Case Summaries

Massey v Boulden – 2002

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The case revolved around an open green space close to a public highway between Bilsington and Hythe, known as the Pinn, as well as adjacent land… ...

Massey v Boulden [2002]

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The case revolved around an open green space close to a public highway between Bilsington and Hythe… ...

Massey v Midland Bank

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Ms Massey owned a house. Her companion (although they did not live together), P, convinced to charge the house as security for an overdraft… ...

Matharu v Matharu (1994)

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The claimant allowed his son and daughter-in-law to live on his property as their family home for many years. ...

Matthews v Ministry of Defence – Summary

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Matthews was an electrical mechanic in the Royal Navy for some 13 years. Decades after his service ended he was diagnosed as having asbestos-related… ...

Matthews v United Kingdom (1999) 28 EHRR 361 (ECHR)

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Case Summary of Matthews v United Kingdom (1999) 28 EHRR 361 (ECtHR). Article 3 Protocol 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). ...

May and Butcher Ltd v The King

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After the end of the First World War, the Government had a surplus of tents which were no longer required by the army. As a result, the Government’s disposal’s board was set up to sell these tents. They agreed to sell tents to May and Butcher Ltd who left £1,000 as a security deposit for their purchases. ...

Mbasogo v Logo Ltd – Summary

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The action was launched by the President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and related to an alleged coup d’etat against the President and his… ...

McCann and Others v UK – 1995

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The applicants lodged an application with the Commission on 14 August 1991, on the grounds that the deaths of Daniel McCann, Mairead Farrell and Sean Savage by members of the SAS were in violation of Article 2 of the ECHR; ...

McCormick v Lord Advocate

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Whether Queen Elizabeth II could use ‘II’ in Scotland where there had never been an Elizabeth I; consideration of judicial… ...

McCutheon v David MacBrayne Ltd – 1964

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McCutheon delivered his car to the defendant shipping company for carriage from the Hebrides to the mainland. The car was destroyed when the ship sank because of the company’s negligence. ...

McFarlane v EE Caledonia Ltd

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The claimant (C) was on board a vessel which was called upon to attend to the serious fire that had broken out on the oil rig… ...

McGhee v National Coal Board – 1973

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To satisfy causation, a claimant need only prove that the negligent behaviour most likely made a material contribution to the injury. The claimant, McGhee, contracted a skin condition (dermatitis) in the course of his employment with the defendant, the National Coal Board. ...

McGowan v Radio Buxton Case

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Ms. McGowan participated in a competition on a radio station for which the advertised prize was claimed to be a Renault Clio car. ...

McInerny v Lloyds Bank Ltd – 1974

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The defendant bank made arrangements for one party’s (T) commercial credit to facilitate the purchase of companies belonging to another party (P). P was to take bills of exchange in instalments over six years to pay for the price of the purchase. ...

McKew v Holland – 1969

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In the course of his employment, the complainant had suffered injuries, which meant his left leg could give way underneath him. A few days after the incident and while in his recovery, the complainant tried to come down a set of steep steps, which did not have a handrail. ...

McLoughlin v O’Brian

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In finding for C the House of Lords emphasised that recovery in such cases was not limited to those who were participants in the event, and who feared that they or a close relative would suffer some sort of personal injuries. ...

McRae v Commonwealth Disposals Commission

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The complainant, McRae, won a tender from the defendants, Commonwealth Disposals Commission, to retrieve an oil tanker that was on Jourmaund Reef near Samarai. However, when the complainant went to the location, after laying out significant expenses for the salvage, they discovered that in fact there was no oil tanker. ...

McWilliams v Sir Arrol

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The claimant was an experienced steel erecter who fell 70 feet to his death from a steel tower he was working on. His employer had failed to… ...

Meates v Westpac Corp

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Mr. Meates was a businessman who supported the campaign of the leader of the New Zealand Labour Party in 1972. Throughout the elections… ...

Medforth v Blake

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In 1984 the defendants were appointed as receivers over the pig-farming business of the plaintiff. After the receivership had ended… ...

Medforth v Blake [2000]

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In 1984 the defendants were appointed as receivers over the pig-farming business of the plaintiff. ...

Mehra v Shah

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Mr Shah and his wife had 12 children together. He ran a successful drapery business in Nairobi, which soon expanded to two shops. Some of the children helped out with the business and when they were older, they worked for the shops without receiving pay. ...

