Results: 417

• Director of Public Prosecutions v Stonehouse

  30 Jun 1977 [1978] AC 55; [1977] 3 WLR 143; [1977] 2 All ER 909; 65 Cr App R 192, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 8 positive; 7 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 36.
  CRIME — Attempt — Obtaining property by deception
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  CRIME — Attempt — Obtaining property by deception — Life insurance in England — Appearance of death fabricated abroad — Moneys payable to wife of accused — Whether crime justiciable in England — Proper direction to jury — Theft Act, 1968, s 15

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• In re Lord Cable, decd (Garratt v Waters)

  14 Apr 1976 [1977] 1 WLR 7; [1976] 3 All ER 417, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 11.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Foreign exchange control

  PRACTICE — Parties — Joinder
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Foreign exchange control — Foreign trust moneys invested in England — Beneficiaries and majority of trustees resident outside foreign state — Foreign state ordering repatriation of moneys in compliance with exchange control legislation — Whether indirect enforcement of state's fiscal legislation — Whether English courts recognising foreign exchange control legislation — Whether trustees to be compelled to be parties to breach of proper law of trust

  PRACTICE — Parties — Joinder — Union of India seeking to be joined as defendant to protect its exchange control legislation — Whether joinder of foreign state proper — RSC, Ord 15, r 6 (2) (b)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Cookson v Knowles

  29 Jul 1977 [1977] QB 913; [1977] 3 WLR 279; [1977] 2 All ER 820; [1977] 2 Lloyd's Rep 412, CA

  24 May 1978 [1979] AC 556; [1978] 2 WLR 978; [1978] 2 All ER 604; [1978] 2 Lloyd's Rep 315, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 9 positive; 5 neutral; 4 negative. Subsequent citations: 62.
  FATAL ACCIDENTS ACTS — Damages — Assessment

  INTEREST — Award of damages — Personal injury cases
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  FATAL ACCIDENTS ACTS — Damages — Assessment — Pecuniary loss to widow and children — Division into two parts by date of trial — Interest at half rate to date of trial — No interest on sum for pain, suffering and loss of amenities

  INTEREST — Award of damages — Personal injury cases — Sum for pain, suffering and loss of amenities — Fatal accident claims — Interest on sum for pecuniary loss to date of trial

  9 Case(s) considered

• Practice Direction (Minors’ Funds: Investment)

  20 Jul 1977 [1977] 1 WLR 1064; [1977] 3 All ER 351, QBD

  MINOR — Money in court, investment of — Public Trustee
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  MINOR — Money in court, investment of — Public Trustee — District registrars' power to order funds to be held on trust out of court by Public Trustee — RSC, Ord 80, r 12

  1 Case considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R v Parker (Daryl)

  17 Jun 1976 [1977] 1 WLR 600; [1977] 2 All ER 37; 63 Cr App R 211, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 6.
  CRIME — Criminal damage to property — Recklessness
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  CRIME — Criminal damage to property — Recklessness — Persistence in deliberate act with risk of resulting damage — Telephone damaged by slamming down handset — Whether “reckless” — Criminal Damage Act 1971, s 1 (1)

  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Campden Hill Towers Ltd v Gardner

  24 Nov 1976 [1977] QB 823; [1977] 2 WLR 159; [1977] 1 All ER 739, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 7.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Repairs — Covenant, implied
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Repairs — Covenant, implied — Third floor flat in block of flats let on seven years' lease — External walls expressly excluded from demise — Service charge payable on account of repairs carried out by lessor — Statutory obligation on lessor to keep in repair structure and exterior of dwelling house and installations — Extent of obligation — Housing Act 1961, s 32 (1) (a) (b)

  1 Statute considered
• Government of Malaysia v Selangor Pilot Association

  11 Jan 1977 [1978] AC 337; [1977] 2 WLR 901, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 2.
  MALAYSIA — Constitution — Property
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  MALAYSIA — Constitution — Property — Deprivation of property — Right to compensation on compulsory acquisition or use of property — Law providing for all licensed pilots to be employed by port authority — Whether firm providing pilotage and employing licensed pilots deprived of property — Constitution of Malaysia, art 13 (1) (2) — Port Authorities Act 1963 (as amended by Port Authorities (Amendment) Act 1972), s 35A (1) (2)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

  1 Overseas Enactment considered
• R v Whitehouse

  18 Feb 1977 [1977] QB 868; [1977] 2 WLR 925; [1977] 3 All ER 737; 65 Cr App R 33, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 5.
  CRIME — Sexual offences — Incest
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  CRIME — Sexual offences — Incest — Daughter under 16 — Whether offence for father to incite her to commit incest — Whether offence to incite her to aid and abet him to have sexual intercourse with her consent — Sexual Offences Act 1956, ss 10 (1), 11 (1)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Gleeson v J Wippell & Co Ltd

  17 Jan 1977 [1977] 1 WLR 510; [1977] 3 All ER 54, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 3 neutral; most recently considered: 2015. Subsequent citations: 69.
  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Issue estoppel

  PRACTICE — Affidavits — Form
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  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Issue estoppel — Previous action by plaintiff against different defendant — Present defendants not made parties — Issue whether plaintiff's copyright infringed determined in previous action — Whether issue estoppel — Whether privity of interest between present defendants and defendants in previous action

  PRACTICE — Affidavits — Form — Method of preparation — Need for endorsement — Content — Inclusion of opinions of counsel and legal aid committee undesirable — RSC, Ord 41, rr 1 (5), 9 (5)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Harold Stephen & Co Ltd v Post Office

  18 Jul 1977 [1977] 1 WLR 1172; [1978] 1 All ER 939, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 6.
  INJUNCTION — Mandatory — Principles governing relief

  POST OFFICE — Statutory liability — Immunity from court proceedings
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  INJUNCTION — Mandatory — Principles governing relief — Industrial dispute at factory — Postal workers suspended for detaining mail — Closure of sorting office — Other companies affected — Whether mandatory injunction requiring Post Office to deliver up mail enforceable — Whether requiring Post Office to aid and abet statutory offence by workers

  POST OFFICE — Statutory liability — Immunity from court proceedings — Postal workers refusing to handle mail belonging to factory involved in industrial dispute — Action constituting statutory offence — Suspension of workers and closure of sorting office — Local companies affected by non-receipt of mail requiring Post Office to deliver it up — Whether action in detinue or bailment available — Whether mandatory injunction to be granted — Post Office Act 1953, s 58 (as amended) — Post Office Act 1969, ss 9 (4), 29

  1 Case considered

  2 Statutes considered