Results: 448

• R v Johnson

  [2001] 1 Cr App R 408, CA

  03 Apr 2009 [2009] EWCA Crim 649; [2009] 2 Cr App R 101, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 10.
  CRIME — Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) — Reference by Criminal Cases Review Commission

  CRIME — Evidence — Character
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  CRIME — Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) — Reference by Criminal Cases Review Commission — Defendant convicted of robbery with aggravation in 1968 — Conviction referred to Court of Appeal by Criminal Cases Review Commission — Approach to be adopted by court — Prosecution case resting on single identification — Jury not warned to treat evidence with caution — Safety of conviction — Whether court to apply current standards

  CRIME — Evidence — Character — Defendant's bad character — Defendants charged with conspiracy to burgle — Crown seeking to adduce evidence of previous convictions for burglary and attempted theft to establish propensity — Previous convictions not of same description or category as offence charged — Whether possible to establish propensity by other means — Whether convictions properly admitted — Criminal Justice Act 2003, ss 101(1)(d), 103(2)
• R v Secretary of State for Transport, Ex p Factortame Ltd (No 2)

  [1989] 2 CMLR 353, CA

  19 Jun 1990 (Case C-213/89); EU:C:1990:257; EU:C:1990:257; [1991] 1 AC 603; [1990] 3 WLR 818; [1991] 1 All ER 70; [1990] 2 Lloyd's Rep 351; The Times, 20 June 1990, ECJ

  11 Oct 1990 [1991] 1 AC 603; [1990] 3 WLR 818; [1991] 1 All ER 70, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 3 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 147.
  EUROPEAN COMMUNITY — Fishing rights — Common fisheries policy

  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Crown — Interim injunctive relief
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  EUROPEAN COMMUNITY — Fishing rights — Common fisheries policy — British-registered fishing vessels managed and controlled from Spain — Act and Regulations of 1988 restricting registration as British — Owners' application for judicial review — Contention that Act and Regulations contravening Community law and depriving owners of enforceable Community rights — Interim injunction against Secretary of State restraining enforcement of Act and Regulations — Whether to be granted — European Communities Act 1972, s 2(1)(4) — Merchant Shipping Act 1988, s 14 — EEC Treaty, arts 7, 52, 58, 221

  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Crown — Interim injunctive relief — Application for interim injunction restraining Secretary of State from enforcing provisions of statute and Regulations made thereunder — Applicants' contention that Act and Regulations in conflict with laws of European Community and depriving applicants of enforceable Community rights — Principles on which interlocutory relief to be granted

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Leicester Wholesale Fruit Market Ltd v Grundy

  29 Apr 1988 [1990] 1 WLR 107; [1990] 1 All ER 442, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 5.
  PRACTICE — Parties — Joinder
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  PRACTICE — Parties — Joinder — Joinder of defendant — Action in relation to building contract — Joinder of main contractors as defendants — Main contractors applying to strike out action as being statute-barred — Test to be applied by court in striking out pleadings — RSC, Ord 15, r 6(2)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Attorney-General v Jones

  11 Apr 1990 [1990] 1 WLR 859; [1990] 2 All ER 636, CA

  11 Jul 1990 (pet dis) [1990] 1 WLR 1089, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 29.
  PRACTICE — Vexatious litigant — “Civil proceedings”

  PRACTICE — Vexatious litigant — “Proceedings instituted”
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  PRACTICE — Vexatious litigant — “Civil proceedings” — Whether “proceedings, in the High Court or any inferior court” including appeals from such courts — Supreme Court Act 1981, s 42(1)(b) (as amended by Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, s 24(2))

  PRACTICE — Vexatious litigant — “Proceedings instituted” — Assertion of counterclaim by way of defence — Whether “proceedings instituted” by counterclaim — Supreme Court Act 1981, s 42(1)(b) (as amended by Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, s 24(2)) — RSC, Ord 15, r 2

  3 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• R v Bradford City Metropolitan Council, Ex parte Wilson (Note)

