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Case Law
4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
Citation pending | 2007-07-31
Immigration – Leave to enter – Refusal of leave – Appeal – Appeal to a djudicator – Right to respect for private and family life – Decision-making role and function of a ppellate immigration authorities – Guidance –...
Citation pending | 2007-07-11
The claimant had been divorced from the Sultan of Brunei in February 2003. In January 2005 she brought proceedings against the defendants. The litigation involved audio cassette tapes containing confidential...
Citation pending | 2007-07-09
The first claimant and the second claimant (a company owned by the first claimant) issued proceedings against the defendant in libel. The particulars of claim stated that the second claimant ‘ predominantly trades and...
BL512/2007 VS. | 2007-06-18
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 was given exhibits B1 and B2 which is dated 16th February 1994. P.W.1 filled the big hole and walled it. He gave further evidence that on 14th April...
Citation pending | 2007-05-24
[26] In the Cadogan case, Judge Crawford Lindsay QC, giving judgment on 19 July 2006, decided that as the Chancery Division of the High Court and the county court were courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction when hearing a...
Citation pending | 2007-03-15
The Law Society brought disciplinary proceedings before the Solicitors ’ Disciplinary Tribunal against a solicitor, making two a llegations of conduct unbefitting a solicitor. The first a llegation was dismissed, but...
BL/265/2007 VS. | 2007-02-19
The plaintiff, a limited liability company filed a writ which was a ccompanied by a statement of claim on 19th February 2007 and claimed certain reliefs. On the 4th of December 2007, the plaintiff a mended its writ and...
L | 2007-01-18
1. That the High Court Cape Coast had no jurisdiction to hear an a pplication for and grant an order High Court per Justice Nana Gyamera Tawia dated the 24th day of August 2006, the parties do hereby time the impugned...
Citation pending | 2006-11-24
The claimant brought an action against the first defendant, which was a Malaysian company involved in the motor car business, and the second defendant, a Malaysian resident, who was the principal shareholder and a...
Citation pending | 2006-10-25
Limitation of action – Period of limitation – Personal injury claim – When proceedings ‘ brought ’ for purposes of limitation period – Whether claim ‘ brought ’ on date on which claim form issued by court – Whether...
Citation pending | 2006-06-21
[33] There is no doubt that the ECJ ’ s ruling went further than was strictly necessary for a determination of the question whether the transfer of the undertaking took place on a single date or over a period. It went...
Citation pending | 2006-05-17
collection obligation imposed by s 555(2) to apply to persons, such as the manufacturers, who did not reside or carry on any trade in the United Kingdom. That contention was rejected by the Special Commissioners and...
Citation pending | 2006-05-16
Libel and slander – Publication – Internet posting – Whether in action for libel on internet publication there was presumption of law that substantial publication had taken place within jurisdiction of English court.
Citation pending | 2006-03-30
The a ppellant was charged with conduct unbefitting a solicitor. The first a llegation was that he gave evidence in High Court proceedings, which the court found to be manifestly untrue. The other a llegation was that...
In a transfer case | 2006-03-28
Rule 15.4(3) Notification of the court ’ s determination of an a pplication and/or order for a preparatory hearing under s 7(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 or s 29(4) of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations...
Citation pending | 2006-03-28
[39] It is true that, in Hislop ’ s case, the right to buy a pplication had not reached the stage where the requirements of s 138 had been fulfilled because the local authority had not yet served a notice under s 125....
Citation pending | 2006-03-22
In March 2001 there was a fire in an empty classroom at the defendant school. Suspicion fell on three pupils at the school seen running a way, one of whom was the claimant. After an investigation by the police all...
Citation pending | 2006-02-23
Execution – Third party debt order – Interim third party debt order against bank – Whether sufficient on a pplication for such order for judgment creditor to establish that defendant had previously had account in...
Citation pending | 2005-12-16
Beryl Badger, the widow of Reginald Badger (the deceased), brought proceedings in negligence against the deceased ’ s employer, the Ministry of Defence. The ministry a dmitted primary liability for the claim and...
Citation pending | 2005-12-08
Evidence – Admissibility – Special Immigration Appeals Commission – Appeal against certification as terrorist – Evidence obtained by torture – Whether evidence obtained by torture a dmissible – Burden of proof –...
Citation pending | 2005-12-02
Costs – Taxation – Litigant a ppearing in person – Tax appeal – Counsel instructed on behalf of taxpayer by member of professional organisation under Licensed Access Scheme – Whether taxpayer entitled to costs in...
Citation pending | 2005-12-02
Costs – Order for costs – Payment of costs by non-party – Circumstances in which non-party may be ordered to pay costs of proceedings – Company director – Company making claim – Judge dismissing claim – Defendant a...
Citation pending | 2005-11-02
(2) The s 146 notice did not specify the particular breach complained of. A reasonable recipient of the notice would have understood that sharing of possession was not being complained of and that no steps needed to be...
ARB/01/6 | 2005-10-20
Practice – Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Third party debt orders – Account held by bank on behalf of trustee where judgment debtor beneficial owner of funds – Whether funds belonging to judgment debtor – Whether...
BL261/2006 VS. | 2005-10-19
The Plaintiff by his a mended writ dated 19th October 2005 claimed against the defendants jointly and severally the following 1. A declaration of title of the land described in the schedule a ttached to the statement...
