Case Summaries
The case summaries below were written by our expert writers, as a learning aid to help you with your studies. If you are looking for help with your case summary then we offer a comprehensive writing service provided by fully qualified academics in your field of study.
Case Summaries & Related Services
Osman v UK
Example case summary. Last modified: 30th Sep 2021
Case Summary of Osman v United Kingdom (UK) Case No: 87/1997/871/1083. Mrs Mulkiye Osman was born in Cyprus in 1948 and her son, Ahmet Osman, was born in England in 1972....
Poussard v Spiers
Example case summary. Last modified: 30th Sep 2021
Breach of condition of a contract. The Claimant (Poussard) was an opera singer. She was contracted by the defendant to perform in that capacity for a duration of three months. The issue in this case was whether failing to turn up to the first day of performance amounted to a breach of a condition of the contract....
R v Roberts - 1971
Example case summary. Last modified: 30th Sep 2021
After a party the male defendant R, gave the female victim a lift in his automobile. The victim and the defendant had not met before. The defendant began making sexual advances towards the victim which were rejected before attempting to pull off her coat. ...
R v Jordan - 1956
Example case summary. Last modified: 30th Sep 2021
Medical evidence was to the cause of death – new evidence regarding the cause of death. Jordan, who worked for the United States Air Force, stabbed a man as the result of a disturbance. The victim died in hospital eight days later....
Sturges v Bridgman - 1879
Example case summary. Last modified: 30th Sep 2021
The claimant, a doctor, moved house and on the premises, he bought and built a shed in his garden to carry out his private practice within. His shed was on the boundary of the property and happened to be next door to a confectioner....
Phillips v Brooks Ltd - 1919
Example case summary. Last modified: 30th Sep 2021
Phillips was a jeweller. The fraudster purchased a ring from the jeweller with a cheque and signed his name “Sir George Bullough” and provided this person’s address....
Re Selectmove - 1995
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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. ...
Household Fire Insurance v Grant - 1879
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
R v Church - 1966
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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. ...
Haynes v Harwood
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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. ...
Robinson v Harman - 1848
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
Curtis v Chemical Cleaning & Dyeing Co - 1951
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
Bird v Jones - 1845
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
Miller v Jackson - 1977
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
Henthorn v Fraser - 1892
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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. ...
Tuberville v Savage - 1669
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
Jones v Lipman [1962]
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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. ...
McLoughlin v O'Brian
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
Gillick v West Norfolk AHA
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
Wheeldon v Burrows (1879)
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
Blackpool and Fylde Aero Club v Blackpool BC
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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. ...
Oscar Chess v Williams - 1957
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
Scott v Shepherd - 1773 (Famous Squib)
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
Parker v South Eastern Railway
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
Tip: If you can't find what you are looking for, try shortening your search phrase. E.g. "Salomon"