feb 1967 [1967] 1 WLR 663; [1967] 2 All ER 41, DC

  METROPOLIS — Police — Powers of Commissioner
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  METROPOLIS — Police — Powers of Commissioner — Directions for dispersing assemblies or processions in neighbourhood of Parliament — Police to prevent or remove any cause of obstruction to afford free passage of members to Parliament — Whether intra vires — Seven stationary pickets bearing posters — Whether assembly — Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, s 52

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute 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

• Northrop v Northrop

  28 Oct 1966 [1968] P 74; [1966] 3 WLR 1193; [1966] 3 All ER 797, DC

  11 May 1967 [1968] P 74; [1967] 3 WLR 907; [1967] 2 All ER 961, CA

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Child, maintenance for

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Wilful neglect to maintain child only
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Child, maintenance for — Wilful neglect to maintain wife and child — Consensual separation — £2 per week paid for child — No express agreement to maintain wife — £2 inadequate for child if no maintenance for wife — Child dependent upon wife — Failure to maintain child throwing obligation onto wife — Wife's earning capacity thereby impaired — Whether necessary implication that husband agrees to support wife — Principles to be applied in assessing quantum of maintenance

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Wilful neglect to maintain child only — Jurisdiction to award maintenance for wife — Jurisdiction to make matrimonial orders — Quantum of maintenance for wife that which is reasonable in all the circumstances — Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates Courts) Act, 1960, ss 1 (1), 2 (1)

  9 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Davies v Davies Jenkins & Co Ltd

  21 Dec 1965 [1966] 1 WLR 446; [1966] 1 All ER 716, Ch D

  06 May 1966 [1966] 1 WLR 1094; [1966] 2 All ER 930, CA

  15 Mar 1967 [1968] AC 1097; [1967] 2 WLR 1139; [1967] 1 All ER 913; 44 TC 273, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 4.
  REVENUE — Income tax — Discontinuance of trade

  STATUTE — Construction — Subsequent enactments
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  REVENUE — Income tax — Discontinuance of trade — Company subvention agreement between associated companies — Associated company ceasing to trade — Subsequent payments received under agreement — Whether subvention payment relief available — “Receives” — Finance Act, 1953, s 20 (1) (9) (10)

  STATUTE — Construction — Subsequent enactments — Whether relevant in interpreting earlier one — Acts forming statutory code — Where no ambiguity not permissible to have regard to subsequent enactment as aid to construction — Finance Act, 1953, s 20 — Finance Act, 1954, s 18

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  3 Statutes considered
• In re E (D) (An Infant)

  02 Dec 1966 [1967] Ch 287; [1967] 2 WLR 445; [1967] 1 All ER 329, Ch D

  03 Mar 1967 [1967] Ch 761; [1967] 2 WLR 1370; [1967] 2 All ER 881, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 7.
  INFANT — Ward of court — Jurisdiction
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  INFANT — Ward of court — Jurisdiction — Forum conveniens — Kidnapping case — Infant removed by grandfather contrary to order of American court from that court's jurisdiction and placed with aunt in England — Aunt granted custody and control — Infant happily settled with aunt — Whether English court to decide on merits of case or order return of infant to American jurisdiction — Whether special reasons why infant should remain here

  2 Case(s) considered
• Mackender v Feldia AG

  18 Oct 1966 [1967] 2 QB 590; [1967] 2 WLR 119; [1966] 3 All ER 847, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 42.
  INSURANCE — Non-disclosure — Effect

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Conflict of laws

  PRACTICE — Writ — Service out of jurisdiction
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  INSURANCE — Non-disclosure — Effect — Alleged failure to disclose practice of smuggling in foreign country — Policy with foreign jurisdiction clause — Whether contract void ab initio — Whether clause binding

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Conflict of laws — Jurisdiction of English courts over contracts subject to foreign jurisdiction by agreement

  PRACTICE — Writ — Service out of jurisdiction — Contract — Contract made within jurisdiction — Insurance policy with foreign jurisdiction clause — Proceedings on policy in Belgium — Writ claiming policy void issued in England — Whether leave should be granted to serve writ outside jurisdiction — RSC (Rev 1965), Ord 11, r 1 (f)

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Greenwood v Whelan

  25 Nov 1966 [1967] 1 QB 396; [1967] 2 WLR 289; [1967] 1 All ER 294; 65 LGR 58, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 1.
  PHARMACY — Shop — Market stall

  SHOP — Definition — Market stall
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  PHARMACY — Shop — Market stall — Whether a “shop” — Pharmacy and Medicines Act, 1941, s 17 (1)

  SHOP — Definition — Market stall — Permanent stall — Tubular steel construction always in same place within area of town market — Daily carrying on of retail trade or business — Whether “premises where … retail trade or business … carried on” — Whether “shop” — Shops Act, 1912, s 19 (1) — Pharmacy and Medicines Act, 1941, s 17 (1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Barclays Bank Ltd v Cole

  24 Oct 1966 [1967] 2 QB 738; [1967] 2 WLR 166; [1966] 3 All ER 948, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 11.
  FRAUD — Meaning — Deceit

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Evidence, rules of

  PRACTICE — Jury, civil action — Right to jury
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  FRAUD — Meaning — Deceit — Whether charge of robbery “charge of fraud” — Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1933, s 6 (1) (a)

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Evidence, rules of — Conviction not evidence of guilt — Need for reconsideration

  PRACTICE — Jury, civil action — Right to jury — Charge of robbery — Whether “charge of fraud” — Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1933, s 6 (1) (a)

  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• B v Attorney-General (N E B Intervening)

  18 Nov 1965 [1967] 1 WLR 776; [1966] 2 All ER 145, PDA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  LEGITIMACY — Paternity — Paternity issue
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  LEGITIMACY — Paternity — Paternity issue — Costs — Answer by interveners — Cross-prayer for declaration petitioner not legitimate child of first intervener, in — Whether good — Petitioner, if legitimate, entitled to share in trust fund — Petitioner not legitimate — Jurisdiction to order petitioner's costs out of trust fund

  1 Case considered