Articles tagged as UK Law
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Types of Contract Terms
Contract Law
An explanation of different types of contract terms and their importance, and the impact of terms being broken....
Last modified: 30th Sep 2021
Law of Contract: Offer and Acceptance
Contract Law
Legal recognition of an agreement is given where a contract can be said to have been established between the parties to an agreement....
Last modified: 30th Sep 2021
Re Selectmove - 1995
Case Summaries
Whether variation of an agreement is good consideration.. The Inland Revenue petitioned the court for a winding-up order in respect of a company, Selectmove, which had accrued arrears in the tax it owed under the PAYE system of tax collection. ...
Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
Household Fire Insurance v Grant - 1879
Case Summaries
The defendant, Mr Grant, applied for shares in the complainant’s company, the Household Fire Insurance. The complainants allotted shares to Mr Grant and they completed this contract by posting him a letter with notice of the allotment....
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Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services
Case Summaries
The bench deemed that here it would have been inherently unjust to deny the claimants any remedy. Thus, where the facts are such that the ‘but for’ test cannot be reasonably or fairly applied, the ‘materially increased risk’ of harm test may be used....
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R v Church - 1966
Case Summaries
Mr Church and the victim were in a van for sexual purposes. The victim started mocking him and a fight ensued. He knocked the victim semi-conscious. After his attempts to rouse her proved unsuccessful, he panicked, thought the victim was dead and threw her into the river. ...
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Haynes v Harwood
Case Summaries
The plaintiff was a police constable on duty inside a police station, located in a busy street, often attended by many people, including children. The defendants owned a two-horse van which was left unattended by its driver in the same street. ...
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Robinson v Harman - 1848
Case Summaries
Agreement to grant a lease; lessor did not have good title; measure of damages. Harman wrote to Robinson offering him a 21-year lease of a dwelling house in Croydon. He subsequently changed his mind and refused to complete the lease....
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Curtis v Chemical Cleaning & Dyeing Co - 1951
Case Summaries
Affirms that when a party misrepresents the significance of a term, it ceases to be contractually binding. The claimant, Curtis, took her wedding dress to be cleaned by a professional laundry service, the defendants, the Chemical Cleaning and Dyeing Company....
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Bird v Jones - 1845
Case Summaries
Bird, B, wished to cross a section of a public road which was closed off due to a boat race. Two policemen, D, prevented B from passing in the direction he wished to go, but was allowed to go in the only other direction in which he could pass....
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Miller v Jackson - 1977
Case Summaries
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....
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Henthorn v Fraser - 1892
Case Summaries
The complainant and the defendant had been negotiating the purchase price of houses. An original offer to buy the houses for £600 had been rejected. ...
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Tuberville v Savage - 1669
Case Summaries
Whether a threatening declaration of future harm constituted an unlawful assault.. A man placed his hand on his sword and told another, “If it were not assize-time, I would not take such language.” The justices of assize were in town....
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Jones v Lipman [1962]
Case Summaries
Lipman agreed to sell a property to Jones for £5,250, but subsequently changed his mind. He then formed his own company, which had £100 in capital, and made himself the director and owner. ...
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McLoughlin v O'Brian
Case Summaries
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....
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Gillick v West Norfolk AHA
Case Summaries
Gillick was a landmark decision which raised a number of complex legal issues. The House of Lords were called upon to resolve, first and foremost, the extent of the parental right to control a minor child and when, and indeed whether, such a minor could receive contraceptive advice....
Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
Wheeldon v Burrows (1879)
Case Summaries
It was usual for implied grants and easements over tenements to be passed down or to continue over the land. Usually, they were granted as part of the enjoyment of the land and there are no corresponding implications in favour of the grantor....
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Blackpool and Fylde Aero Club v Blackpool BC
Case Summaries
The defendants were a local authority that managed the local airport as its owners. They had granted the plaintiffs, who were a flight club, a concession to operate casual flights out of the airport. ...
Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
Oscar Chess v Williams - 1957
Case Summaries
The steps to be taken in identifying a warranty. The defendants sold a Morris car to the claimants, who were motor traders, for £290. The defendants provided a copy of the vehicles first registration indicating that the car was first registered in 1948....
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Scott v Shepherd - 1773 (Famous Squib)
Case Summaries
Scott v Shepherd has become known as the Famous Squib case. The court dismissed the appeal; the injury to the complainant was the direct and unlawful act of the defendant who originally threw and intended to throw the squib....
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Parker v South Eastern Railway
Case Summaries
Deposit of bag in railway cloak room; effect of exclusion clause on ticket and on notice. Parker paid to leave his bag in the cloakroom of South Eastern Railway (SER). There was a notice within the cloakroom stating that SER would not be responsible for any deposits exceeding £10. in value....
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Wilsher v Essex Area Health Authority
Case Summaries
Claimant always holds the burden of proving likely causation. An infant was delivered prematurely and shortly after was administered oxygen by a junior doctor, accidentally providing too much....
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DPP v Smith - 1961
Case Summaries
Whether mens rea for murder is subjective or objective. Jim Smith (S) was ordered by a police constable to stop his car which contained stolen goods, however S accelerated instead....
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Ramsgate Victoria Hotel v Montefiore - 1866
Case Summaries
The defendant, Mr Montefiore, wanted to purchase shares in the complainant’s hotel. He put in his offer to the complainant and paid a deposit to his bank account to buy them in June....
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R v R - 1992
Case Summaries
The defendant married his wife (complainant) in August 1984. After the marriage did not work, she moved out in October 1989 and took her son to live with her parents. At the time of the incident in November 1989, they were separated but not legally divorced....
Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
