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Bruton v London & Quadrant Housing Trust
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The defendant was a voluntary housing trust that focussed on homelessness. The local authority had granted the trust a licence to use short-life properties as temporary accommodation for homeless people who were on the waiting list for a home, before these properties were later developed...
Financings Ltd v Stimson - 1962
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The case regarded a hire purchase transaction, in which the dealer was an agent of the finance company. The hirer paid a deposit of £70 to a dealer and agreed to purchase a motor car from the plaintiff, a finance company, for £414....
Beard v London General Omnibus
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Employer’s vicarious liability for an employee’s negligent act outside his scope of employment.The conductor of an omnibus drove the omnibus through side streets, outside of the bus route, at a fast pace in the absence of the bus driver. In doing so, he negligently hit and injured a man....
R v Quick [1973] QB 910
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The appellant (a nurse at a hospital) was a diabetic who suffered from hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar). He had taken insulin in the morning for his condition but had not eaten much during the day and had imbibed alcohol....
Sumpter v Hedges - 1898
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A builder contracted to build two houses and stables for the lump sum of £565. The builder only completed part of the work, after which he abandoned the contract. The completed works amounted to a value of £333....
R v Turner (No 2) - 1971
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Theft of a car which was in the possession and control of a garage. The Defendant (T) took his car to a garage for repairs. The repairs were completed by the garage and the car was left outside the garage on the road....
Soering v UK
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Soering v United Kingdom (1989) concerns Articles 3, 6 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) 1950 and the potential extradition to the USA by the UK of a West German national to face trial in Virginia, USA on a murder charge....
R v Instan - 1893
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Instan was cared for and maintained by her seventy-three-year-old aunt who was the deceased in this case. The deceased was healthy until shortly before her death before she contracted gangrene in her leg which prevented her from moving and caring for herself....
Froom v Butcher - 1976
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The plaintiff was not wearing a seatbelt whilst driving because he did not like seatbelts and because he had seen drivers being trapped after a crash because they wore a seatbelt. After a crash, the plaintiff suffered head and chest injuries and a broken finger....
RTS Flexible Systems Ltd v Molkerei
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The claimant was a supplier of automated machines and agreed to manufacture an automated system in the defendant’s factory. Work began on the basis of a letter of intent with a long form contract to follow. ...
R v Malcherek and Steel
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Malcherek stabbed his wife in the abdomen. She was treated for the wound and a few days later she collapsed in hospital. She subsequently had surgery to remove a blood clot during which her heart stopped beating for thirty minutes before it was restarted by the doctors again....
Miller v Miller: McFarlane v McFarlane
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Miller v Miller: McFarlane v McFarlane is a conjoined appeal case regarding financial provision offered in circumstances of divorce. The law with regards to financial provision has undergone extensive developments in order to accommodate cultural changes...
Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran
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In 1955 the claimant (C) acquired a plot of land with a view to building a road diversion. The land was left vacant for many years. The roadside of the plot was fenced but there was no fence between the garden of a house owned by the defendant’s predecessor....
Heilbut, Symons & Co v Buckleton - 1913
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The defendants, Heilbut et al, were merchants during the rubber trade boom of the 1910’s who claimed to underwrite shares in a rubber trading corporation (‘Filisola Rubber and Produce Estates Ltd’)....
Haley v London Electricity Board - 1965
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The defendant’s employees dug a hole in a pavement. When they left the area on their break, they realised that they had not been provided with the necessary materials to fence off the area. ...
R v Allen
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Mr Allen consumed homemade wine that unknowingly to him was much stronger than he initially thought. As such, it had a much stronger effect on him than he anticipated....
Luxor v Cooper - 1941
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Luxor v Cooper assessed the agents right to remuneration where they have conducted work on behalf of the principal and there is either no formal contract or the contract is silent as to the level of remuneration to be paid....
Prudential Assurance v London Residuary Body
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Landlord and tenant; whether land held on yearly tenancy; whether agreement terminable by successor. A strip of land adjacent to a highway was sold to the council. The council leased the land back to the seller and the agreement stated the grant was to last until the council required the land for road widening purposes....
Parker v Clark - 1960
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The Clarks were an elderly married couple. Mrs Parker was Mrs Clark’s niece, and Mr Clark suggested she and her husband move into their home with them. Mr Parker supported the idea but expressed concern that it would mean their selling their own house....
Stovin v Wise - 1996
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The availability of a private law claim in negligence in respect of a failure of a local authority to comply with a public law discretion. A local authority was aware that a bank of land was obstructing the view at a junction where three accidents had occurred in the previous twelve years....
Sweet v Parsley - 1970
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The appellant, Stephanie Sweet (S), was a sub-tenant of a farmhouse, where cannabis resin was found. S no longer lived in the house and had let out several rooms to tenants. She did retain a room but only returned occasionally to collect letters and rent....
Lloyds Bank v Bundy - 1975
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Mr Bundy was elderly farmer. He and his son were long-time customers at Lloyds Bank – the son’s company also banked there. Lloyds guaranteed the company’s overdraft and charged the farm as security....
Cassidy v Daily Mirror Newspapers
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Libel; husband and wife; statement for per se defamatory. The claimant was known as the lawfully wedded wife of a famous race-horse owner and former General of the Mexican Army....
Burmah Oil v Lord Advocate
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The claimant, Burmah Oil Company, brought proceedings against the UK government (who were represented in the case by the Lord Advocate) seeking compensation for the destruction of oil fields in Burma by British forces in 1942 (during the Second World War). ...
Kleinwort Benson v Malaysian Mining Corp
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Intention to create legal relations in the formation of contracts. A company incorporated in Malaysia, acquired a cash loan from merchant bankers for the purposes of funding its subsidiary trading company in London....
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