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Smith v Superintendent of Woking Police
Example case summary. Last modified: 5th Oct 2021
The defendant entered the grounds of a private enclosed garden at 11 pm. He stood and looked through the window of Miss M’s bedroom. Miss M saw the defendant staring at her through the window while she was in her night closes, causing her to jump and scream in fright....
Smith v. Stone - 1647 | Case Brief
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Smith (S) brought an action of trespass against Stone (D) after D was carried onto S’s land by force, and violence of others, and was not there......
Snelling v Snelling
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The plaintiff and his brothers, the second and third defendants were directors of a family business and company, the first defendant....
Soering v UK
Example case summary. Last modified: 28th Oct 2021
Soering v United Kingdom (1989) concerns Articles 3, 6 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) 1950 and the potential extradition to the USA by the UK of a West German national to face trial in Virginia, USA on a murder charge....
South Wales Miners Federation v Glamorgan Coal Company
Example case summary. Last modified: 22nd Oct 2021
The federation was a trade union, formed to consider trade and wages, to protect the workmen and regulate relations. The wages were paid on a sliding scale agreement in accordance with the rising and falling price of coal....
Southern Water Authority v Pegrum
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
The defendants were pig farmers. Waste and effluence from the pigs was stored first in tanks which drained into a lagoon which had been constructed......
Southwark LBC v Mills
Example case summary. Last modified: 15th Jun 2019
Landlord and tenant; whether poor soundproofing amounted to breach of covenant for quiet enjoyment...
Southwark London Borough Council v Williams
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The defendants were in need of housing, both having been forced to leave their current lodgings. The defendants sought the assistance of a squatters......
Sovmots Investments Ltd v SSE [1979]
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A 150 year lease was granted to S Ltd (appellant) who built an office complex. 36 residential maisonettes......
Spartan Steel v Martin & Co
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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....
Speed v Thomas Swift & Co Ltd - 1943
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Mr Speed was a dock labourer employed by the defendant stevedores working on the loading of a ship from an adjacent barge....
Speight v Gosnay
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The defendant uttered certain words creating a false (unfavourable) impression regarding the claimant’s virginity when the claimant’s mother was present....
Spicer v Smee
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The claimant’s property was adjacent to the defendant’s land. As a result of some faulty wiring, a fire broke out on the defendant’s property......
Spring v Guardian Assurance plc - 1994
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The plaintiff was dismissed from his job as a company sales representative for the first defendant. Upon seeking employment with another company......
Spurling v Bradshaw - 1956
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Bradshaw alleged Spurling were negligent, and in breach of an implied term to take reasonable care of the barrels because they had left them......
St Albans City and District Council v International Computers
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The appellant was the defendant company which had supplied computer software to the respondent, and for which the respondent had been awarded £1.3 million....
St Helen's Smelting Co v Tipping - 1865
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The claimant was the owner of a large country house with over a thousand acres of land. This land was close to a copper smelting factory which had long been in operation. The smelting factory discharged noxious gases as a result of its operation, which were considered to be a normal part of the smelting operation....
St John Shipping v Joseph Rank Ltd - Summary
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The plaintiff, St John Shipping Corporation, owned a ship that was to sail from a port in the United States to the United Kingdom....
St Martins Property Corporation v Sir Robert McAlpine
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St Martins, the first plaintiff, began working on a development which included shops, offices and flats. A 150-year leasehold was granted......
St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich v Clark (No. 2)
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
A property consisting of a former rectory and adjacent land was surrounded by a church and a churchyard....
Stabilad Ltd v Stephens & Carter Ltd
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S and SC began negotiations for the sale of rights in a device which stabilised ladders. SC sent S a document which provided......
Standard Chartered Bank Ltd v Walker
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A company issued to P, a bank, a debenture giving P a charge over the company's assets in respect of any sums...
Stansbie v Troman - 1948
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Stansbie was decorating at Troman’s home. He was alone at the property and left the house to purchase some wallpaper. He left the door unlocked and......
Staples v West Dorset
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The defendant occupied the Cobb at Lyme Regis which was a wall from which the public could gain access to the promenade....
State Bank of India v Sood
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In this case, the first and second defendants were the legally registered proprietors of the family home, which the...
State Bank of India v Sood - Case Summary
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In this case, the first and second defendants were the legally registered proprietors of the family home, which the third to seventh......
Sterling Hydraulics v Dichtomatik
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DL contended the acknowledgement of order documentation amounted to a counter-offer incorporating their own terms into the contract....
