Articles tagged as UK Law

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Makdessi v Cavendish Square Holdings

Case Summaries

The first case, Makdessi, involved the sale of a controlling interest in a marketing company where the defendant agreed to sell his stake to the claimant. In the second case, ParkingEye, the defendant parked his vehicle in a shopping centre which was privately owned and managed by the claimant. ...

Last modified: 28th Oct 2021

A-G’s Ref (No 3 of 1994)

Case Summaries

B stabbed his pregnant girlfriend, who then prematurely gave birth to S. S was wounded in the stabbing and died after 121 days after being born prematurely. ...

Last modified: 28th Oct 2021

Hoenig v Isaacs – 1952

Case Summaries

The performance of a contract and the right to terminate for repudiatory breach. A contract was concluded for the redecoration of a one-room flat for the lump sum of £750. Upon completion, there remained an outstanding of balance of £350 for the contractor’s work and labour. ...

Last modified: 28th Oct 2021

R v Majewski

Case Summaries

Voluntary intoxication no defence to offences of “basic intent” such as assault. The appellant (M) was convicted following a brawl in a pub in which he assaulted the landlord and customers and the police officers who arrested him. ...

Last modified: 28th Oct 2021

Haseldine v C.A. Daw

Case Summaries

The case involved a hydraulic lift which was used to access the upper floor flats of an apartment block which were rented out to tenants. The landlord remained in occupation of the lift and had insurance against third party risks in the course of using the lift. ...

Last modified: 28th Oct 2021

Cambridge Water v Eastern Countries Leather Plc

Case Summaries

The Defendants were engaged in leather tanning at Sawston. During their work, as a result of the process of degreasing pelts, small quantities of a solvent known as Perchloroethene (PCE) was spilt on the floor of the building in which the Defendants carried out their activities. ...

Last modified: 28th Oct 2021

G Scammell and Nephew Ltd v Ouston

Case Summaries

Ouston agreed to purchase a new motor van from Scammell but stipulated that the purchase price should be set up on a hire-purchase basis over a period of two years, with some of the figure being part-paid by a van that Ouston already owned. ...

Last modified: 28th Oct 2021

Esso Petroleum v Commissioners of Customs and Excise

Case Summaries

Intention to create legal relations and consideration for a contract of sale in the formation of contracts. Esso, a petrol company, by which customers would receive one free World Cup coin for every four gallons of petrol purchased. ...

Last modified: 28th Oct 2021

R v Constanza – 1997

Case Summaries

Whether words alone could constitute an assault and the temporal element of fear of immediate violence. A man was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm of a female ex-colleague. ...

Last modified: 28th Oct 2021

Hartley v Ponsonby – (1857)

Case Summaries

When performance of an existing duty can be consideration.. The defendant, Ponsonby, was captain of a ship on which the plaintiff was a sailor. The sailors contracted to serve on board the ship for a maximum of three years to any ports required until her return to the UK. ...

Last modified: 28th Oct 2021

Jolley v Sutton London Borough Council

Case Summaries

The relevance of the extent and kind of remoteness of damage to the imposition of tortious liability. The defendant, Sutton London Borough Council, negligently left a dangerously derelict boat abandoned on a beach that they owned, albeit they had placed a warning sign on the boat advising that it not be touched. ...

Last modified: 28th Oct 2021

Re Ellenborough Park

Case Summaries

The necessary requirements for granting an easement. The titular park area, Ellenborough Park, was a park in Weston-super-Mare which was owned jointly by two tenants. ...

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

The Postal Acceptance Rule

Contract Law

The postal acceptance rule, created in 1818, arguably is not in line with laws on modern communication such as fax, email and e-commerce systems and subsequently attracts much criticism. ...

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

Collins v Godefroy – (1831)

Case Summaries

Performance of an existing duty is no consideration. Godefroy, the defendant, brought an action against an attorney for negligence and caused Collins, the plaintiff, to be subpoenaed to attend and give evidence. ...

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

Ward v Tesco – 1976

Case Summaries

The claimant was injured when they slipped on spilled yoghurt in the defendant’s store. The defendant adduced evidence that they regularly inspected and cleaned the floors and had policies requiring staff to deal with spillages as soon as they were detected. ...

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

Brinkibon v Stahag Stahl – 1983

Case Summaries

The complainants, Brinkibon Ltd, were a company that was based in London. They were buying steel from the defendants, Stahag Stahl, who were sellers based in Austria. ...

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

R v H – 2005

Case Summaries

The defendant propositioned the victim sexually and attempted to pull her towards him and place a hand over her mouth by grabbing at the pocket of her tracksuit. ...

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

The Case of Proclamations

Case Summaries

In what turned out to be a landmark case concerning the Royal Prerogative, Sir Edward Coke (the Chief Justice of Common Pleas) was asked to express his opinion as to whether the monarch could prohibit new buildings or the making of wheat. ...

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

The Supremacy of Parliament

Public Law

The parliament emancipation is based on the rule of law. [2] The supremacy of parliament is designated in two main parts which are the unlimited legislative sovereignty of parliament and second is the deficiency of any competing power in the state of accomplishing the overriding acts of assembly. ...

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

Butler Machine Tool v Ex-Cell-O Corporation – 1979

Case Summaries

The court allowed the buyer’s appeal. The court found that the buyer’s order was not an acceptance of the initial offer from the seller but a counter-offer which the sellers had accepted by returning the signature section of the buyer’s letter. ...

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

Lifting of the Corporate Veil Essay

Business Law

From the juristic point of view, a company is a legal person distinct from its members [Salomon v. Salomon and Co. Ltd. (1897) A.C 22]. This principle may be referred to as the ‘Veil of incorporation’. The courts in general consider themselves bound by this principle. ...

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

Foakes v Beer – 1883

Case Summaries

Whether part payment of a debt is consideration. The respondent, Beer, loaned the appellant, Dr Foakes, £2090 19s. When he was unable to repay this loan she received a judgment in her favour to recover this amount ...

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

Spartan Steel v Martin & Co

Case Summaries

The Court of Appeal held that even where a plaintiff is clearly owed a duty in respect of physical damage to property, any ‘pure’ economic loss suffered in addition to physical damage are unrecoverable as either too remote, or outside the scope of the duty of care. ...

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

Case Study on Application of The Sale of Goods Act 1930

Contract Law

Essential elements of a contract of sale and a case study looking at whether The Sale of Goods Act applies where the purchase goods were damaged. ...

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

Blackburn v Attorney General – 1971

Case Summaries

The claimant, Blackburn, asserted that the decision by Parliament to allow Britain to join the Economic Community and sign the Maastricht Treaty was illegal as it diminished their own sovereignty, and violated the theoretical conception of the ‘Queen in Parliament’ ...

Last modified: 25th Oct 2021