Mehta v Royal Bank of Scotland

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The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) were the mortgagees in possession of a hotel in Kensington. ...

Melbury Road Properties 1995 Ltd v Kreidi

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LAND LAW – REGISTRATION – CONSTRUCTIVE TRUST. The defendant sought to extend his lease pursuant to a statutory framework. He served the notice of claim required, and was later informed… ...

Melluish v BMI

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The appellant company provided equipment, such as central heating and crematoria equipment, for local authorities to use in their properties. ...

Melluish v BMI (No. 3)

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BMI acquired and then hired out plant and machinery, such as central heating equipment and crematoria equipment, to local authorities. In each case… ...

Mendelssohn v Normand Ltd – Case

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The Claimant parked in a garage owned and operated by the Defendant. There was a notice board in the car park which stipulated that the Defendant would… ...

Mens Rea Intention Table | Law Essays

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DECISION ON HOW INTENTION IS TO BE ESTABLISHED ...

Meretz investments v ACP

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The claimants (M and B) brought an action against the defendants (X, F and T) in connection with the purported sale by F to T of a long lease of a partially completed penthouse development on the roof of a block of flats. ...

Merritt v Merritt – 1970

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Husband agreed to transfer home to wife on separation; whether intention to create legal relations. Mr Merritt contended the agreement was a domestic arrangement between husband and wife and there was no intention to create legal relations… ...

Mersey Docks and Harbour Board v Cameron

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Historically, municipal docks were immune from the rates typically payable by docks to the Crown as a result of their connection… ...

Metropolitan Police Commissioner v Caldwell

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The appellant had worked in a hotel and during this employment he developed a grudge against the hotel owner. This eventually came to the… ...

Metropolitan Police Commissioner v Charles

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The defendant’s bank account was overdrawn and he had been warned by his bank manager not to write more than one cheque a day for more than £30. ...

Meyer v Riddick

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Joint tenancy and the interests of beneficiaries under a trust in the property. ...

Midland Bank Plc v Pike

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The Midland Bank Plc were owed a sum of £55,000 by Mr Pike. Midland Bank secured a judgment debt against Mr Pike… ...

Midland Bank Trust Co Ltd v Green (No. 1)

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For the consideration of £1, W granted G the option to buy a farm, title to which was unregistered. This was an estate contract and so a legal ...

Midland Bank Trust Co Ltd v Green (No. 1)

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A father granted his son, Green, an option to purchase a farm. The option was not registered on the Register of Title. To avoid the option, the father sold the farm to his wife for £500. The farm was really worth £40,000. ...

Mileform Ltd v Interserve Security Ltd

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Mileform provided packaging, warehousing and the distribution of products for the defendant. M claimed that the parties had agreed… ...

Miles v Easter

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Company S bought some land and mortgaged it to a bank. They later sold a part of this land to B. ...

Miles v Forest Rock Granite

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The defendant had brought some explosives onto his land and used them to blast rocks which had already been naturally occurring on his land. ...

Miller | Criminal Law Case | Law Teacher

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Miller. The actus reus of the offence of arson, contrary to s 1(1) and (3)a of the Criminal Damage Act 1971… ...

Miller v Jackson – 1977

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Case Summary of Miller v Jackson [1977] 1 QB 966. Nuisance in tort law and the defence of coming to the nuisance. The case of Miller v Jackson1 is a case on nuisance. The tort of nuisance provides that there will be a remedy where an indirect and unreasonable interference to land has occurred. ...

Miller v Jackson [1977]

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Nuisance and negligence, the existence of a defence of coming to the nuisance ...

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 ...

Miller v Prime Minister 2019

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This case concerns the conglomeration of two appeals, one from the High Court of England and Wales and one from the Inner House of the Court of Session in Scotland. ...

Mills v News Group Newspapers

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The claimant was Heather Mills who was publicly associated with Sir Paul McCartney. She had contracted to buy a new house and was anxious… ...

Mills v Silver [1991]

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Silver purchased a hill farm which only had one access for vehicles, which was along the track over Mill’s… ...

Ministry of Sound v World Online

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M was one of a group of companies that appealed against a summary judgment that had refused its application for the payment of a final instalment… ...

