Results: 86

• National Dock Labour Board v John Bland & Co Ltd

  09 Jul 1969 [1970] 2 QB 333; [1969] 3 WLR 1063; [1969] 3 All ER 815; [1969] 2 Lloyd's Rep 316; 7 KIR 354, DC

  06 May 1970 [1970] 2 QB 333; [1970] 2 WLR 1251; [1970] 2 All ER 577; [1970] 1 Lloyd's Rep 509; 8 KIR 1001, CA

  25 May 1971 [1972] AC 222; [1971] 2 WLR 1491; [1971] 2 All ER 779; [1971] 2 Lloyd's Rep 20; 14 KIR 137, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 2.
  DOCK — Dock work — Dock labour scheme

  DOCK — Dock workers — “Decasualisation scheme”
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  DOCK — Dock work — Dock labour scheme — Preliminary stacking of imported timber in docks area — Subsequent first piling of timber at importers' yard “in vicinity of” docks but outside docks area — Whether “dock work” — Whether work on “cargo” — Cardiff and Penarth — Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act 1946, s 6 — Docks and Harbours Act 1966, s 1 (1) — Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) (Amendment) Order 1967, Sch 2 (Dock Workers Employment Scheme 1967), cl 10 (1)

  DOCK — Dock workers — “Decasualisation scheme” — Preliminary stacking of imported timber in docks area — Subsequent first piling of timber at importers' yard “in vicinity of” docks but outside docks area — Whether “dock work” — Whether work on “cargo” — Cardiff and Penarth — Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6, c. 22), s. 6 — Docks and Harbours Act 1966 (c. 28), s. 1 (1) — Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) (Amendment) Order 1967 (S.I. 1967 No. 1252), Sch. 2 (Dock Workers Employment Scheme 1967), cl. 10 (1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  3 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Alphacell Ltd v Woodward

  02 Apr 1971 [1972] 1 QB 127; [1971] 3 WLR 445; [1971] 2 All ER 910; 69 LGR 561, DC

  03 May 1972 [1972] AC 824; [1972] 2 WLR 1320; [1972] 2 All ER 475; 70 LGR 455, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 5 positive; 4 neutral. Subsequent citations: 39.
  JUSTICES — Case stated — Practice

  RIVER — Pollution — Causation
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  JUSTICES — Case stated — Practice — Findings of fact — Merely setting out evidence no substitute

  RIVER — Pollution — Causation — Effluent in settling tanks — Breakdown of pumping system — Overflow into river — No knowledge on part of owner of works that effluent overflowing — No negligence — Whether guilty of causing polluting matter to enter river — Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1951, s 2 (1)

  8 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Herrington v British Railways Board (British Railways Board v Herrington)

  02 Dec 1970 [1971] 2 QB 107; [1971] 2 WLR 477; [1971] 1 All ER 897, CA

  16 Feb 1972 [1972] AC 877; [1972] 2 WLR 537; [1972] 1 All ER 749, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 6 positive; 5 neutral. Subsequent citations: 114.
  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Occupier's liability

  OCCUPIERS' LIABILITY — Child, to — Trespasser
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  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Occupier's liability — Duty to trespasser

  OCCUPIERS' LIABILITY — Child, to — Trespasser — Railway — Fence in dilapidated condition to knowledge of stationmaster — Child injured trespassing on live rail — Occupier's duty of humanity to trespasser — Whether general duty of care

  11 Case(s) considered
• The Tojo Maru (No 2) (Tojo Maru (Owners) v NV Bureau Wijsmuller)

  13 Jan 1969 [1970] P 21; [1969] 2 WLR 594; [1969] 2 All ER 155; [1969] 1 Lloyd's Rep 133, PDA (Willmer LJ)

  09 Jul 1969 [1970] P 21; [1969] 3 WLR 902; [1969] 3 All ER 1179; [1969] 2 Lloyd's Rep 193, CA

  16 Mar 1971 [1972] AC 242; [1971] 2 WLR 970; [1971] 1 All ER 1110; [1971] 1 Lloyd's Rep 341, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 3 neutral; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 26.
  ADMIRALTY — Salvage — Award

  PRACTICE — Set-off — Counterclaim

  SHIPPING — Limitation of liability — Salvage
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  ADMIRALTY — Salvage — Award — Negligence of salvors — Damage to vessel exceeding salvors' proper remuneration — Whether owners of salved vessel entitled to counterclaim for damages — Whether salvors entitled to limit liability — Whether diver's negligence in water act of person “on board” the ship — Whether act in “management of the ship” — Whether set-off between claim for salvage and counterclaim for damages — Whether whole of salvage claim to be set off — Merchant Shipping Act 1894, s 503 (1) (as amended by the Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act, 1958, s 2 (1))

  ADMIRALTY — Salvage — Award — “No cure — No pay” principle — Basis of salvage reward — Salvors' liability for negligence

  PRACTICE — Set-off — Counterclaim — Salvage award — Counterclaim for damages — Whether operating by way of set-off — Whether set-off before right to limit arises

  SHIPPING — Limitation of liability — Salvage — Negligence of salvor's diver — Whether act of “person on board the ship” — Whether act in the “management of the ship” — Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s 503 (1) — Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act, 1958, s 2 (1)

  38 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered
• S v McC (orse S) and M (D S Intervener) (S (An Infant) v S, W v W)

