In
this section: LANDLORD & TENANT | LANDS TRIBUNAL | LEGAL AID | LIMITATION
OF ACTION | LOCAL GOVERNMENT | MEDICAL PRACTITIONER
| MENTAL DISORDER | MENTAL HEALTH | MORTGAGE | NATURAL JUSTICE | NATIONAL
HEALTH SERVICE | NEGLIGENCE | NUISANCE
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| LANDLORD & TENANT |
| Rent restriction — Assured tenancy — Tenancy agreement containing clause providing for review of rent — Landlord sending letter to tenant initiating rent review procedure — Whether letter required to comply with statutory notice requirements — Housing Act 1988, s 13(1)(b)
Contour Homes Ltd v Rowen
[2007] WLR(D) 174
26/06/07
Lease — Tenant’s right to acquire new lease — Tenant’s notice to landlord for grant of new long lease — Existing tenancy of premises held on long lease comprising multiple flats with common parts or offices with flat — Landlord’s counter-notice denying tenant’s entitlement to exercise right — Whether landlord obliged to grant new lease — Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, s 56(1)
Howard de Walden Estates Ltd v Aggio and others; Earl Cadogan and another v 26 Cadogan Square Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 499
- [2008] Ch D 26
24/05/07
Business premises — Application for new lease — Landlord’s application to grant new lease to tenant — Tenant’s acknowledgment form indicating intention not to oppose new lease but opposing terms of renewal — Tenant later serving notice indicating intention not to take up new lease — Whether tenant to pay landlord’s costs — Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( c 56), s 24(1) as amended by Regulatory Reform (Business Tenancies) (England and Wales) Order 2003, art 3(1)
Lay and others v Drexler and others [2007] EWCA Civ 464
[2007] WLR (D) 138
18/05/07
Leasehold enfranchisement — Validity of notice of enfranchisement — Landlord entering into contract to surrender headlease to freeholder in return for grant of new lease and consideration — Headlease surrendered and new lease granted pursuant to agreement — Tenants serving notice requiring freeholder to dispose of new lease to tenants’ nominee — Whether appropriate notice — Landlord and Tenant Act 1987, ss 12B, 12C (as inserted by Housing Act 1996, s 92(1), Sch 6, Pt II
Kensington Heights Commercial Co Ltd v Campden Hill Developments Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 245
[2007] WLR (D) 72
21/03/07
Repairs — Covenant, implied — Breach of statutory duty — Annealed glass door panel giving way and injuring tenant — Whether landlord in breach of statutory duty in failing to replace door panel — Defective Premises Act 1972, s 4
Alker v Collingwood Housing Association
[2007] WLR (D) 20
07/02/07
Security of tenure — Premises let for business use with residential accommodation — Cesser of business use — Whether “let as a separate dwelling — Whether tenant enjoying protection as regulated tenant — Rent Act 1977, ss 1, 2, 24(3)
Tan and another v Sitkowski [2007] EWCA Civ 30
[2007] WLR (D) 16
01/02/07
Lease for fixed term — Tenants having no further use for premises before end of term — Landlord suing on the lease — Whether landlord having obligation to mitigate loss of rent
Reichman and another v Gauntlett and another [2006] EWCA Civ 1659
- [2007] Bus LR 412
13/12/06
Service charge — Statutory protection — Sub-tenant contesting maintenance charge — Whether “service charge” within meaning of statute — Whether service charge payable by tenant of dwelling notwithstanding dwelling part of larger demise —Whether sub-tenant having locus standi before tribunal — Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, s18(1)
Ruddy v Oakfern Properties Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 1389
[2006] WLR (D) 256
25/10/06
Leasehold enfranchisement - Landlord’s right to recover premises for development — Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c 28), s 47) 2)
Majorstake Ltd v Curtis -
[2006] 3 WLR 1114
8/08/06
Security of tenure — Assured shorthold tenancy for fixed term — Annual rent payable quarterly in advance — Tenant remaining in occupation after expiry of term — Whether annual tenancy — Whether landlord’s notice for possession giving three months’ notice valid — Housing Act 1988, s 5
Church Commissioners for England v Meya [2006] EWCA Civ 821
[2006] WLR (D) 158
21/06/06
Security of tenure — Statutory tenancy — Compromise of earlier possession action on terms inferring tenant’s protection —
Whether landlord entitled to challenge issue in subsequent action
Carphone Warehouse UK Ltd v Malekout [2006] EWCA Civ 767
[2006] WLR (D) 155
14/06/06
Forfeiture of lease — Re-entry — Premises let partly for residential purposes and partly for business purposes — Whether “let as a dwelling” — Protection from Eviction Act 1977, s 2
Pirabakaran v Patel and Another [2006] EWCA Civ 685 -
[2006] 1 WLR 3112
26/05/06
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| LANDS TRIBUNAL |
Compulsory acquisition — Compensation — Land in use as public open space — Victorian houses standing on land destroyed by war — Refusal of planning permission for development — Whether valuation on assumption that permission granted — Land Compensation Act 1961, ss 14(1), 15 (3)
Greenweb Ltd v Wandsworth London Borough Council; [2008] WLR (D) 286
[2008] WLR (D) 286
31/07/08
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| LEGAL AID |
Availability — Inquest — Application for funded representation in coroner’s court — Inquest into deaths of claimant’s mother and sister in railway accident Minister refusing claimant’s application for legal funding — Whether refusal unreasonable — Whether refusal breach of relative’s right under art 2 — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 2
R (Main) v Minister for Legal Aid [2007] EWCA Civ 1147
[2007] WLR (D) 303
19/11/07
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| LIMITATION
OF ACTION |
Negligence — Accrual of cause of action — Financial advisers giving negligent advice on pension scheme investment — Claimant leaving occupational pension scheme and investing in personal pension income withdrawal scheme in reliance on defendants’ advice — Whether loss first suffered at time of transaction or when value of pension investments falling — Limitation Act 1980, s 14A — Financial Services Act 1986, s 62
Shore v Sedgwick Financial Services Ltd and another [2008] EWCA Civ 863
[2008] WLR (D) 255
23/07/08
Breach of Community law — Claim for damages — Crown failing to implement certain provisions in Community Directives — Claimants suffering consequential loss — Whether cause of action accruing at time loss suffered — Whether claims statute-barred — Limitation Act 1980, s 2 — Council Directive 84/5/EEC, art 1(4) — Council Directive 89/391/EEC, art 6(2)
Spencer v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; Moore v Secretary of State for Transport and another [2008] EWCA Civ 750; [2008] WLR (D) 218
[2008] WLR (D) 218
01/07/08
Human Rights Act claim — Application to strike out — Defendant failing to apply within 14 days of filing acknowledgment of service — Whether thereby precluded from relying upon limitation — Human Rights Act 1998, s 7 — CPR Pt 11
Dunn v Parole Board [2008] EWCA Civ 374; [2008] WLR (D) 110
[2008] WLR (D) 110
16/04/08
Legal Aid — Certificate revoked — Recovery by Legal Services Commission of sums paid or payable — Accrual of cause of action — Whether condition precedent that quantum of costs be established — Legal Aid Act 1988 (c 34) — Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989 (SI 339/1989), regs 83, 84, 86(1)
Legal Services Commission v Rasool [2008] EWCA Civ 154; WLR (D) 75
WLR (D) 75
05/03/08
Breach of duty — Deliberate concealment of facts — Claim to set aside transaction undervalue — Defendants raising limitation defence — Whether transaction at undervalue involving deliberate commission of breach of duty — Whether facts deliberately concealed — Limitation Act 1980 ( c 58), s 32 (1) (b) (2) (as amended by Consumer Protection Act 1987, s 6(6), Sch 1, para 5(a) — Insolvency Act 1986, s 423.
Giles v Rhind (No 2) [2008] EWCA Civ 118; WLR (D) 66
WLR (D) 66
28/02/08
Land, recovery of — Possessory title — Registered owners living abroad — Former tenant letting defendant into property — Defendant claiming to be tenant in possession proceedings — Whether defendant’s claim precluding intention to possess — Whether defendant’s claim constituting acknowledgement of claimants’ title — Whether title extinguished — Limitation Act 1980, s 29 — Human Rights Act 1998, s 3, Sch 1, Pt II, art 1
Ofulue and another v Bossert [2008] EWCA Civ 7; [2008] WLR (D) 22
[2008] WLR (D) 22
29/01/08
Defamation — Accrual of cause of action — Anonymous libel — Discretion to extend time — Whether knowledge of identity of tortfeasor integral to cause of action accruing — Limitation Act 1980, ss 4A (as substituted by Defamation Act 1996, s 5), 32A (as inserted by Administration of Justice Act 1985), 32(1)(b)
Edwards v Golding and others
[2007] WLR (D) 88
03/04/07
Personal injuries — Time limit — Soldier on training exercise suffering hearing damage from explosion — Military career remaining unharmed for eight years — Date of knowledge of significant damage — Whether test subjective — Limitation Act 1980, ss 11(4)(b), 14(2)(3)
McCoubrey v Ministry of Defence [2007] EWCA Civ 17
[2007] WLR (D) 6
24/01/07
Breach of contract — Equitable remedy — Specific performance — Whether six-year limit in contract and tort applicable by analogy — Limitation Act 1980, ss 2, 5, 36(1)
P & O Nedlloyd BV v Arab Metals Co and others [2006] EWCA Civ 1717
[2006] WLR (D) 300
13/12/06
Personal injuries — Time limit — Adult claimant alleging abuse by first defendant’s employee during 1970s — Date when claimant first knew injuries were “significant” — Meaning of terms “reasonable” and “reasonably” — Whether claims statute-barred — Guidance — Limitation Act 1980, ss 14(2)(3)
Young v Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) and another [2006] EWCA Civ 1534
[2006] WLR (D) 277
14/11/06
Period of limitation — Bringing of action — Claimant lodging claim form and request for its issue at court office one day before expiry of limitation period — Claim form not issued until after expiry of limitation period — Whether claim “brought” within limitation period — Limitation Act 1980, s 11(3)
Barnes v St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council [2006] EWCA Civ 1372
[2006] WLR (D) 254
25/10/06
Charge on bankrupt’s home made in favour of trustee in bankruptcy — Trustee applying for sale of property — Whether time limit running against trustee — Limitation Act 1980, s 20(1) — Insolvency Act 1986, s 313
Doodes v Gotham and another [2006] EWCA Civ 1080
[2006] WLR (D) 199
25/07/06
Personal injuries — Time limit, power to override — Adult claimants bringing late claims for damages for attempted rape and sexual abuse by teachers — Whether claims alleging trespass to person subject to discretionary time limit — Whether concurrent claims in negligence subject to discretionary time limit — Whether councils vicariously liable for abusing teachers’ failure to report misconduct — Whether limitation period to be disapplied or extended — Limitation Act 1980, ss 2, 11, 33
A v Hoare;
H v Suffolk County Council;
X and Y v Wandsworth London Borough Council [2006] EWCA Civ 395
- [2008] 2 WLR 311
12/04/06
Personal injuries — Time limit, power to overrule — Writ issued soon after expiry of three-year period — Failure thereafter to serve particulars causing claim to be struck out — Claimant issuing fresh proceedings — Whether judge having discretion to allow second action to proceed — Limitation Act 1980, s 33(1)
Adam v Ali [2006] EWCA 91
[2006] WLR (D) 44
21/02/06
Contribution — Accrual of cause of action — Employee injured at work due to malfunction of lift — Judgment against employer on liability by consent with later judgment by consent on quantum — Employer commencing contribution proceedings against lift contractor and sub-contractor — Whether limitation period to run from date of judgment on liability or judgment on quantum — Limitation Act 1980, s 10
Aer Lingus v Gildacroft Ltd and another [2006] EWCA Civ 4
- [2006] 1 WLR 1173
17/01/06
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| LOCAL
GOVERNMENT | Homeless persons — Whether “homeless intentionally” —Women occupying women’s refuge evicted for misconduct — Whether refuge “accommodation” — Whether “reasonable … to continue to occupy” refuge — Whether local authority owing housing duty — Housing Act 1996, ss175(1)(3), 191(1)
Moran v Manchester City Council; Richards v Ipswich Borough Council [2008] EWCA Civ 378; [2008] WLR (D) 112
[2008] WLR (D) 112
17/04/08
Homeless persons — Priority need — Housing authority distinguishing between “street homeless” and “homeless at home” — Accommodation of homeless at home found unsuitable but temporary replacement accommodation not provided— Whether authority discharging duty to secure accommodation — Housing Act 1996 (as amended), ss 175(3), 193(2), 210
R (Aweys and others) v Birmingham City Council [2008] EWCA Civ 48; [2008] WLR (D) 36
[2008] WLR (D) 36
07/02/08
Homeless persons —Accommodation available for occupation — Whether applicant having accommodation elsewhere — Whether applicant to be treated as homeless regardless of reasonableness of expecting him to occupy accommodation elsewhere — Housing Act 1985, s175(1),(3)
R(Maloba) v Waltham Forest London Borough Council
[2007] WLR (D) 323
04/11/07
Homeless persons — Refusal of accommodation —Claimant living in overcrowded dwelling in contravention of statute— Claimant applying to be treated as homeless —Housing review officer concluding reasonable for claimant to continue to occupy dwelling — Whether decision of housing officer illegal, perverse or irrational — Housing Act 1985, s 327 — Housing Act 1996, ss 175, 177(2), 210
Harouki v Kensington and Chelsea Royal London Borough Council [2007] EWCA Civ 1000
- [2008] 1 WLR 797
17/10/07
Homeless person — Priority need — Family Court making uncontested shared residence order — Local authority rejecting homeless father’s application for accommodation as in priority need — Whether Family Court order determinative — Whether reasonable to expect that children would live with father — Housing Act 1996 (c 52), ss 189(1)(b), 204
Holmes-Moorhouse v Richmond-upon-Thames London Borough Council [2007] EWCA Civ 970
[2007] WLR (D) 251
10/10/07
Public highway — Compensation for nuisance — Noise pollution depreciating value of houses adjoining new highway — Highway constructed by developer — Whether highway maintained at public expense at date highway construction completed for public use — Land Compensation Act 1973 (c 53), s 19(3) — Highways Act 1980 (c 66), 24(2), 36(2), 274, 278
O’Connor and others v Wiltshire County Council [2007] EWCA Civ 426
[2007] WLR (D) 124
09/05/07
Powers — Failed asylum seekers — Applicants in need of assistance — Whether local authority under duty to provide assistance — Whether applicants entitled to support from central government — National Assistance Act 1948, s 21(1A) (as inserted by Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, s 116)
R (AW and others) v Croydon London Borough Council and another [2007] EWCA Civ 266
[2007] WLR (D) 89
04/04/07
Homeless person — Homeless person of seventeen years applying for housing — Local authority delaying decision until applicant reached eighteen years and refusing housing — Whether local authority entitled to postpone decision for investigation or mediation process whereby child applicant became eighteen and ineligible for housing — Housing Act 1996 c 52), ss 184, 193
Robinson v Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council
- [2006] 1 WLR 3295
28/07/06
Homeless persons — Temporary accommodation — Local housing authority satisfied that applicant in priority need but homeless intentionally — Duty to provide accommodation for such period as giving applicant “reasonable opportunity” to secure accommodation — Whether housing authority entitled to take its own resources into account in considering length of period required — Housing Act 1996, s 190(2)(a)
R (Conville) v Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council [2006] EWCA Civ 718 -
[2006] 1 WLR 2808
8/06/06
Housing — Homeless persons — Right to housing support for European Economic Area National living in United Kingdom with income support — Right of Dutch national to enter and remain in United Kingdom — Whether EEA national entitled to enter and remain indefinitely in United Kingdom — Whether EEA national subject to immigration control.
Ismail and another v Barnet London Borough Council [2006] EWCA Civ 383
- [2006] 1 WLR 2771
6/04/06
Powers — Police request for secure accommodation for arrested juvenile — Local authority’s duty to provide accommodation — Whether limited to authority in whose area child located — Whether duty to provide secure accommodation — Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, s 38(6A) (as inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1991, s 59) — Children Act 1989, s 21(2)(b)
R (M) v Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council -
[2006] 3 WLR 108
14/03/06
Homeless persons
— Priority need — Claimant's dependent child subject to immigration
control — Child disregarded in determining whether claimant had priority
need for accommodation — Whether discrimination on ground of national origin
— Housing Act 1996, s 185(4) — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1 Pt 1, art
8, 14
R
(Morris) v Westminster City Council and Another (CA Civ)
R (Badu) v Lambeth
London Borough Council and Another - [2006] 1 WLR 505
14/10/05
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| MEDICAL
PRACTITIONER | Medical
treatment — Withdrawal of feeding — Whether guidance given by General
Medical Council on withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration incompatible
with patient's human rights — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt 1, arts 2,
3, 8
R
(Burke) v General Medical Council (Official Solicitor and others intervening):
[2005] EWCA Civ 1003 - [2006] QB 273; [2005] 3 WLR 1132
28/07/05
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Mental health review tribunal — Discharge of patient — Restriction order made after conviction — Patient granted conditional discharge from hospital by review tribunal — Patient recalled under warrant by Secretary of State — Delay in referral to review tribunal — Whether statutory scheme compatible with patient’s Convention rights — Mental Health Act 1983 (c20), ss 37, 41, 42, 75 — Human Rights Act 1998 (c42), Sch 1, Pt 1, art 5(4) — Mental Health Review Tribunal Rules 1983 (SI 1983/942), r 29(cc) (as inserted by Mental Health Review Tribunal (Amendment)Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1189), r 2)
R (Rayner) v Secretary of State for Justice [2008] EWCA Civ 176
WLR (D) 85
12/03/08
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Secretary of State’s powers — Leave of absence — Patient granted leave of absence by registered medical officer — Patient wishing to make trial transfer to private sector medium security hospital — Secretary of State refusing to fund transfer — Whether Secretary of State (or his delegate) obliged to fund placement — Whether opinion of registered medical officer binding on Secretary of State — National Health Service Act 1977, s 3 — Mental Health Act 1983, s 17
Regina (K) v West London Mental NHS Trust [2006] EWCA Civ 118
[2006] WLR (D) 57
22/02/06
Mental
health review tribunal — Standard of proof — Restricted patient applying
to tribunal for discharge — Conflicting medical evidence — Appropriate
standard of proof — Mental Health Act 1983, s 72, 73
R
(N) v Mental Health Review Tribunal (Northern Region) and others [2005] EWCA Civ
1605
- [2006] QB 468; [2006] 2 WLR 850
21/12/05
Accused acquitted of murder on grounds
of insanity — Detention in hospital — Subsequent conditional discharge
— Recall to hospital on grounds of emergency — Continuation of recall
following further medical advice — Whether requirement for continued detention
to be founded on same form of mental disorder as underlay original detention —
Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964, s 5(1)(a) — Mental Health Act 1983,
ss 37, 42(3)
R
(L) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2005] EWCA Civ 2 - [2006] 1 WLR 88
20/01/05
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| MENTAL HEALTH |
Compulsory detention — Consent to treatment — Convicted rapist detained in secure mental hospital — Refusal to consent to treatment — Whether compulsory treatment in breach of human rights — Mental Health Act 1983 (c 20), s 58 — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 3, 8, 14
Regina (B) v SS and others [2006] EWCA Civ 28
[2006] WLR (D) 20
26/01/06
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Possession — Mortgagee’s right to — Legal charge over mortgagor’s leasehold interest to secure liabilities to bank — Mortgagor’s failure to make payments — Leasehold interest vesting in trustee following mortgagor’s bankruptcy — Bank’s failure for 12 years to demand payment or enforce security — Whether mortgagor in “adverse possession” — Whether bank’s right of action extinguished — Limitation Act, ss 15, 17, Sch 1, Pt 1, para 8
Ashe (Trustee in bankruptcy of Djabar Babai) v National Westminster Bank plc [2008] EWCA Civ 55; [2008] WLR (D) 40
- [2008] 1 WLR 710
08/02/08
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| NATURAL JUSTICE |
Bias — Apparent bias —Personal dealings between judge and firm of solicitors — Animosity towards firm expressed by judge — Partner in firm involved in contentious litigation as trustee — One month later application in trust case listed before judge — Judge refusing to recuse himself — Whether apparent bias
Howell and others v Lee-Millais
[2007] WLR(D) 187
04/07/07
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| NATIONAL
HEALTH SERVICE | Health authority — Provision of care — Patient requiring constant and expensive care — Whether primary care trust or social services authority to decide if requiring health care provided by trust or social care from authority — National Assistance Act 1948, ss 21, 29 — National Health Service Act 2006, ss 1-3
R (St Helens Borough Council) v Manchester Primary Care Trust and another [2008] EWCA Civ 931; [2008] WLR (D) 288
[2008] WLR (D) 288
06/08/08
Health authority — Consultation on provision of services — Primary care trust putting out to tender contract to provide general practitioner services — Preferred provider status awarded to health care company without consulting patients — Patient seeking judicial review — Whether in breach of statutory duty to consult — Whether patient entitled to relief — Health and Social Care Act 2001, s 11
R (Smith) v North Eastern Derbyshire Primary Care Trust (Secretary of State for Health intervening) -
[2006] 1 WLR 3315
23/08/06
Medical treatment — Allocation of funds — Drug prescribed for breast cancer patient —Drug licensed only for later stage of breast cancer — Claimant applying to primary care trust for funding —Application refused without regard to cost — Exceptional need not established — Whether refusal irrational and unlawful
R (Rogers) v Swindon NHS Primary Care Trust [2006] EWCA Civ 392
- [2006] 1 WLR 2649
12/04/06
Health
authority — Provision of "facilities" — Whether Secretary
of State's statutory duty to provide facilities to be narrowly construed —
Whether including providers of care services — National Health Service Act
1977, s 3(1)(e)
R
(Keating & Ors) v Cardiff Local Health Board - [2006] 1 WLR 158
6/07/05
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| NEGLIGENCE | Duty of care to whom? — Supervision of children playing — Parents hiring bouncy castle for children’s party — Mother supervising play but briefly turning away — Child severely injured by another child doing somersault — Whether duty of care breached — Whether uninterrupted supervision required
Harris v Perry and another [2008] EWCA Civ 907; [2008] WLR (D) 278
[2008] WLR (D) 278
31/07/08
Causation — Brain injury — Claimant exposed to lack of care in one hospital — Claimant transferred to another hospital where suffering brain injury — Whether “but for” test appropriate to establish that absent lack of care injury would not have occurred — Whether sufficient to show negligent cause materially contributing to injury
Bailey (by her father and litigation friend) v Ministry of Defence and another [2008] EWCA Civ 883
[2008] WLR (D) 270
29/07/08
Causation — Manslaughter — Claimant injured in railway accident suffering post traumatic stress disorder causing severe depression and psychological changes — Claimant guilty of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility — Train and track operators admitting liability in negligence for injuries including post traumatic stress disorder prior to manslaughter— Whether on public policy grounds claimant entitled to loss of earnings only to date manslaughter committed
Gray v Thames Trains Ltd and another [2008] EWCA Civ 713; [2008] WLR (D) 210
[2008] WLR (D) 210
25/06/08
Duty of care to whom? — Registration authority for nursing homes — Power to apply for cancellation of registration — Whether health authority owing duty of care in exercising power — Registered Homes Act 1984, s 30
Jain and another v Trent Strategic Health Authority [2007] EWCA Civ 1186
- [2008] 2 WLR 456
22/11/07
Duty of care to whom? — Parents suspected of child abuse — Children placed on child protection register due to maladministration — Parents claiming damages for negligence and breach of right to family life — Whether duty of care owed by social workers to parents — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8
Lawrence v Pembrokeshire County Council [2007] EWCA Civ 446
[2007] WLR (D) 131
14/05/07
Duty of care to whom? — Employee — Employee injured in road accident whilst driving excessive hours after long working day — Whether employer liable for causing employee to drive whilst too tired
Eyres v Atkinsons Kitchens and Bedrooms Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 365
[2007] WLR (D) 103
24/04/07
Duty of care to whom? — Dock workers — Dock workers developing asbestos related illness — National Docks and Labour Board under express statutory duty to make satisfactory provision for welfare of dock workers— Whether owing dock workers common law duty of care — Whether Secretary of State liable as board’s successor — Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Order 1947, art 3(1)(g)
Rice and another v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and another
[2007] WLR (D) 93, CA Civ
04/04/07
Foreseeability of injury – Suicide – Severe injury to employee caused by employer’s negligence leading to depression and suicide – Whether suicide to be regarded on public policy grounds as too remote – Whether widow entitled to bring fatal accident claim – Fatal Accident Act 1976, s 1
Corr (Administratrix of the Estate of Thomas Corr, decd) v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 331 -
[2006] 3 WLR 395
31/03/06
Duty of care to whom? — Prison authorities — Claimant prisoner allegedly in depressed and suicidal condition knowingly placed in same cell as fellow prisoner threatening suicide and subsequently committing suicide — Claim for damages for psychiatric injury caused by finding fellow prisoner’s body in cell and prison officer blaming claimant for prisoner’s suicide — Whether claim valid
Butchart v Home Office [2006] EWCA Civ 239
- [2006] 1 WLR 1155
15/03/06
Asbestos exposure —Claimants having pleural plaques indicating exposure to asbestos— Whether aggregate of presence of pleural plaques, de minimis risk of development of serious illness and resulting anxiety constituting sufficient damage to give rise to claim — Policy considerations
Rothwell v Chemical & Insulating Co Ltd and Chemical and Insulating Co Ltd; Topping v Benchtown Ltd ( formerly Jones Bros Preston Ltd);Johnston v NEI International Combustion Ltd; Mears v R G Carter Ltd; Grieves v F T Everard & Sons Ltd and British Uralite plc; Hindson v Pipe House Wharf (Swansea) Ltd
- [2008] AC 281
18/01/06
Duty of care to whom? — Parents suspected of child abuse — Local authority undertaking care proceedings on mistaken premise child of five months suffering non-accidental injury — Enforced separation of mother and child following interim care order and placement in short-term foster care — Child returned to parents’ care four months later — Whether duty of care owed by local authority to mother — Whether cause of action in damages by child
A D v Bury Metropolitan Borough Council;
O H v Same [2006] EWCA Civ 1
- [2006] 1 WLR 917
17/01/06
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| NUISANCE |
Public nuisance —Tort — Whether claim lying for damages for personal injury
Corby Group Litigation v Corby Borough Council [2008] EWCA Civ 463; [2008] WLR (D) 144
[2008] WLR (D) 144
08/05/08
Things naturally on land — Tree — Abatement of nuisance — Tree protected by preservation order causing nuisance to landowner and neighbour — Whether uprooting or lopping tree only means of abating nuisance — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ( c8), s 198(6)(b)
Perrin and another v Northampton Borough Council [2007] EWCA Civ 1353
[2007] WLR (D) 338
19/12/07
Undertaking not to commit — Modification — Offensive smell from defendant’s farm causing public nuisance — Defendant giving undertaking to court not to cause nuisance — Whether appropriate for court in subsequent enforcement proceedings to modify undertaking
Mid Suffolk District Council v Clarke [2006] EWCA Civ 71
[2006] WLR (D) 36
15/02/06
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