Moeliker v A Reyolle – 1977

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The claimant had been apprenticed to the defendant company when he was a teenager and had been employed by them ever since. ...

Mogul Steamship Co v McGregor

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The plaintiffs were independent shipowners who sent their ships to the cargo port to obtain cargo. An association (the defendants)… ...

Mohamud v WM Morrison Supermarkets plc

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Mohamud had used a petrol station kiosk and approached a member of staff with a question. The employee responded in an aggressive manner and demanded that Mohamud leave immediately. ...

Monarch Airlines v London Luton Airport

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The Claimant airline had one of its planes damaged by a loose paving stone, while taxing on the runway of the airport operated by the Defendant. ...

Monarch Steamship v Karlshamns – 1949

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Karlshamms Oljiefabriker (KO) entered a contract in April 1939 with Monarch Steamship Co (MSC) to transport beans to a specific port. ...

Moncrieff v Jamieson

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Easements and ancillary rights between dominant and servient tenements. The case was an appeal against an earlier case which had ruled that where one had a right of vehicular access from a public road, this also meant that they had a right to park on the servient tenement. ...

Monsanto v Tilly [1999]

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The claimant was a company that had been granted a licence by the government to carry research into genetically… ...

Monson v Tussauds Ltd

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The claimant was tried for murder by gunshot in Scotland for which the jury returned a verdict of “not proven”. The defendants exhibited wax figures of… ...

Morales v Eccleston

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The defendant, Ecclestone, was driving at 20 mph along in a traffic stream along a road that was 30 feet wide. The plaintiff, Morales, who as… ...

Morgan Crucible v Hill Samuel

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The plaintiffs were bidding to take over a third party company, which was being advised by the defendants. During the bidding process, the defendants made a number of negligent misrepresentations to the third party company, which resulted the plaintiffs suffering a loss. ...

Morgan v Odhams Press

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The defendant was a journalist collecting material on a dog doping gang story, whereby he put a key witness (who agreed to talk to him) under his surveillance while investigations were ongoing. ...

Morrells of Oxford Ltd v OUFC

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The claimant (M) applied for an injunction to enforce a restrictive covenant contained in a conveyance of land against O, who proposed to convert the land to use a football stadium. ...

Morris v Murray – 1991

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After drinking alcohol the whole afternoon, the plaintiff and his friend decided to go on a flight in the friend’s light aircraft. The plaintiff drove a… ...

Mortgage Corporation v Shaire

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Fox and Shaire held a property as joint tenants in law and as tenants in common in equity, with ownership divided… ...

MRI Trading AG v Erdenet

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By a contract governed by an English choice of law clause a Mongolian mining company, Erdenet, and a Swiss trading company… ...

Mulcahy v Ministry of Defence – 1996

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The plaintiff was a soldier serving for the British Army in the Gulf War and was part of the team manning a howitzer. His unit was deployed in Saudi Arabia… ...

Mullin v Richards 1998

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The defendant was a 15-year-old girl who play-fought with rulers with another 15-year-old girl (the claimant). In the course of the game, the defendant’s ruler snapped, causing a splinter to hit the claimant in the eye, blinding her. ...

Murder and Unlawful Killing Cases

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Murder is a crime of specific intent. Intention in this context includes direct or oblique intent. Direct intent covers the situation where the defendant desired the death. Oblique intent covers the situation where the death is foreseen by the defendant as virtually certain, although not desired for its own sake. ...

Murphy v Brentwood District Council

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The defendant local authority had negligently approved plans for the footings of a house (a task which fell within its responsibility in accordance with the provisions of the Public Health Act 1936). The claimant purchased the property, but some time afterwards it began to subside as a result of defects in the footings. ...

Murray v Ministry of Defence – 1988

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Margaret Murray, M, was a suspect of aiding IRA, a prohibited organisation in Northern Ireland. D and five soldiers arrived at M’s house to arrest M at 7a. D ascertained M’s identity, assembled all the occupants of the house in one room, and searched the house. ...

Museprime Properties Ltd v Adhill Properties

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Three properties (940, 942, 944) contained commercial premises and residential accommodation. The rent review on each property was scheduled after… ...

Musgrove v Pandelis

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The Claimant rented rooms above a domestic garage in which the Defendant kept a car. The Defendant’s employee (his chauffeur) was instructed to clean the car and attempted to move it in order to carry out that instruction. ...

