Jennifer Wiss-Carline, LL.B, MA, PGCert Bus Admin, Solicitor, FCILEx
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Jennifer Wiss-Carline is an SRA-regulated Solicitor, Chartered Legal Executive and Commissioner for Oaths. She has taught law to Undergraduate LL.B students.
Areas of Expertise
law
Awards
Highly Commended at the 2018 CILEX National Awards for Legal Knowledge
The case concerns Lassana Diarra, a professional football player, and his dispute with FIFA regarding the transfer system and its compatibility with EU law. …
A Case Summary of Salomon v A Salomon and Co Ltd [1897] AC 22 (Salomon v Salomon) – Separate Legal Personality (SLP) is the basic tenet on which company law is premised. …
Liability under Rylands v Fletcher is regarded as a specific type of nuisance, a form of strict liability, where the defendant may be liable without having been negligent. …
Facts in Partridge v Crittenden. The defendant advertised for sale a number of Bramblefinch cocks and hens, stating that the price was to be 25 shillings for each. Under the Protection of Birds Act 1954, it was unlawful to offer for sale any wild live bird….
The defendant ran a self-service shop in which non-prescription drugs and medicines, many of which were listed in the Poisons List provided in the Pharmacy and Poisons Act 1933, were sold. …
Case Summary of Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd (1964) AC 465 (HL). Claiming Economic Loss and Experts. In 1963 the House of Lords established that in limited circumstances – if a duty of care arose in the making of statements – pure economic loss in tort could now be recoverable in English law….
Donoghue v Stevenson, a Scottish dispute, is a famous case in English law which was instrumental in shaping the law of tort and the doctrine of negligence in particular. …
The claimant, Hadley, owned a mill featuring a broken crankshaft. The claimant engaged Baxendale, the defendant, to transport the crankshaft to the location at which it would be repaired and then subsequently transport it back….
Emphasised the significance of offer and acceptance in contract law; distinguishes between offers and invitations to treat. The issue in Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co was whether the advert in question constituted an offer or an invitation to treat….
Case Summary of Caparo Industries plc v Dickman [1990] UKHL 2. The tripartite test in establishing duty of care. Caparo is the landmark case which has created the tripartite test in establishing duty of care….
