Articles tagged as UK Law
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Issue of Self-defence
Criminal Law
The applied issue of self-defence is whether actus rea was present. The case of Munir Hussain highlights the issue of when self-defence goes beyond the remit of law and the act becomes grievous bodily harm (GBH)....
Last modified: 6th Jan 2021
Associated Japanese Bank v Credit Du Nord
Case Summaries
The complainants, Associated Japanese Bank, bought three engineering machines from a client that turned out to be a rogue....
Last modified: 5th Jan 2021
Attorney-General of Belize v Belize Telecom Ltd - Case Summary
Case Summaries
The Belize government established a company to take over the country’s telecommunications services. The articles of association......
Last modified: 5th Jan 2021
Bunge Corporation v Tradax Export
Case Summaries
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......
Last modified: 5th Jan 2021
Bull v Bull - 1955
Case Summaries
A mother and son jointly purchased a property, however the son contributed a greater proportion of the original purchase price......
Last modified: 5th Jan 2021
Ancell v McDermott
Case Summaries
The first defendant, while driving his car, ran over an aluminum tube which had fallen from the fourth defendant’s truck, ruptured his fuel tank, leaving......
Last modified: 5th Jan 2021
Crown River Cruises v Kimbolton Fireworks - 1996
Case Summaries
The defendants, Kimbolton Fireworks, carried out a short firework display that lasted for some twenty minutes or so. As a result of the fireworks display......
Last modified: 5th Jan 2021
Barrett v Ministry of Defence
Case Summaries
The plaintiff was the widow of the deceased, who was a British naval army serviceman. He died of asphyxiation on his own vomit after......
Last modified: 5th Jan 2021
Capital and Counties v Hampshire CC
Case Summaries
The decision is on three conjoined appeals from three separate decisions. Hampshire County Council (HCC) – the defendant, appealed a decision that the......
Last modified: 5th Jan 2021
Parsons (Livestock) v Uttley Ingham
Case Summaries
Parsons ordered a bulk storage hopper to store pignuts to feed their top-grade pigs from the defendants. When installing the hopper, the defendants failed......
Last modified: 5th Jan 2021
Avon Insurance v Swire Fraser - Facts
Case Summaries
The claimant was a stop loss insurance company which made a claim against the defendant insurance brokers under the Misrepresentation Act 1967......
Last modified: 4th Jan 2021
Spurling v Bradshaw - 1956
Case Summaries
Bradshaw alleged Spurling were negligent, and in breach of an implied term to take reasonable care of the barrels because they had left them......
Last modified: 4th Jan 2021
Alan v El Nasr
Case Summaries
This case concerns the sale of coffee beans between a Kenyan coffee business (A) and a Tanzanian based buyer (El Nasr), who then resold the product....
Last modified: 4th Jan 2021
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973
Act Summaries
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) is the law within England and Wales that governs divorce. Prior to the enactment of the MCA 1973, the first law that governed divorce was the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 (MCA 1857)....
Last modified: 4th Jan 2021
Hammond v Mitchell [1991]
Case Summaries
Cohabitee seeking equitable interest in property held in sole name of former partner....
Last modified: 4th Jan 2021
Lavarack v Woods of Colchester
Case Summaries
Lavarack was employed by Woods of Colchester (WOC). Under the employment contract, he was to earn £4,000 per year and such bonuses as the directors......
Last modified: 4th Jan 2021
Davis v Johnson
Case Summaries
Exclusion orders of a cohabiting joint tenant from a matrimonial home under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial......
Last modified: 30th Dec 2020
R v Khan [1990] 2 All ER 783
Case Summaries
Four men, Mohammed Iqbal Khan, Mahesh Dhokia, Jaswinder Singh Banga and Navaid Faiz (A) were charged with the attempted rape of a......
Last modified: 30th Dec 2020
Eastham v Newcastle United Football Club
Case Summaries
The governing body of football in England (FA) provides that a player must register with the association of his club and while so registered......
Last modified: 30th Dec 2020
Matharu v Matharu (1994)
Case Summaries
The claimant allowed his son and daughter-in-law to live on his property as their family home for many years....
Last modified: 30th Dec 2020
Dillwyn v Llewelyn [1862]
Case Summaries
A father signed a memorandum leaving his farm to his son. However, this memorandum was not executed by deed....
Last modified: 30th Dec 2020
Habermann v Koehler and another [2000]
Case Summaries
The appellants had been permitted to occupy a home owner's property, and had been given an informal option to later......
Last modified: 30th Dec 2020
Eves v Eves - 1975
Case Summaries
The woman sought a declaration that she held a beneficial interest in the home. The woman contended the house had been jointly acquired…...
Last modified: 30th Dec 2020
Nimmo v Alexander Cowan and Sons Ltd
Case Summaries
An employee of a factory was unloading railway wagons filled with bales of pulp for which he was required on some bales....
Last modified: 29th Dec 2020
Nottingham Patent Brick v Butler - 1886
Case Summaries
The owner of land divided it into thirteen plots and sold these to various buyers over a period of three years. The conveyances all contained covenants......
Last modified: 29th Dec 2020