Muskett v Hill (1839)

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The claimant was a mining group which had been purportedly assigned a person’s right to mine and keep metals… ...

Muskett v Hill and Tozer

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A miner was granted a license to search and mine for metal on the defendant’s land, and to keep and use any metal which he found for his own purposes. ...

National Car Parks Ltd v Trinity Development Co (Banbury) Ltd

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Landlord and tenant; whether agreement in relation to a car park was a lease or license ...

National Carriers Ltd v Panalpina (Northern) Ltd

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Lease of warehouse; local authority closed access road; whether lease frustrated. National Carriers Ltd (NCL) granted Panalpina a 10-year lease of a warehouse. The sole means of accessing the warehouse was via a road which was closed by the local authority for 20 months. ...

National Coal Board v Gamble

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M, who worked for a haulier firm, had his lorry filled up at a National Coal Board (NCB) colliery. He then drove to a weighbridge… ...

National Coal Board v JE Evans & Co

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An electrical cable was placed under the land of the county council by the National Coal Board (NCB) or its predecessors, without the… ...

National Phonograph Company v Edison

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The plaintiffs were manufacturers who sold wholesale goods to factors upon the terms of an agreement which provided that only factors…nati ...

National Provincial Bank Ltd v Hastings Car Mart Ltd

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A man was the sole registered proprietor of the home he occupied with his family. He transferred the property to his company, which used… ...

National Provincial Bank v Ainsworth

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A man, his wife and children were occupants of a piece of property, though the defendant was the sole registered proprietor. The property was later used to secure an overdraft for the his company, and the bank which granted the overdraft registered a charge against the house accordingly. ...

National Westminster Bank v Morgan – 1985

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The defendants were a married couple who bought a house on mortgage. Their payments fell into arrears and the building society… ...

National Westminster Bank v Skelton

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The claimant bank sought repossession of the defendants’ dwelling house in terms of a legal mortgage. The mortgage in favour of the bank was as… ...

Necessity Law Law Case Summaries

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Necessity Law. Necessity law arises where a defendant is forced by circumstances to transgress the criminal law. The generally accepted position is that necessity cannot be a defence to a criminal charge. The leading case is… ...

Negligence Causation Cases

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Negligence Causation Cases. The plaintiff was a police dog handler. In 1987 he had been involved in a serious and frightening criminal incident. In 1993 an accident involving the… ...

Negligence Duty Of Care Cases | Tort Law Cases

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Example cases from English tort law covering negligence and duty of care, and economic loss. ...

Negligence in Public Policy Case Summaries

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According to the ILEx Part 2 syllabus, candidates need to be aware of the continuing trend to restrict liability particularly for public bodies eg X v Bedfordshire County Council… ...

Nelson v Walker (1910)

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The parties were owners of two contiguous allotments of land (allotments 13 and 12). In 1873, before the owners… ...

Nettleship v Weston 1971

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Case Summary of Nettleship v Weston [1971] 2 QB 691. The case of Nettleship v Weston1 concerned the concept of a duty of care which is a fundamental element of the tort of negligence. ...

New Hampshire Insurance v MGN

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The dispute concerned a number of fidelity insurance contracts. The defendants were all insured companies within the Maxwell Group of companies. ...

New Zealand Shipping v Satterthwaite – 1975

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When performance of an existing duty to third party can be consideration. The appellants were stevedores engaged as independent contractors to unload machinery from a ship. The contract between the respondent machinery owners and the carriers contained a limitation clause. ...

Newstead v London Express Newspaper

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A newspaper published details of a bigamy trial and referred to the accused as “Harold Newstead, thirty-year-old Camberwell man.” Another man… ...

Newton Abbot Co-op v Williamson and Treadgold

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A vendor, who was an ironmonger, sold part of a property to a purchaser with the inclusion of a covenant which restricted… ...

Nicholls v Lan

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A married couple, the Nicholls, jointly owned a property. Mr Nicholls subsequently entered bankruptcy… ...

Nickerson v Barraclough [1981]

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Nickerson purchased a land locked field that had a lane running down the side of it for access to the main road. Barraclough owned the lane. ...

Nicklinson v Ministry of Justice 2014

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This appeal is concerning the law in relation to assisted suicide and whether it contravenes with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Article 8 right to respect for private and family life. ...