Results: 51

• Winkworth v Christie Manson and Woods Ltd

  05 Nov 1979 [1980] Ch 496; [1980] 2 WLR 937; [1980] 1 All ER 1121, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 8.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Movables
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Movables — Assignment — Sale in Italy of goods stolen in England — Buyer bringing goods into England — Ownership — Law applicable

  1 Case considered
• Pritchard v Briggs

  24 Jun 1977 [1980] Ch 338; [1978] 2 WLR 317; [1978] 1 All ER 886, Ch D (Walton J)

  11 Apr 1979 [1980] Ch 338; [1979] 3 WLR 868; [1980] 1 All ER 294, CA (Stephenson, Goff and Templeman L.JJ.)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 32.
  LAND CHARGE — Charges registrable — Right of pre-emption
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  LAND CHARGE — Charges registrable — Right of pre-emption — Conveyance of land with right of first refusal to purchase retained lands during lives of parties to conveyance — Right of pre-emption registered — Subsequent lease of retained lands with option to purchase after grantors' deaths — Option registered — Conveyance in purported exercise of right of pre-emption — Subsequent purported exercise of option — Whether right of pre-emption creating interest in land — Whether right of pre-emption taking precedence over option to purchase

  11 Case(s) considered
• In re Coventry, decd (Coventry v Coventry)

  09 Nov 1978 [1980] Ch 461; [1979] 2 WLR 853; [1979] 2 All ER 408, Ch D

  18 Jul 1979 [1980] Ch 461; [1979] 3 WLR 802; [1979] 3 All ER 815, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 5 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 34.
  FAMILY PROVISION — Son — “Reasonable financial provision”
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  FAMILY PROVISION — Son — “Reasonable financial provision” — Son sharing accommodation with father — Father dying intestate — Son in good health and earning — Deceased's wife, estranged from husband and son, living on pension and supplementary benefit — Whether disposition of estate failed to make reasonable financial provision for son — Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, ss 1 (1) (2) (b), 2(1), 3

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• In re Racal Communications Ltd (In re a Company (No 00996 of 1979), In re A)

  31 Jul 1979 [1980] Ch 138; [1980] 2 WLR 241; [1980] 1 All ER 284, CA

  03 Jul 1980 [1981] AC 374; [1980] 3 WLR 181; [1980] 2 All ER 634, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 76.
  COMPANY — Officer — “Manager” or “officer”

  COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) — Jurisdiction — Judge's decision “not … appealable”
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  COMPANY — Officer — “Manager” or “officer” — Allegation of false accounting by departmental manager — Jurisdiction to order production and inspection of books — Companies Act 1948, s 441(1)(3)

  COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) — Jurisdiction — Judge's decision “not … appealable” — Error of law in construction of statute — Whether jurisdiction to hear appeal — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925, ss 27(1), 33(1)(d) — Companies Act 1948, s 441(3)

  5 Case(s) considered

  6 Words & Phrases considered

  3 Statutes considered
• In re Beaumont, decd (Martin v Midland Bank Trust Co Ltd)

  25 May 1979 [1980] Ch 444; [1979] 3 WLR 818, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 9.
  FAMILY PROVISION — Dependant — Maintained by deceased

  PRACTICE — Chancery Division — Summonses
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  FAMILY PROVISION — Dependant — Maintained by deceased — Couple living as man and wife — Home owned by woman — Man paying for accommodation and contributing to household budget — Whether assumption of responsibility by woman for man's maintenance — Arrangements “immediately” before death — Whether “substantial contribution” towards maintenance “otherwise than for full valuable consideration” — Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, ss 1 (1) (e) (3), 3 (4)

  PRACTICE — Chancery Division — Summonses — Adjournment to judge — Whether summonses to be heard first — Considerations where difficult point of law raised — RSC, Ord 32, r 14 (1)

  1 Case considered

  3 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Infabrics Ltd v Jaytex Ltd

  11 Feb 1980 [1980] Ch 282; [1980] 2 WLR 822; [1980] 2 All ER 669, CA

  26 Mar 1981 [1982] AC 1; [1981] 2 WLR 646; [1981] 1 All ER 1057, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  COPYRIGHT — Infringement — Artistic work
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  COPYRIGHT — Infringement — Artistic work — Design — Fabric design selected in Hong Kong — Shirts bearing design made in Hong Kong and imported into UK — Sale to public — No inquiry as to copyright — No prior knowledge — Whether “publication” — Whether infringement of copyright — Damages — Copyright Act 1956, ss 1 (1), 3 (5) (b), 18 (1), 49 (2) (c)

  COPYRIGHT — Infringement — Artistic work — Design — Fabric design selected in Hong Kong — Shirts bearing design made in Hong Kong and imported into UK — Sale to public — No inquiry as to copyright — No prior knowledge — Whether publication by “publishing” — Whether infringement of copyright — Whether damages for conversion available — Measure of damages — Copyright Act 1956, ss 1(1), 3(5)(b), 18(1), 49(2)(c)

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Nickerson v Barraclough

  19 Mar 1979 [1980] Ch 325; [1979] 3 WLR 562; [1979] 3 All ER 312, Ch D (Sir Robert Megarry V-C)

  15 Dec 1980 [1981] Ch 426; [1981] 2 WLR 773; [1981] 2 All ER 369, CA (Buckley, Eveleigh and Brightman L.JJ.)

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  EASEMENT — Right of way — Way of necessity
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  EASEMENT — Right of way — Way of necessity — Landlocked building plot — No right of way over proposed new roads until built — Whether way of necessity to be implied from grant — Public policy against land being made unusable — Right of way to plot — Whether means of access to plot beyond — Express or implied intention of parties — Law of Property Act 1925, s 62(1)

  8 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Allen v Greenwood

  16 Oct 1978 [1980] Ch 119; [1979] 2 WLR 187; [1979] 1 All ER 819, CA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  EASEMENT — Prescription — Right to light
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  EASEMENT — Prescription — Right to light — Greenhouse — Claim for sufficient light to cultivate plants — Whether specially high amount of light — Whether right to extraordinary amount of light capable of being acquired by prescription — Whether right to light for illumination only or capable of including sun's warmth — Prescription Act 1832, s 3

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• In re Clayton’s Deed Poll (Williams Deacon’s Bank Ltd v Kennedy)

  22 Jan 1979 [1980] Ch 99; [1979] 3 WLR 351; [1979] 2 All ER 1133, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 5.
  CHARITY — Education — School site
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  CHARITY — Education — School site — Land conveyed for school for poor of parish — Closure of school — Reverter of land under statute — Whether property reverting to original grantor — Whether legal estate vesting in grantee's successors in title — Schools Sites Act 1841, s 2

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Bartlett v Barclays Bank Trust Co Ltd (No 2)

  15 Jan 1980 [1980] Ch 515; [1980] 2 WLR 430; [1980] 1 All ER 139, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 3 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 52.
  TRUSTS — Breach of trust — Compensation
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  TRUSTS — Breach of trust — Compensation — Settlement — Beneficiaries' shareholdings in private company vesting absolutely — Subsequent sale of company as whole — Date when compensation to be calculated — Whether assumed liability for taxation in absence of breach of trust to be deducted from compensation — Rate of interest payable on compensation — Whether payable on disbursements — Whether costs taxable on party and party or common fund basis

  3 Case(s) considered