  03 Feb 1970 [1970] 1 WLR 672; [1970] 1 All ER 1162, CA

  23 Jul 1970 [1972] AC 24; [1970] 3 WLR 366; [1970] 3 All ER 107, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 3 neutral; most recently considered: 2024. Subsequent citations: 64.
  EVIDENCE — Blood test — Paternity
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  EVIDENCE — Blood test — Paternity — Whether serological examination of child should be ordered — Interest of infant — Not sole consideration when court exercising parens patriae jurisdiction — Interests of justice requiring all available evidence on paternity issue — Whether truth should prevail over presumption of legitimacy

  5 Case(s) considered
• Penang, Government of the State of v Beng Hong Oon

  05 Oct 1971 [1972] AC 425; [1972] 2 WLR 1; [1971] 3 All ER 1163, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 6.
  LAND — Malaysia — Land
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  LAND — Malaysia — Land — Title to land — “Sea beach” as descriptive of boundary — Formation of alluvium by recession of sea — Ownership of alluvium so formed

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Overseas Enactment considered
• Broome v Cassell & Co Ltd (Cassell & Co Ltd v Broome)

  [1971] 1 All ER 262

  04 Mar 1971 [1971] 2 QB 354; [1971] 2 WLR 853; [1971] 2 All ER 187, CA

  23 Feb 1972 [1972] AC 1027; [1972] 2 WLR 645; [1972] 1 All ER 801, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 7 positive; 9 neutral. Subsequent citations: 221.
  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — House of Lords decision — Per incuriam?

  LIBEL AND SLANDER — Damages for libel — Exemplary damages

  LIBEL AND SLANDER — Pleadings — Damage
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  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — House of Lords decision — Per incuriam? — 1964 decision introducing restrictions on awards of exemplary damages in all actions in tort — Previous House of Lords decisions approving awards of exemplary damages on broad lines in libel actions — Whether Court of Appeal entitled to treat House of Lords decision as reached per incuriam as being inconsistent with previous decision

  LIBEL AND SLANDER — Damages for libel — Exemplary damages — Book written and published in face of threats of libel actions — Documents disclosed by author and publishers covering period of preparation and publication of book — Claim for exemplary damages — Award by jury of exemplary damages exceeding amount of compensatory damages — Whether jury entitled to award exemplary damages on broad view of whole of defendants' conduct or within narrow limits laid down by House of Lords in 1964 decision — Whether evidence of conduct showing defendants knowingly or recklessly publishing libels on calculation that profits for themselves likely to exceed compensation payable to plaintiff

  LIBEL AND SLANDER — Pleadings — Damage — Exemplary damages — No need to plead

  12 Case(s) considered

• Hinchcliffe v Crabtree (Crabtree v Hinchcliffe)

  05 Dec 1969 [1970] Ch 626; [1970] 2 WLR 690; [1970] 1 All ER 1239; (1969) 47 TC 419, Ch D (Pennycuick J)

  13 Nov 1970 [1972] AC 707; [1971] 2 WLR 914; [1971] 2 All ER 104; (1969) 47 TC 419, CA

  27 Oct 1971 [1972] AC 707; [1971] 3 WLR 821; [1971] 3 All ER 967; (1969) 47 TC 419, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 10.
  REVENUE — Capital Gains Tax — Valuation of quoted securities
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  REVENUE — Capital Gains Tax — Valuation of quoted securities — Price which shares might reasonably be expected to fetch on open market — Mid-market price of shares quoted on London Stock Exchange — Take-over negotiations not published or communicated to Stock Exchange — Whether “special circumstances” — Whether prices quoted on London Stock Exchange proper measure of market value — Finance Act, 1965, s 44 (1) (2) (3)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Albert v Motor Insurers’ Bureau

  20 Jun 1969 [1969] 2 Lloyd's Rep 243, QBD (Willis J)

  27 Apr 1970 [1970] 1 Lloyd's Rep 506; [1970] RTR 315, CA

  07 Jul 1971 [1972] AC 301; [1971] 3 WLR 291; [1971] 2 All ER 1345; [1971] 2 Lloyd's Rep 229; [1972] RTR 230, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 2.
  ROAD TRAFFIC — Third party insurance — “Hire or reward”

  ROAD TRAFFIC — Third party insurance — Motor Insurers' Bureau
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  ROAD TRAFFIC — Third party insurance — “Hire or reward” — Driver carrying fellow workers to and from work — Regular and understood arrangement that driver rewarded in money or kind — Driver liable for death of passenger — Judgment against driver unsatisfied — Whether required to insure against liability to passengers — Whether passenger being carried in “vehicle in which passengers are carried for hire or reward” — Road Traffic Act 1960, s 203 (4)

  ROAD TRAFFIC — Third party insurance — Motor Insurers' Bureau — Agreement with Minister — Action on agreement by third party — Whether permissible

  13 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Anderson v The Queen

  05 Oct 1971 [1972] AC 100; [1971] 3 WLR 718; [1971] 3 All ER 768, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 15.
  CRIME — Jamaica — Crime
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  CRIME — Jamaica — Crime — Homicide — Summing up — Misdirection in summing up — Proviso as to appeal where no substantial miscarriage of justice — Whether misdirection such that proviso not applicable — Judicature (Appellate Jurisdiction) Law, s 13 (1)

  1 Case considered

  1 Overseas Enactment considered