Articles tagged as UK Law
UK law covers the laws and legislation of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Essays, case summaries, problem questions and dissertations here are relevant to law students from the United Kingdom and Great Britain, as well as students wishing to learn more about the UK legal system from overseas.
Latest Law Papers tagged as UK Law
Including law essays, dissertations, problem questions, case summaries, and law lectures, suitable for law students working towards their LLB / LLM qualifications or those studying for the new SQE.
South Wales Miners Federation v Glamorgan Coal Company
Case Summaries
The federation was a trade union, formed to consider trade and wages, to protect the workmen and regulate relations. The wages were paid on a sliding scale agreement in accordance with the rising and falling price of coal. ...
Last modified: 22nd Oct 2021
Corporation v Skibs A/S Avanti
Case Summaries
The Defendant owned two tankers that were charted to the Plaintiff for three years. The Plaintiff’s financial situation began to deteriorate, so they approached the Defendant requesting that the rates for the charter were reduced as the company had suffered massive losses ...
Last modified: 22nd Oct 2021
R v Jones and Smith – 1976
Case Summaries
The defendants, Jones and Smith, entered Smith’s father’s house and stole two television sets. At his trial, Smith said that his father had given him unreserved permission to enter the house. They were convicted of burglary and subsequently appealed. ...
Last modified: 22nd Oct 2021
R v Flattery – 1877
Case Summaries
The defendant, John Flattery (JF) posed as a medical doctor and surgeon. The complainant, a young woman aged 19, consulted JF with respect to an illness she was suffering, accompanied by her mother. ...
Last modified: 22nd Oct 2021
M’Naghten Rules: Knowledge of Wrong and the Windle Case
Criminal Law
This essay will explore the understanding of M’Naghten Rules and the exploration of the Windle case. It will consider whether the “Knowledge of Wrong” as defined by M’Naghten is a satisfactory test of criminality or not, and explore the argument for a review. ...
Last modified: 22nd Oct 2021
R v Lamb 1967
Case Summaries
Case Summary of R v Lamb 1967 2 QB 981. Involuntary Manslaughter. The appellate judgment of R v Lamb 1967 2 QB 981 (Lamb) clarifies the requisite elements required to satisfy any of the forms of involuntary manslaughter. ...
Last modified: 22nd Oct 2021
Mehra v Shah
Case Summaries
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. ...
Last modified: 22nd Oct 2021
Fisher v Bell – 1961
Case Summaries
The defendant shopkeeper displayed in his shop window a flick knife accompanied by a price ticket displayed just behind it. He was charged with offering for sale a flick knife, contrary to s. 1 (1) of the Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959. ...
Last modified: 22nd Oct 2021
Davis v Smith [2011]
Case Summaries
A husband and wife married in 1988, after which they moved into a property which Mrs Smith had already been a tenant of for some time. In 1989, they purchased the property as joint tenants. ...
Last modified: 22nd Oct 2021
Re Page’s Application
Case Summaries
The applicant sought to convert a stable into a dwelling to allow her to live near to her horses. The applicant had acquired planning permission, but was restrained from starting work by a restrictive covenant. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
AG for Northern Ireland v Gallagher
Case Summaries
Whether Gallagher was insane at the time of killing or was incapable of forming an intent necessary to constitute murder as he was drunk. Secondly, whether the M’Naughten test had been correctly applied. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Robert Addie v Dumbreck
Case Summaries
A four-year-old boy was killed as a result of being crushed by the wheel of a haulage system which belonged to a colliery company. The field in which the system was situated in was surrounded by a large hedge, which was essentially ineffective due to the large gaps in it ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Exchange Telegraph v Gregory
Case Summaries
Exchange Telegraph (ET) was a news agency that sent telegraph messages. It transmitted the latest stock exchange updates, had them typed up and made into a newspaper. It contracted subscribers to sell the newspaper. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Gravy Solutions Ltd v Xyzmo Software
Case Summaries
Gravy sought to impose a freezing injunction against a company related to Xyzmo (called Z), after commission Gravy alleged to have earned was not paid and neither was the principal sum. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Felthouse v Bindley – (1862)
Case Summaries
The complainant, Paul Felthouse, had a conversation with his nephew, John Felthouse, about buying his horse. After their discussion, the uncle replied by letter stating that if he didn’t hear anymore from his nephew concerning the horse, he would consider acceptance of the order done and he would own the horse. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Nickerson v Barraclough [1981]
Case Summaries
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. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Re Hackney Pavilion Ltd – 1924
Case Summaries
The case addresses the transfer of shares in situations where the board fails to reach a consensus in passing a resolution and where the articles state that board approval is required. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Hyam v DPP – 1975
Case Summaries
The defendant Hyam had been in a relationship with a man before the relationship ended. Hyam then had become jealous of her ex-boyfriend’s new fiancée Ms Booth. She poured petrol through Booth’s letter box and then ignited it using a rolled up newspaper. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Lumley v Gye – 1853
Case Summaries
Miss Wagner was an opera singer at Lumley’s theatre on a three month contract. Gye and Wagner made an agreement that Wagner would break her contract and refuse to sing at Lumley’s theatre. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Cattle v Stockton Waterworks
Case Summaries
Stockton Waterworks Co laid down one of their main roads along and under a turnpike road. Private property was either side of the road. The landowner employed Cattle to make a tunnel under the road so he could access his land on the other side of the road easily. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Wheeler v Copas – 1981
Case Summaries
The plaintiff was a partner in a bricklaying company. The defendant was a farmer who wanted a house built on his farm and negotiated for this directly with the plaintiff. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Troughton v MPC
Case Summaries
The defendant got into a taxi whilst heavily intoxicated and asked to be driven to Highbury but did not specify his address. The driver stopped to obtain clearer directions from the defendant ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
DHN Food v Tower Hamlets
Case Summaries
Piercing the corporate veil – groups of companies. DHN Food Distributors Ltd v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council [1976] 1 WLR 852 Case Summary. An example of piercing the corporate veil. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Henderson v Eason (Statute of Anne)
Case Summaries
Liability for shares of profits of tenants in common under the Statute of Anne. A farmland was jointly owned by two persons as tenants in common. One co-owner, the tenant in occupation, cultivated the land profited from the produce. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Henry Williams v James Bayley
Case Summaries
Bayley’s son took promissory notes to a bank, which he had forged in his father’s name and without his father’s knowledge. The notes were fraudulent. Bayley’s son had done this several times and gotten away with it. ...
Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
