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Bolton v Stone 1951
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
In this case, the likelihood of the harm was very low, and erecting a fence any higher than the defendant had already done would be impractical. The cricket club was also providing a social useful service to the community….
Cooke v MGN Ltd
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendants published an article which suggested that various landlords made significant profit from renting poor quality……
Chwee Kin Keong v Digilandmall Pte Ltd
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant, Digilandmall.com Pte Ltd, were an online IT company that sold related software and hardware from Singapore. They were selling a HP laser printer and an employee accidently made a mistake as to the price of the printer on their website….
Bernstein v Skyviews – 1978
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Trespass – No right of privacy in airspace. Skyviews and General Ltd (S) took an aerial photograph a number of houses, including Coppings Farm, Bernstein’s (B) country home. …
Cullinane v British Rema Manufacturing
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Cullinane purchased a clay pulverising machine from British ‘Rema’ Manufacturing Co Ltd (BRMCO). BRMCO warranted the machine processed six tonnes……
Beswick v Beswick – 1968
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The court granted the widow an order of specific performance for the payment owed by PB’s nephew as an administrator to her husband’s estate. The court held that the damages would also not be limited due to the loss that had been caused to PB’s estate….
B & S v Leathley – 1979
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendants, B and S, entered a freezer container that had been placed in a farmyard and stole goods from it. The container was resting on sleepers, weighed three tons and was twenty-five foot long by seven by seven feet….
Chen v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Chen V. Secretary of State for the Home Department (2005) QB 325 case summary…
Compagnie Noga v Abacha
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The claimant Swiss company entered into a tripartite agreement with the defendant (the personal representative of the deceased former military……
Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
A child was brought to a hospital suffering from breathing abnormalities. The doctor summoned to deal with the matter never received the summons due to a low battery on her bleep….
Clark Fixing Ltd v Dudley
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (Dudley MBC), appealed a decision that it was liable in negligence for damage caused by fire……
Bunge Corporation v Tradax Export
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
A party contracted to purchase 15,000 tons of US soya bean meal, to be shipped in three shipments. Under the standard form of contract……
Brogden v Metropolitan Rly Co
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The complainants, Brogden, were suppliers of coal to the defendant, Metropolitan Railway. They completed business dealings regarding the coal frequently for a number of years, on an informal basis….
Canada Steamship Lines v The King
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Canada Steamship Lines entered into a Crown lease in 1940. The Duration of the lease was for 12 years and the lease pertained to dock property on St Gabriel Basin on the Lachine Canal. All of this was situated in the Port of Montreal….
Cole v Turner
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The relevance of the mental element in the tort of Battery. The case concerned an action brought before the court for trespass and battery. The Claimants were a husband and wife, both of who had allegedly suffered battery by the Defendant….
BP Exploration Co v Hunt – Summary
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
BP entered an agreement with Hunt, under which BP would explore and develop his oil concession in Libya at their own expense. This expenditure……
Cassell v Riverside Health Authority
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The claimant had been injured at birth due to the negligence of the defendant health authority, which had been responsible……
Clarke v Dickson – Summary
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The plaintiff claimed that he had been induced to invest in shares in a lead and copper mining company by the three defendants, who were directors of the……
Automatism Cases | Law Teacher
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Automatism Cases. The defendant had driven eratically while suffering from hypo-glycaemia (low blood sugar level caused by an excess of insulin in the bloodstream), but was convicted of driving without due care and……
Crossley v Rawlinson – Case Summary
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant, a lorry driver, stopped his vehicle when the tarpaulin covering his load caught fire. The fire was accepted to be a consequence of the……
Barrett v Ministry of Defence
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The plaintiff was the widow of the deceased, who was a British naval army serviceman. He died of asphyxiation on his own vomit after……
HIV man is found guilty of deliberately infecting lovers | Law Teacher
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
A man who knowingly infected two women with HIV has become the first person in more than a century to be convicted of inflicting biological grievous bodily harm……
Bhullar v Bhullar [2003] EWCA Civ 424 Case Summary
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The Corporate Opportunity Doctrine. Bhullar v Bhullar [2003] EWCA Civ 424 Case Summary2…
Brimelow v Casson
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Brimelow was a theatrical manager and Casson was a member of the Joint Protection Committee, effectively a trade union of sorts….
CCSU v Minister for the Civil Service
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
In the 1980’s, with the United Kingdom under the Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher, it was ruled that any and all employees of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) were prohibited from joining any trade union….
