Results: 498

• Modern Engineering (Bristol) Ltd v Gilbert-Ash (Northern) Ltd (Gilbert-Ash (Northern) Ltd v Modern Engineering (Bristol) Ltd)

  (1973) 71 LGR 162; [1973] 71 LGR 162, CA

  25 Jul 1973 [1974] AC 689; [1973] 3 WLR 421; [1973] 3 All ER 195; 72 LGR 1, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 12 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 117.
  BUILDING — Contract — RIBA form
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  BUILDING — Contract — RIBA form — Local authorities edition — Main contractors with own sub-contract form for nominated sub-contractors — Sub-contract form incorporating to limited extent main contract in RIBA form — Clause in sub-contract entitling contractors to withhold “amount of any bona fide contra account” — Whether contractors entitled to withhold sums certified as payable and due to sub-contractors pending determination of unliquidated cross claims

  3 Case(s) considered
• Cunningham v Harrison

  17 May 1973 [1973] QB 942; [1973] 3 WLR 97; [1973] 3 All ER 463, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 29.
  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Nursing expenses and accommodation
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  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Nursing expenses and accommodation — Effect of aid from statutory and voluntary organisations — Whether cost of specially designed bungalow recoverable — Whether damages to be reduced for employers' ex gratia payments — Relevance of effect of inflation

  4 Case(s) considered
• Williams v Beesley

  25 Jul 1973 [1973] 1 WLR 1295; [1973] 3 All ER 144, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 4.
  PRACTICE — Jury, civil action — Right to jury
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  PRACTICE — Jury, civil action — Right to jury — Professional negligence — Issues of honour, integrity and credibility — To what extent relevant — Plaintiff's wish for jury trial — Plaintiff's fear of possible bias by judiciary — Whether court to take such matters into account — Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1933, s 6 (1)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• Chelmsford Auctions Ltd v Poole

  19 Dec 1972 [1973] QB 542; [1973] 2 WLR 219; [1973] 1 All ER 810, CA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  AGENCY — Auctioneer — Right to sue
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  AGENCY — Auctioneer — Right to sue — Car sold at auction subject to printed conditions of sale — Purchaser paying auctioneers sufficient to cover commission — Refusal to pay balance of purchase price — Car retained by auctioneers after paying whole price to vendor — Action by auctioneers in own name against purchaser for balance of price — Whether auctioneers' lien over goods in possession continuing after receipt of sum covering their commission and charges

  5 Case(s) considered

• Magdalen College, Oxford v Heritage

  20 Jul 1973 [1973] 1 WLR 1225; [1973] 3 All ER 891, QBD

  14 Jan 1974 [1974] 1 WLR 441; [1974] 1 All ER 1065, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  AGRICULTURAL HOLDING — Notice to quit — Validity
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  AGRICULTURAL HOLDING — Notice to quit — Validity — Notice to pay rent omitting period within which rent payable — Notice to quit given by “reason” of failure to pay rent — Whether notice to quit affected by invalidity of notice to pay rent — Whether jurisdiction to hear dispute as to validity of notice to quit — Agricultural Holdings Act 1948, s 24 (2) (d) — Agriculture (Notices to Remedy and Notices to Quit) Order 1964, art 9

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R v Bogacki

  19 Mar 1973 [1973] QB 832; [1973] 2 WLR 937; [1973] 2 All ER 864; [1973] RTR 384; 57 Cr App R 593, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 2.
  CRIME — Theft — Taking conveyance without authority
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  CRIME — Theft — Taking conveyance without authority — Unauthorised possession of conveyance — No movement — Whether complete offence committed — Theft Act 1968, s 12 (1)

  1 Statute considered

• St Edmundsbury and District Diocesan Board of Finance v Clark

  16 Apr 1973 [1973] Ch 323; [1973] 2 WLR 1042; [1973] 2 All ER 1155, Ch D

  EVIDENCE — Witness — Examination outside London
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  EVIDENCE — Witness — Examination outside London — Witness aged and unfit — Action concerning extent of rights of way over land — Court's jurisdiction to adjourn to place outside London to examine witness — RSC, Ord 35, r 3

  1 Case considered

  2 Statutory Instruments considered
• Davies v Taylor (No 2)

  21 Mar 1973 [1974] AC 225; [1973] 2 WLR 610; [1973] 1 All ER 959, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 15.
  LEGAL AID — Costs — Successful unassisted party
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  LEGAL AID — Costs — Successful unassisted party — Unassisted respondent insured against any costs payable — Neither party legally aided at trial — Appellant legally aided in respect of unsuccessful appeals to Court of Appeal and House of Lords — Whether “costs incurred” by respondent — Whether “just and equitable” for costs to be paid out of legal aid fund — Legal Aid Act 1964, s 1

  4 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• In re M (An Infant) (Adoption: Child’s Removal from Jurisdiction)

  12 Jan 1973 [1973] Fam 66; [1973] 2 WLR 515; [1973] 1 All ER 852, Fam D

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  ADOPTION — Jurisdiction of court — Applicants resident abroad
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  ADOPTION — Jurisdiction of court — Applicants resident abroad — Provisional adoption order — Child to be in continuous care of applicants before provisional order made — Child made ward of court — Whether jurisdiction to allow child to be taken outside British Islands — Adoption Act 1958, ss 52 (1), 53

  1 Statute considered
• Murray v Two Strokes Ltd

  03 Apr 1973 [1973] 1 WLR 823; [1973] 3 All ER 357, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 4.
  LAND REGISTRATION — Option to purchase — Registration of caution
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  LAND REGISTRATION — Option to purchase — Registration of caution — Freeholder granting defendants option to purchase land — Caution registered against freehold title — Freeholder granting lease for 99 years — Defendants' objection to registration of lease — Whether option “interest in land” — Whether option “minor interest” — Land Registration Act 1925, ss 3 (xv), 10

  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered