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Special Issue – 135 Years of The Law Reports and The Weekly Law Reports

Justis Publishing is pleased to publish this special collection of ten landmark cases on Justis. It marks the relaunch in 2001 of The Law Reports and The Weekly Law Reports in a new format for the 21st century, and celebrates the achievements of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) since its inception nearly 136 years ago. The reports were chosen from a long list of nearly fifty cases nominated by the Council’s own reporters.

Foreword by Robert Williams

Introduction by Paul Magrath

Included case reports

R v. Dudley and Stephens [1884] 14 QBD 273 DC
Criminal Law – Murder – Killing and eating Flesh of Human Being under Pressure of Hunger – "Necessity" – Special Verdict – Certiorari – Offence on High Seas – Jurisdiction of High Court
Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [1893] 1 QB 256 CA
Contract – Offer by Advertisement – Performance of Condition in Advertisement – Notification of Acceptance of Offer – Wager – Insurance
Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 HL(Sc)
Negligence – Liability of Manufacturer to ultimate Consumer – Article of Food – Defect likely to cause Injury to Health
Woolmington v DPP [1935] AC 462 HL(E)
Criminal Law – Murder – Onus of Proof – Accident – Unlawful Intention – Direction to the Jury – Reasonable Doubt of Guilt
Young v Bristol Aeroplane Co Ltd [1944] KB 718 CA
Court of Appeal – Obligation to follow previous decisions
Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd [1947] KB 130
Contract – Agreement intended to create legal relations – Promise made thereunder – Knowledge of promisor that promisee will act on promise – Promise acted on – Enforceability of agreement without strict consideration – Agreement under seal – Variation of by agreement of lesser value – Estoppel
Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 CA
Cinematograph – Sunday performances – Licence – Condition that "no children under the age of fifteen years shall be admitted to any entertainments whether accompanied by adult or not" – Action by licensees – Claim for declaration that condition ultra vires or unreasonable
Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales v Attorney-General [1972] Ch 73 CA
Charity – Charitable purposes – Law reporting – Company limited by guarantee with objects of preparation and publication of reports of judicial decisions – Charges for publications – Carrying on business – Profits not payable to members – Whether objects exclusively charitable
American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon Ltd [1975] AC 396 HL(E)
Injunction – Interlocutory – Jurisdiction to grant – Principles on which interlocutory injunction to be granted – No need to be satisfied that permanent injunction probable at trial – Protection of parties – Balance of convenience – Criteria – Rule identical in patent cases
Van Duyn v Home Office [1975] Ch 358 ECJ
European Economic Community – Free movement of workers – Public policy – Organisation contrary to public good – Lawful for United Kingdom nationals to work in organisation – Whether other community workers free to enter United Kingdom and work for organisation – Scientology – Difference between regulation and directive
Practice Direction (Judgments: Form and Citation) [2001] 1 WLR 194 Sup Ct
Practice – Supreme Court – Judgments – Standard form of judgments in High Court and Court of Appeal – Neutral citation to be adopted in Court of Appeal and Administrative Court – Law Reports to be cited in preference to all other series – Citation of reproductions of reports in electronic form

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