Barclays Bank v Alcorn
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant had argued that the charge did not cover a separate building on the property known as “The Cottage.” The defendant refused to give up……
Barton v County Natwest Bank – 1999
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The plaintiff, County Natwest Ltd (CN), loaned money to a company of which Barton (B) was an officer and guaranteed the value of the loan….
CIBC Mortgages Plc v Pitt – 1994
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The Pitts were husband and wife. The husband, putting her under pressure, convinced his wife to take out a loan on the security of their matrimonial……
Burma Oil Company v Lord Advocate – Case Summary
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The claimant, Burma Oil Company, brought proceedings against the UK government (who were represented in the case by the Lord Advocate)……
British Westinghouse v Electric Railways
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Underground Electric Railways (UER) purchased turbines from British Westinghouse Electric Co (BWEC). The turbines were faulty in that they were……
State Bank of India v Sood – Case Summary
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
In this case, the first and second defendants were the legally registered proprietors of the family home, which the third to seventh……
Bank of Ireland Home Mortgages v Bell
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
A husband and wife jointly owned a house, which acted as the family home for them and their teenage child. The husband subsequently……
Biggs v Hoddinott – Summary
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The plaintiff (B) was a brewer. The defendants (H) were the owners of a hotel. The plaintiff had a mortgage over the hotel….
Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant was the body who employed a doctor who had not given a mentally-ill patient (the claimant) muscle-relaxant drugs nor restrained them prior to giving them electro-convulsive therapy….
Campbell v Mirror Group Newspapers – 2004
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The House of Lords held that the correct test to determine whether information was private was to consider whether a reasonable person of ordinary sensibility placed in the same situation as C would find the disclosure of the information offensive….
B v C – Surrogacy and Adoption Case Summary
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
B v C [2015] EWFC 17; [2015] 1 F.L.R. 1392; [2015] Fam. Law 533 a Surrogacy and Adoption Case Summary….
BBC v Johns – 1965
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Here, the claimants, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) sought to submit that they ought be exempt from income tax……
Cook v Square D Ltd
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The complainant was an electronics engineer that worked for Square D Ltd, a company based in the UK. He worked abroad sometimes and……
Consideration Case Summaries
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Re McArdle (1951) A wife and her three grown-up children lived together in a house. The wife of one of the children did some decorating and later the children promised to pay her £488 and they signed a document to this effect….
Byrne and Co v Van Tienhoven
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendants wrote a letter, on October 1, to the plaintiffs offering the sale of 1000 boxes of tin plates. The defendant was based in Cardiff and the plaintiff was based in New York, and letters took around 10-11 days to be delivered….
Anns v Merton London Borough Council
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The availability of a duty of care in negligence. The local authority approved building plans for a block of flats and the flats were built later that year. …
Attorney-General of Belize v Belize Telecom Ltd – Case Summary
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The Belize government established a company to take over the country’s telecommunications services. The articles of association……
Attorney-General v Antrobus [1905] 2 Ch 188
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The case concerned Stonehenge and the public’s right of access to it. The site’s owner had taken steps to protect the monument by enclosing it with……
Attorney General v Hartwell
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
L, a British Virgin Islands policeman, abandoned his post and travelled to another island. He went into a bar, where his former partner……
A-G’s Ref (No 3 of 1994)
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
B stabbed his pregnant girlfriend, who then prematurely gave birth to S. S was wounded in the stabbing and died after 121 days after being born prematurely….
Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
A joined action was brought by Alcock (C) and several other claimants against the head of the South Yorkshire Police. C and the other claimants all had relatives who were caught up in the Hillsborough Stadium disaster, in which 95 fans of Liverpool FC died….
Arcos v EA Ronaasen & Son – 1933
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
English purchasers concluded a contract for the sale of staves of timber wood from the English agents of a Russian company for the purposes of making cement barrels, specifying staves of Russian redwood and whitewood to be of half-an-inch in thickness…
Attwood v Lamont – 1920
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The plaintiff was a tailor and general outfitter who employed the defendant as an assistant. In the contract of employment, the defendant agreed……
Ali v Khan – 2002 – Summary
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
This case concerned property transferred between a father and daughter. Mr Khan was the sole registered proprietor of the house and he……
Agreement Case Summaries – Formation, Acceptance, Termination
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Agreement case summaries covering formation of a contract, acceptance and termination of an offer. Payne v Cave (1789) – The defendant made the highest bid for the plaintiff’s goods at an auction sale, but he withdrew his bid before the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer….