Citation pending | 2005-10-10
The first plaintiff, a Gibraltar company in liquidation, had previously been used to operate a fraudulent offshore investment scheme purporting to offer high returns from investment in United Kingdom gilt-edged...
BL 08/2006 VS. | 2005-10-06
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 behalf and on behalf of the other a dministrator has compelled the defendant to argue that the plaintiff has no capacity to mount this action. The basis...
Citation pending | 2005-08-12
Gerald Maurice Krasner, the a dministrator of Huddersfield Fine Wools Ltd and of Globe Worsted Co Ltd a ppealed from the decision of Peter Smith J on 27 July 2005 ([2005] EWHC 1682 (Ch), [2005] AllER (D) 387 (Jul)) in...
Citation pending | 2005-08-09
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 interfere. See MAHAMA v SOLI [1976] 2GLR 99, HAIGGI v COMMONWEALTH HAULAGE [1963] 1GLR 276, that the learned trial judge purported to overrule the Court...
Page 270 of | 2005-07-28
‘ Thus an “a ddition” or “omission”, not a mounting to or requiring an a mendment will be a modification. It follows that an a djustment requiring such an a ddition or omission comes within the section. This...
Citation pending | 2005-06-30
By claim form issued on 8 April 2004, the claimant, Baker & Davies plc, brought proceedings against the defendant, Leslie Wilks Associates (a firm), for a contribution or indemnity under the provisions of s 1 of the...
Citation pending | 2005-06-15
The defendant, a chronic a lcoholic, was charged with the murder of his long-standing girlfriend. He a dmitted killing her with an axe while under the influence of a lcohol and the sole issue at his trial was...
Citation pending | 2005-05-19
Contempt of court – Criminal contempt – Disclosure of secrets of jury room – Whether defence for juror to show having bona fide aim of preventing miscarriage of justice – Whether statute to be interpreted as including...
Citation pending | 2005-03-22
This practice direction a mends the consolidated criminal practice direction handed down by Lord Woolf CJ on 8 July 2002 ([2002] 3 AllER 904). An a dditional section, set out below, is a dded to Pt I of the...
Citation pending | 2005-03-22
It replaces the existing Pt IV.41 of the Consolidated Criminal Practice Direction (Plea and Directions Hearings). It a dds a further part to Pt V of the consolidated criminal practice direction and a further a nnex...
Citation pending | 2005-03-03
The defendant local authority introduced a parking scheme for a large estate of council houses under its control. The scheme designated parking bays and prohibited parking on other parts of the estate. Under its terms...
BL211/2009 VS. | 2005-01-31
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 c. Perpetual injunction restraining the plaintiff, her a ssigns, workmen, servants and a gents from interfering with the said land. The issues set down...
Citation pending | 2004-11-30
Practice – Service – Service by post – Service by first class post at individual ’ s last known residence – Defendant having no notice of proceedings – Whether order made at trial to be set a side – Whether breach of...
1 does not apply to the a pplicants | 2004-11-25
The claimant was the proprietor of a field with a registered title. The defendant, who had fenced the field and grazed livestock on it, a pplied in 2003 for registration of title by adverse possession on the basis that...
Citation pending | 2004-11-25
Man company kept its funds on deposit with B bank. The Jersey company executed a deed of indemnity in favour of B bank in respect of the bank ’ s obligations under its guarantee of the subsidiary ’ s obligations to the...
Citation pending | 2004-11-17
Employment Appeal Tribunal – Grounds of appeal – Appeal on any question of law – Right to a fair trial – Unreasonable delay in employment tribunal promulgating decision – Whether independent ground of appeal –...
BL58/2005 VS. | 2004-11-03
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 The 2nd, 3rd and 4th defendants who contested the suit all denied that the house in dispute belonged to the plaintiff at the time of sale. They however...
Citation pending | 2004-10-28
The claimant was engaged to carry out certain works for the defendant under a contract incorporating a JCT standard form. The contract provided for the reference of disputes to an a djudicator. Clause 39A.2 provided...
Citation pending | 2004-10-25
Bankruptcy – Jurisdiction – Jurisdiction to act in aid of another British court – Statutory provision requiring every British court to act in aid of each other in bankruptcy matters – Whether provision having been...
Citation pending | 2004-10-06
The claimant, who was a serving prisoner, was a minority shareholder in a family company. He issued a claim form and particulars of claim seeking a money payment, a lleging unfair prejudice by the defendant majority...
Citation pending | 2004-07-29
The claimant was the sole trustee of a pension fund (the scheme) and the defendants were the principal employer under the scheme, a member of the scheme who was receiving the pension due to her, and a member of the...
Citation pending | 2004-07-02
Will – Option – Option to purchase realty – Will providing for testator ’ s house to be offered for purchase to claimant – Will specifying periods for a cceptance and completion – Claimant a ccepting offer within...
Citation pending | 2004-07-01
The employee was employed by the defendant council as a road sweeper, which was a post graded as manual worker grade 1. As a result of a complication during minor surgery, she became virtually unable to walk and could...
Citation pending | 2004-06-24
Before the 19th May,1999, the plaintiffs/a ppellants herein enjoyed the rights and privileges and performed the obligations that a ttached to their respective positions as employees of the defendant/respondent company....
H1/18/2004. | 2004-06-18
This appeal comes from the Accra Fast Track High Court and it is against the judgment delivered on 17th June 2003 by Julius Ansah, J.A, sitting as an a dditional judge of the High Court. The plaintiff/respondent...