Stevenson Jacques & Co v Mclean
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The defendant, Mclean, offered to sell iron to the complainant, Stevenson Jaques & Co. This was for the price of 40s and the offer would remain open until Monday....
Stevenson, Jordan Harrison Ltd v MacDonald & Evans
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Definition of an employee under a ‘contract of service’ for the purposes of determining the copyright of a work. An engineer wrote a book that used knowledge that he acquired whilst he was working for a firm in different capacities....
Stewart Gill Ltd v Horatio Myer - Case Summary
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The Claimant and Defendant had a contract under which the Defendant purchased an overhead conveyor system from the Claimant....
Stilk v Myrick 1809 - Case Summary
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Performance of an existing duty is no consideration. Stilk v Myrick is a case that was decided over 200 years ago but nonetheless the principle that it developed remains a core feature of the law of contract and more particularly that of consideration....
Stilwell v Blackman
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
A conveyance between the predecessors of the parties contained a restrictive covenant requiring that the purchaser......
Stockdale v Hansard
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
Privilege of a single House of Parliament and court's authority to review privilege...
Stockholm Finance Ltd v Garden Holdings Inc
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Whether owning a property that is furnished but not inhabited can still be actual occupation....
Stocznia Gdanska SA v Latvian Shipping Co
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Lacto (L) was a shipowning company belonging to the Latvian state. Lacto entered into agreement with a Polish......
Storer v MCC 1974
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In this case the defendant had made clear by their conduct and language that they intended to be bound upon the acceptance of the offer despite the fact that some terms remained to be agreed....
Storey v Ashton - Case Summary
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The defendant in this case, was a wine merchant who, in the course of employment, sent his clerk and his car man off with a horse and cart to make a......
Stovin v Wise - 1996
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The availability of a private law claim in negligence in respect of a failure of a local authority to comply with a public law discretion. A local authority was aware that a bank of land was obstructing the view at a junction where three accidents had occurred in the previous twelve years....
Strand Securities v Caswell
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The tenant of a property granted an underlease to the respondent. The subtenant applied to have the underlease registered......
Street v Mountford
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Whether exclusive possession creates a tenancy. The respondent, Street, granted a licence to the appellant, Mountford, to occupy two rooms at a weekly rent subject to 14 days’ notice of termination....
Strickland v Turner - 1852
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In this case, Strickland, the complainant, entered into a contract for annuity and life assurance on the life of Turner, with an insurance company....
Strict Liability Case Summaries
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Cases on Strict Liability. The defendant ran off with an under-age girl. He was charged with an offence of taking a girl under the age of 16 out of the possession of her parents contrary to s55 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (now s20 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956)....
Sturges v Bridgman - 1879
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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....
Sudbrook Trading Estate Ltd v Eggleton - 1983
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Four separate leases were made in relation to adjacent industrial premises. Each lease expired on 24 December 1997....
Summit Investment v BSC - 1987
Example case summary. Last modified: 15th Aug 2019
The defendants chartered a ship from the plaintiff on a New York Produce Exchange form of time charter. Clause 20 of this charter provided......
Sumpter v Hedges - 1898
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A builder contracted to build two houses and stables for the lump sum of £565. The builder only completed part of the work, after which he abandoned the contract. The completed works amounted to a value of £333....
Sutton v Mishcon de Reya
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The plaintiff, Sutton, was a male prostitute who entered into a sado-masochistic relationship with Staal, a wealthy Swedish businessman....
Swain v Natui Ram Puri
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The defendant’s owned a defunct factory, around which they had erected a seven foot-fence topped with barbed wire. There was however a small section of the fence at which the barbed wire was missing....
Swedish Central Railway Co Ltd v Thompson [1925]
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A Case Summary of Swedish Central Railway Co Ltd v Thompson [1925] AC 495 (HL)....
Sweet v Parsley - 1970
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The appellant, Stephanie Sweet (S), was a sub-tenant of a farmhouse, where cannabis resin was found. S no longer lived in the house and had let out several rooms to tenants. She did retain a room but only returned occasionally to collect letters and rent....
Tabcorp v Bowen Investments
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Bowen Investments Pty Ltd (BIPL) constructed a new office building and installed an expensive high quality foyer. A 10-year lease of the whole building......
Tanner v Tanner [1975]
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Whether a contractual licence will be implied in respect of allowing a woman to remain in occupation of a property whilst her children are of school age....
Target Home Loans Ltd v Clothier - 1994
Example case summary. Last modified: 24th Jun 2019
The respondents took a mortgage on their home. The appellant lender sought an order for possession after repayments were not made....
Tarleton v McGawley
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Tarleton was a ship trading off the coast of West Africa with Cameroon locals. The Bannister ship, directed by M’Gawley, shot a cannon from the water......
Taylor v Bowers - 1876
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The defendant was a creditor of the plaintiff. The plaintiff made over all his stock-in-trade to a third party on the basis of fictitious bills of......
Taylor v Caldwell - 1863
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Case Summary of Taylor V Caldwell [1863] 3 B&S 826. Contract frustrations and implied terms. The case of Taylor v Caldwell[1] is a fundamental case in the area of frustration with regards to contract law....
Taylor v Hamer - 2002
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The appellant bought a property from the respondent. When inspecting the property, the appellant noticed that part of the land was paved......
Taylor v Laird
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The claimant was employed as the captain of a ship which was owned by the defendants. Whilst in a foreign port during the course of the voyage, he voluntarily gave up his position as captain, and worked as an ordinary crew member during his passage back to Britain....
Taylors Fashions Ltd v Liverpool Victoria Trustees Ltd
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
The claimants were tenants of the defendant, and purported to have an option to renew the lease....
Tenax Steamship Co v Owners of the Motor Vessel Brimnes
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It was held that the withdrawal was effective when it Telex message was received, not when the message was read....
Terms of The Contract Case Summaries
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Terms of Contract Cases. The plaintiffs, who had shipped goods for many years with the defendants, who were forwarding agents, agreed to a changeover in the method of shipment to enable goods to be carried in containers stored below deck on the ship....
The Alaskan Trader (No.2)
Example case summary. Last modified: 18th Jun 2019
The owners of a vessel chartered for a two-year time charter with the defendant. One year into this, the vessel incurred a serious engine issue which......
The Calgarth [1927]
Example case summary. Last modified: 22nd Oct 2021
The Calgarth was the stern tug of a large steam ship, the Otarama, which was assisting the larger vessel in entering onto the Manchester Ship Canal. Whilst manoeuvring, the Calgarth ran aground on the bank of the entrance channel to the canal which was constructed and maintained by the Canal Company. ...
The Case of Proclamations
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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....
The Eugenia, Ocean Tramp Tankers Corporation v V/O Sovfracht
Example case summary. Last modified: 23rd Jun 2021
The vessel Eugenia was let to the charterers for “a trip out to India via Black Sea” from the time Eugenia was delivered to them in Genoa. Under Clause 21 in the contract between the two parties, the vessel was not to be brought within any zone which is dangerous as a result of any actual or threatened act of war...
The Hannah Blumenthal 1983 - Summary
Example case summary. Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
A contract was made for the sale of a ship. A dispute arose between the parties regarding alleged defects. The dispute was referred to......
The Hansa Nord - 1976
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
Pursuant to a contract of sale, a German company agreed to sell a Dutch company 12,000 tons of citrus pulp pellets for use in cattle feed....
The Happy Day [2002] EWCA Civ 1068
Example case summary. Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
A dispute arose in relation to a claim of demurrage (the charge payable to the owner for failure to discharge the ship within the agreed time)....
The Mahkutai - 1996
Example case summary. Last modified: 25th Jun 2019
A cargo owner contracted with a charterer to organize for the transportation and delivery of their cargo with a bills of lading which contained a......
The Moorcock (1889)
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Ship damaged at defendant’s jetty; whether implied term to take reasonable care. Ship-owners contracted with the defendant wharfingers to discharge a ship at their jetty. The jetty extended into the River Thames where the ship must necessarily ground at low water. ...
The Oropesa - 1943 - Case Summary
Example case summary. Last modified: 13th Jul 2019
There were storms out at sea and a collision happened between two ships, the Oropesa and the Manchester Regiment. In the incident, the Manchester......
The Post Chaser - 1982
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The sellers agreed to sell a quantity of palm-oil to the buyers who had contracted to sell this onto sub-buyers. A clause in the contract required the......
The Sea Angel 2007
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The Sea Angel was a vessel used by Tsavliris to assist in the salvage operations concerning the Tasman Spirit......
The Six Carpenters Case
Example case summary. Last modified: 4th Oct 2021
Trespass – Stolen goods. Six carpenters (S) were served with wine and bread at a tavern which they paid for. S requested more wine and bread afterwards, of which they were served, by this time they refused to pay....
The Super Servant Two [1990]
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
The defendant agreed to transport the plaintiff's drilling rig from Japan to Rotterdam, using a transportation unit......
Theaker v Richardson
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The defendant (R) wrote to the plaintiff (T) accusing her of, amongst other things, being “a very dirty whore.” T’s husband opened the letter thinking......
Theft Case Summaries
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Summaries of theft cases covering appropriation, property, belonging to another, the mens rea of theft, intention to permanently deprive, and intention to use or dispose of goods....
Theft of property and fraud by misrepresentation
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Theft of property and fraud by misrepresentation. According to the facts of the case study, it is apparent that the legal issues concerning Kezia's case are in relation to the Theft Act and Fraud, Kazia has been charged with Theft of the death certificate and with Fraud by misrepresentation....
Thoburn v Sunderland City Council
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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – DELEGATED LEGISLATION – DIRECTIVES – EC LEGISLATION – WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. The Units of Measurement Regulations 1994, which were brought into force pursuant to the exercise of powers conferred by section 2(2) and (4) of the European Communities Act 1972....
Thomas v National Union of Mineworkers
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During a set of strikes organised by the National Union of Miners (NUM – the Defendant), the Claimant, who was a miner, wanted to continue working in......
Thomas v Sorrell [1673]
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The claimant in this matter was the Company of Vintners which, under the Act which created it, was entitled......
Thomas v Thomas - 1842
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Consideration need only be legally not economically adequate.. A valid contract must be supported by consideration. That is, the promisee must promise to do something in return for the promise of the other party....
Thomas Witter Ltd v TBP Industries Ltd
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The defendant was a conglomerate organisation that negotiated to sell a carpet company to the plaintiff. During the negotiation of the sale of the company......
Thompson v Bridges - 1925
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The appellant was a high school teacher and principal of his school. In 1922, a bitter campaign was fought for trusteeships......
Thompson v Foy
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
Thompson permitted her daughter, Foy, to build an extension to Thompson’s home. According to their informal agreement, the......
Thompson v Lohan - Case Summary
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The defendant was a company which hired plant and machinery with operators if necessary. The claimant hired some machinery with two of......
Thompson v London, Midland and Scottish Railway
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Thompson was unable to read and she travelled on a train with her daughter and niece. On the back of her ticket it was printed that the tickets were issued subject to the terms outlined in the company’s time tables. ...
Thompson v Metropolitan Police Commissioner
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The case concerned two conjoined actions by claimants who had been manhandled, assaulted, and abused by police officers employed......
Thorner v Major 2009
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The claimant had worked on the defendant estate’s farm for over a decade without pay, believing that he would inherit the land when the defendant died. While the defendant once gave the claimant a bonus stating that it was for his ‘death duties’, he never explicitly told the claimant he would inherit...
Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking - 1971
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Automatic ticket machine at car park; incorporation of terms displayed inside. Thornton drove his car to a car park. Outside the car park, the prices were displayed and a notice stated cars were parked at their owner’s risk...
Thorpe v Brumfitt (1873)
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P was the owner of an inn, the yard of which was approached by a passage over the adjoining property, belonging to M....
Tinn v Hoffman and Co 1873
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It was held in this case that there was no contract between Mr Tinn and Mr Hoffman for the iron. The cross offers were made simultaneously and without knowledge of one another; this was not a contract that would bind the parties for the iron....
Tinsley v Milligan [1994]
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
Resulting trusts and illegality; whether equitable interest may be claimed despite conduct....
Titchener v British Railways Board
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The appellant was struck by a train and was very seriously injured. This had taken place whilst the appellant was crossing a railway......
Tito v Waddell (No 2) [1977] Ch 106
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Banaba island was a British settlement and the land was owned by individual Banabans. The Crown granted a license to a British company to mine the......
Tolley v Fry
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The defendants were owners a chocolate manufacturing company. They advertised their products with a caricature of the claimant......
Tomlin v Standard Telephones and Cables
Example case summary. Last modified: 24th Jun 2019
A man claimed against his employers for damages for personal injuries sustained during the course of his employment. The man’s solicitor and......
Tomlinson v Congleton BC and another
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The obligation placed on occupiers with regards to injuries caused on their property...
Tomlinson v Congleton Borough Council
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Congleton Borough Council had attempted to turn a disused quarry into a beauty spot and country park by turning the quarry into an artificial lake. The council prohibited swimming, recognising the lake to be dangerous for swimmers and had prominent signs prohibiting swimming, as well as park rangers who sought to prevent swimming. T...
Toomes v Conset
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The property in question was the subject of a lease for sixty years. This lease had been granted as a collateral security against the sum of......
Torquay Hotel Ltd v Cousins
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Cousins was part of a trade union. Members of the trade union called a strike at the Torbay Hotel and the Imperial hotel......
Torreggiani and Others v Italy 43517/09 (ECHR, 08 January 2013)
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The case of Torreggiani and Others v Italy deals primarily with the Article 3 prohibition on torture or inhuman and degrading treatment...
Tower Hamlets LBC v Bromley LBC
Example case summary. Last modified: 15th Jun 2019
A Henry Moore sculpture was purchased by London County Council in 1962. That organisation was subsequently abolished and replaced by the......
Transco Plc v United Utilities Water Plc
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United Utilities Water (UUW) operated water networks in the UK. UUW were required to shut off the water while undertaking......
Transco v Stockport MBC
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The Claimant was the owner of a gas pipe which passed under the surface of an old railway between Stockport and Denton. The Defendant was the local......
Tremain v Pike - 1969
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The claimant, Tremain, was a farmer employed by the defendant, Pike, to work as a herdsman on the defendant’s farm. In the course of his......
Trendtex Trading Corporation v Credit Suisse
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Trendtex had a claim in England against the Central Bank of Nigeria [‘CBN’] for damages amounting to approximately USD 14 million....
Trendtex Trading v Bank of Nigeria
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The Central Bank of issued an irrevocable letter of credit to pay for quantities of cement ordered by the Nigerian Ministry of Defence....
Trespass To The Person Cases
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Trespass To The Person. In an action for damages for assault and false imprisonment it appeared that the plaintiff had contracted with the defendants to enter their wharf and stay there till the boat should start and then be taken by the boat to the other side....
Tribe v Tribe - 1996
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The plaintiff operated a company which sold clothing from a number of shops. The landlord served schedules of dilapidations in relation to two......
Trident Insurance v McNiece
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McNiece was the main construction contractor for work being carried out at a limestone plant named Blue Circle. Blue Circle entered into a......
Troughton v MPC
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
The defendant got into a taxi whilst heavily intoxicated and asked to be driven to Highbury but did not specify his address. The driver stopped to obtain clearer directions from the defendant...
Trustees of Ampleforth Abbey v Turner & Townsend
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The claimant employed the defendant to project manage the building of three construction projects on its property. The works were carried out......
Tsakiroglou & Co Ltd v Noblee Thorl
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The appellants agreed to sell to the respondents Sudanese groundnuts for shipment to Hamburg during November/December 1956. The agreement included a CIF (cost, insurance and freight) term (requiring the seller to arrange the carriage of the goods by sea to Hamburg....
TSB Bank v Camfield - 1995
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C stood as security for a loan from a bank for her husband’s business. C’s husband had made an innocent misrepresentation that the liability of the......
Tuberville v Savage - 1669
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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....
Tulk v Moxhay - Case Brief
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Established that there are occasions in which equitable covenants can bind future purchasers of property and ‘run with the land’. The claimant, Tulk, owned several properties in Leicester Square, London, and sold one such property to another....
Tulk v Moxhay 1848
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The plaintiff used to be the owner of a vacant piece of ground in Leicester Square, as well as several of the houses......
Turkey v Awadh - 2005
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A Saudi Arabian couple purchased a home in London with the help of a mortgage. They rented the house to the wife’s father who lived there with his wife....
Tweddle v Atkinson - 1861
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The son and daughter of the parties involved in this dispute were getting married. As such, the father of the groom and father of the bride entered into an agreement that they would both pay sums of money to the couple....
Ultramares Corporation v Touche 174 N.E. 441 (1932)
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Case Summary of Ultramares Corporation v Touche 174 N.E. 441 (1932). Tort law in the United States covering indeterminate liability and privity....
Undue Influence Case Summaries
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Cases on Undue Influence. Class 1 - Actual undue influence. Class 2 (2A and 2B)- Presumed undue influence....
Union Lighterage Co. v London Graving Dock Co
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A dock and a wharf, divided by a fence, belonged to the same owner in 1860. In the same year, in order to secure the side......
United Bank of Kuwait plc v Sahib
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The defendant, Sahib, had a half share in a house. He held the title deeds to the house to the order of the other......
USA v Julian Assange
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The grand jury returned an indictment, holding that Assange knowingly accessed a U.S. Government computer system illegally, exceeding his authorised access to obtain classified information regarding U.S. national security...
Vacwell Engineering Co v BDH Chemicals
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The defendant, BDH Chemicals Ltd, supplied the complainant with chemicals contained in glass ampoules. This had a label stating ‘harmful vapour’ on it....
Van Gend en Loos Case Summary
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Established that EEC’s treaties were legitimate grounds for the recognition of legal rights and thus famously recognised the principle of direct effect. The claimants, van Gend en Loos, imported chemicals from Western Germany to the Netherlands where they were asked to pay import taxes....
Van Haarlam v Kasner Charitable Trust (1992)
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The plaintiff held a 99-year lease over a flat which had a subsequent covenant, preventing the flat from being used......
Varga And Others v Hungary 2015
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Varga And Others v Hungary 2015 ECHR 14097/12, 45135/12, 73712/12, 34001/13, 44055/13, and 64586/13...
Vaughan v Vaughan - 1953
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A case summary for LawTeacher.net about Vaughan v Vaughan [1953] 1 QB 762, where a wife was granted a revocable licence by the promise to remain in the matrimonial home after divorce....
Vellino v Chief Constable of Manchester
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The plaintiff was well known to the local police, which were often called to arrest him at his second-floor flat. He sometimes evaded the......
Venables and Thompson v News Group Newspapers
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A case summary for LawTeacher.net about Venables and Thompson v News Group Newspapers, regarding a perpetual injunction granted to protect the identities of two notorious murderers. ...
Veral v Great Yarmouth BC
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Great Yarmouth Council, which was under a Conservative majority granted a licence to the National Front......
Vernon v Bosley - (No. 1)
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
The plaintiff suffered distress after witnessing fire fighters attempt to rescue her children from the wreckage of a car following a road traffic accident....
Vicarious Liability Cases | Negligence
Example case summary. Last modified: 4th Nov 2022
Examples of vicarious liability case around the subject of matrimonial issues between husband and wife....
Victoria Laundry v Newman Industries
Example case summary. Last modified: 28th Sep 2021
Delayed delivery of boiler to laundry company; whether lost profits recoverable. Victoria Laundry Ltd (VLL) ordered a large boiler from Newman Industries Ltd (NIL) in contemplation of some lucrative dyeing contracts....
Vitol SA v Norelf Ltd, The Santa Clare
Example case summary. Last modified: 15th Jun 2019
The defendant buyers - Vitol (V), entered into a contract with the plaintiff sellers - Norelf......
Wainwright v Home Office
Example case summary. Last modified: 22nd Dec 2020
The claimants were strip-searched for drugs on a prison visit. At trial, the judge found trespass against the person in relation......
Wakefield v Duckworth
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
Mr Duckworth requested as low a price as possible for the photographs because his client was not a wealthy man. Mr Wakefield sought to recover the......
Walker v Northumberland County Council
Example case summary. Last modified: 28th Oct 2021
Employer’s duty to provide safe system of work; whether duty extends to risk of psychiatric illness. Mr Walker was a social worker employed by the defendant who had a heavy, emotionally demanding caseload and suffered a mental breakdown in 1986....
Wall v Collins - 2007
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
The appellant asserted that he had a right of way over a track which passed over one part of his property, as well as into......
Wall v Collins 2007
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
Doctrine of merger of leasehold and freehold interests, extinguishment of easements...
Waller v Waller [1967]
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
A married couple made joint contributions to the purchase of a property intended to serve as the matrimonial home......
Walsh v Lonsdale (1882)
Example case summary. Last modified: 28th Sep 2021
Whether equitable leases must comply with common law requirements. The defendant, Lonsdale, agreed to grant the claimant, Walsh, the lease of a mill for seven years, the rent to be paid quarterly in arrears with a year’s rent payable in advance if demanded....
Walters v North Glamorgan
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
N, an NHS trust, appealed against a decision granting damages to the claimant (C) for a psychiatric condition C suffered as a result of events......
Wandsworth LBC v A 2000
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
A was the parent of a child who attended a school run by the local authority. The parent was accused of verbally......
Ward v London County Council
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
A fire engine driver injured the claimant by running a red light while driving to deal with an emergency. The claimant sued the driver’s employers....
Ward v Tesco - 1976
Example case summary. Last modified: 26th Oct 2021
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....
Warner Bros v Nelson - Case Brief
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
The defendant was a film artist, otherwise known as Bette Davis, who had entered into a contract with the plaintiffs, Warner Bros. Pictures......
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society Lawsuit
Example case summary. Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
He brought an action for slander regarding words purported to have been spoken at a meeting where he had sought a review of his expulsion....
Watford Electronics v Sanderson - Summary
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Dec 2020
The claimant was a family owned business involved in the sale, largely through mail order, of computer equipment. When the claimant company moved......
Watt v Hertfordshire County Council - 1954
Example case summary. Last modified: 5th Oct 2021
The claimant worked for the fire department, and was answering a call involving a woman trapped under a lorry near the fire station. This involved moving a heavy piece of equipment to the scene to lift the lorry. ...
Watts and Ready v Story
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
The claimant's grandmother induced him to move from Leeds to Nottinghamshire so that he would look after her......
Watts v Morrow - 1991
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
Watts instructed Morrow to provide a full structural survey on a house he wished to purchase. The report found the property to be sound......
Wayling v Jones [1995]
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
The claimant, Wayling was in a homosexual relationship with his partner, Jones. For several years he worked at......
Webb v Paternosters Case
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
Personal rights are generally not enforceable against third-parties, in contrast to proprietary rights, which can be enforced against......
Weeks v Tybald - 1605
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
The case derives from 1605. The defendant who was the father of a woman to whom the plaintiff sought to “woo” with the intention of marriage....
Welton v North Cornwall District Council
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
The plaintiff was the owner of a guest house in North Cornwall. An environmental health officer employed by the defendant council to carry out......
Wenkheim v Ardnt
Example case summary. Last modified: 22nd Dec 2020
This case was heard and decided in New Zealand. The facts of the case were that the plaintiff offered to marry the defendant. The defendant......
Wessex Reserve Forest v White
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
W occupied premises under a lease which provided that, upon termination, W was obliged to restore the land to its pre-tenancy condition....
Westminster City Council v Clarke
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
Local authority homeless hostel; whether occupation agreement was a lease or a license...
WG Clark (Properties) Ltd v Dupre Properties Ltd
Example case summary. Last modified: 15th Jun 2019
The basement flat of an apartment was leased to a tenant. A year later, the parties agreed that the tenant could extend......
Wheat v E Lacon & Co Ltd
Example case summary. Last modified: 30th Sep 2021
The defendants, in this case, were brewers who owned a public house, which they entrusted to a licensee to manage. This individual was employed by the defendants under a service agreement to this effect....
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....
Wheeler v Copas - 1981
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
The plaintiff was a partner in a bricklaying company. The defendant was a farmer who wanted a house built on his farm and negotiated for this directly with the plaintiff....
Wheeler v JJ Saunders Ltd
Example case summary. Last modified: 15th Jun 2019
Wheeler bought properties adjacent to a farm. There were two access points to the properties, one via an access strip......
Wheeler v New Merton Board Mills
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
An eighteen-year-old workman was working at a machine for cutting cardboard with revolving sharp knives and, whilst collecting the shavings......
Wheeler v Office of the Prime Minister - 2008
Example case summary. Last modified: 18th Mar 2021
The claimant (W) applied for permission to seek judicial review of the decision of the Office of the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign......
Whiston v Secretary of State For Justice
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
In Whiston v Secretary of State for Justice [2014] UKSC 39, the Supreme Court considered the issue of whether a person released from prison on a home detention curfew who is subsequently recalled to prison under s. 255 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, has rights pursuant to article 5(4) of the European Convention on Human Rights....
White & Carter v McGregor - 1962
Example case summary. Last modified: 4th Oct 2021
White & Carter, the appellants, were advertising contractors that agreed with a representative of a garage proprietor to advertise for his garage for the period of three years. The respondent, the garage owner, wrote to the appellant on the same day of the agreement to cancel as the representative was mistaken during the negotiation....
White and Bluett - 1853
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
The defendant was sued by his deceased father’s executors on a promissory note acknowledging a debt owed by the son which was signed by......
White and Others v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire
Example case summary. Last modified: 5th Oct 2021
The claimants (C) were all police officers who had been on duty within Hillsborough Stadium during the eponymous disaster, in which 95 Liverpool FC fans were killed and many others injured....
White v Blackmore - 1972
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
Mr White was thrown into the air and died from his injuries. Mrs White claimed damages in negligence and for breach of s2 Occupier’s Liability Act 1957....
White v Bluett - 1853
Example case summary. Last modified: 30th Sep 2021
Contract law – Consideration. Bluett Sr. lent his son, the respondent in this case, a sum of money and died before his son had repaid this to him. Bluett Sr. and Jr. had agreed on this and completed a promissory note to this effect....
White v Jones - 1995
Example case summary. Last modified: 5th Oct 2021
Considers professional negligence and the circumstances in which a third party can bring a claim on such grounds. A man, Mr White, wished to change his will so as to leave £9000 for the benefit of his two daughters, who he had chosen to exclude at the point of his will’s initial drafting....
Wilkes v Spooner
Example case summary. Last modified: 15th Jun 2019
A lessee of premises (L), upon which the lessee conducted his business as a general butcher, contained a covenant by which L covenanted...
Wilkie v Redsell 2003
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
Claim for equitable relief denied by claimant's own unconscionable conduct....
Wilkinson v Downton - 1897
Example case summary. Last modified: 28th Sep 2021
Damages – Psychiatric harm – Remoteness. Downton (D) made a joke to Mrs Wilkinson (W) that her husband, Thomas Wilkinson (T) had had an accident in which both his legs were broken and that W should go to The Elms pub where T was lying to bring him home. ...
Williams (JW) v Williams
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
The effect of the purpose of a trust in providing a family home on an attempted claim for a sales order under the 1925 LPA....
Williams (JW) v Williams (MA)
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
A husband and wife jointly owned a piece of property that acted as their family home, where they lived alongside their four children....
Williams & Glyn's Bank Ltd v Boland
Example case summary. Last modified: 28th Oct 2021
The equitable interest of spouses in occupation of a matrimonial home. The appeal concerned two consolidated cases. In a matrimonial home, each wife contributed to home’s purchase monies and mortgage instalments, rendering each tenant in common in equity to the extent of their financial contribution....
Williams v Hensman
Example case summary. Last modified: 22nd Oct 2021
Co-Ownership – Severance – Modes of Severance of Joint Tenancy. A fund of money had been bequeathed by a mother, on trust for eight children to be invested in order to create an income that would then be payable to her children on the mother’s death....
Williams v Morgan - 1906
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
The defendant was a borrower under a mortgage and the lender was the plaintiff’s predecessor. The mortgage deed provided that the principal......
Williams v Roffey Bros - 1991
Example case summary. Last modified: 5th Oct 2021
Whether performance of an existing duty can amount to consideration. The appellants Roffey Bros, were builders who were contracted to refurbish 27 flats belonging to a housing corporation....
Willis v Hoare (1999)
Example case summary. Last modified: 15th Jun 2019
The claimant was the head-tenant of a third-party's land, and had granted a four-year sub-lease to the defendant....
Wilsher v Essex Area Health Authority
Example case summary. Last modified: 29th Sep 2021
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....
Wilson Smithett v Bangladesh Sugar
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
A company responded to a tender invitation concerning the sale of sugar with Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries. Following the submission of the tender......
Wilson v Lombank
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
Wilson bought a car off Lombank. The representative of Lombank had no right to sell the vehicle. Wilson took the vehicle......
Wilson v Tyneside Window Cleaning Co
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
The complainant was a window cleaner that worked for the defendants, Tyneside Window Cleaning Co. Mr Wilson was an experienced worker....
Wilson v Wilson [1969]
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
Rectification of trust on grounds of mistake; effect of equitable interests....
Wilsons and Clyde Co v English
Example case summary. Last modified: 30th Sep 2021
The defendants had employed the complainant, Mr English. He was working on a repair to an airway on the Mine Jigger Brae, which was used as part of the haulage system....
Winkworth v Edward Baron Development Co Ltd
Example case summary. Last modified: 15th Jun 2019
The defendants, Mr and Mrs Wing, were directors of a company. The company owned the couple's matrimonial home......
Winter Garden Theatre (London) Ltd v Millennium Productions Ltd
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
The appellant was a company that owned a theatre and which had given the respondent a licence to occupy......
Winterbottom v Wright - 1842
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
The defendant contracted with the postmaster general to supply a mail coach for the purpose of carrying the mail along a particular route....
Wiseman v Simpson
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
Exclusion of a spouse from the premises of property of which he/she is a joint tenant....
With v O’Flanagan - 1936
Example case summary. Last modified: 4th Oct 2021
The claimant entered into negotiations with the defendant for the purchase of the defendant’s medical practice. During the negotiations, the defendant represented to the claimant that the practice took in around £2,000 per year....
Withers v Perry Chain Co Ltd - 1961
Example case summary. Last modified: 24th Jun 2019
Ms Withers was employed by the defendant factory doing bicycle hub assembly work. She contracted dermatitis from having contact with grease....
WJ Alan v El Nasr - 1972
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
It was important for the court to consider whether the payment for the goods given by the letter of credit in Pound Sterling could satisfy the value......
Wollerton and Wilson Ltd v Richard Costain Ltd
Example case summary. Last modified: 17th Jun 2019
The availability of an injunction for trespass in the absence of damage....
Wollerton and Wilson v Richard
Example case summary. Last modified: 21st Jun 2019
The defendant was a building company involved in a construction project which required the use of a crane. When the crane was erected......
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