  [1989] 3 All ER 140, DC

  21 Dec 1988 [1990] 2 QB 375; [1990] 2 WLR 255; [1989] 3 All ER 140, DC

  Subsequent citations: 7.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Meeting of local authority — Voting
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Meeting of local authority — Voting — Chairman — Lord Mayor chairing council meeting using casting vote in favour of resolutions — Resolutions affecting policy — Whether chairman obliged to exercise vote impartially — Local Government Act 1972, Sch 12, para 39(2)
• Sutcliffe v Pressdram Ltd

  06 Nov 1989 [1991] 1 QB 153; [1990] 2 WLR 271; [1991] 2 WLR 271; [1990] 1 All ER 269, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 24.
  LIBEL AND SLANDER — Damages for libel — Assessment by jury

  DEFAMATION — Damages for libel — Assessment by jury
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  LIBEL AND SLANDER — Damages for libel — Assessment by jury — Jury's award of £ 600,000 — Whether jury appreciating real value of award — Whether damages excessive

  DEFAMATION — Damages for libel — Assessment by jury — Jury's award of £600,000 — Whether jury appreciating real value of award — Whether damages excessive

  5 Case(s) considered
• Practice Note (Mode of Trial: Guidelines)

  26 Oct 1990 [1990] 1 WLR 1439; [1990] 3 All ER 979, DC

  26 Oct 1990 [1990] 1 WLR 1439; [1990] 3 All ER 979; 92 Cr App R 142, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 1.
  CRIME — Practice — Mode of trial
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  CRIME — Practice — Mode of trial — Offences triable either way — Guidance to magistrates' courts on selecting mode of trial

• R v Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ex parte Jaderow Ltd (Jaderow, Ex parte)

  14 Dec 1989 (Case C-216/87); [1990] 2 QB 193; [1990] 3 WLR 265; [1991] 1 All ER 41; EU:C:1989:651, ECJ

  Subsequent citations: 8.
  EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY — Fishing rights — Common fisheries policy
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  EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY — Fishing rights — Common fisheries policy — British registered fishing vessel owned by company controlled by Spanish interests — Licence to fish against British fishing quotas subject to condition relating to operation of vessel — Compatibility of condition with Community law

• Crown Estate Comrs v Dorset County Council

  06 Oct 1989 [1990] Ch 297; [1990] 2 WLR 89; [1990] 1 All ER 19; 88 LGR 132, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 10.
  COMMONS — Registration — Issue estoppel

  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Issue estoppel
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  COMMONS — Registration — Issue estoppel — Decision of commons commissioner that road verges part of highway and not “common land” and not registrable — Whether plaintiffs estopped from asserting in later proceedings not concerned with such registration that road verges not part of highway — Commons Registration Act 1965, s 6

  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Issue estoppel — Chief Commons Commissioner's decision that roadway verges part of highway — Refusal of plaintiffs' application to register verges as common land — Plaintiffs' claim in subsequent proceedings that verges not part of highway — Whether Chief Commons Commissioner's decision giving rise to issue estoppel

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered
• R v Richmond Upon Thames London Borough Council, Ex parte McCarthy & Stone (Developments) Ltd (McCarthy & Stone (Developments) Ltd v Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council)

  28 Feb 1990 [1992] 2 AC 48; [1990] 2 WLR 1294; [1990] 2 All ER 852; The Times, 2 March 1990, CA

  14 Nov 1991 [1992] 2 AC 48; [1991] 3 WLR 941; [1991] 4 All ER 897; [1992] 1 PLR 131; (1992) 63 P & CR 234; (1992) 4 Admin LR 223; [1992] JPL 467; (1991) 141 NLJ 1589; The Times, 15 November 1991; The Independent, 15 November 1991, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 50.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Powers — Charging for services
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Powers — Charging for services — Charge imposed for pre-planning application consultations with council's officers — Whether ultra vires — Local Government Act 1972, s 111(1)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered