Case summaries & Statutes

Very important cases (not exhaustive, look at all the cases)

Very important cases read and outlined
Weeks 1 & 2 (Lecture 1 & 2, Tutorial 1)
Statutes
1. S 57(2) Sale of Goods Act 1979
Cases
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Smith v Hughes (1871) LR 6 QB 597 (CA)

Gibson v Manchester City Council [1979] 1 WLR 294 (HL)
Spencer v Harding (1869-70) LR 5 CP 561 (CCP)
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Chemists
Ltd [1953] 1 QB 401 (CA)
5. Partridge v Crittenden [1968] 1 WLR 1204
6. Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [1893] 1 QB 256 (CA)
7. Warlow v Harrison (1858) 1 El & El 295
8. Harvela Investments Ltd v Royal Trust Co of Canada (CI) Ltd
[1986] AC 207 (HL)
9. Blackpool and Fylde Aero Club Ltd v Blackpool BC [1990] 1
WLR 1195 (CA)
10.
Harvey v Facey [1893] AC 552 (PC)
11.
Hyde v Wrench (1840) 3 Beav 334
12.
Stevenson, Jacques & Co v McLean (1879-80) LR 5 QBD
346 (QBD)
13.
Brogden v Metropolitan Railway Co (1876-77) LR 2 App
Cas 666 (HL)
14.
Butler v Ex-Cell-O Corp (England) Ltd [1979] 1 WLR 401
(CA)
15.
Tinn v Hoffman (1873) 29 LT 271
16.
R v Clarke (1927) 40 CLR 227
17.
Manchester Diocesan Council for Education v Commercial and
General Investments Ltd [1970] 1 WLR 242
18.
Felthouse v Bindley (1862) 6 LT 85
19.
Brinkibon v Stahag Stahl und Stahlwarenhandels GmbH
[1983] 2 AC 34 (HL)
20.
Tenax Steamship Co v Owners of the Motor Vessel Brimnes
(The Brimnes) [1975] QB 929 (CA)
21.
Entores Ltd v Miles Far East Corp [1955] 2 QB 327 (CA)
22.
Adams v Lindsell (1818) 1 B & Ald 681
23.
Byrne v Van Tienhoven (1879-1880) LR 5 CPD 344 (CPD)
24.
Holwell Securities Ltd v Hughes [1974] 1 WLR 155 (CA)
25.
Errington v Errington [1952] 1 All ER 149 (CA)
26.
Luxor (Eastborne) Ltd v Cooper [1941] AC 108 (HL)

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Henthorn v Fraser [1892] 2 Ch 27 (CA) 32, 37

Shuey v US (1875) 92 US 73
Dickinson v Dodds (1875-76) LR 2 Ch D 463 (CA)

Weeks 3 & 4 (Lecture 3 & 4, Tutorial 2)

Statutes
1. Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999
Cases
1. White v Jones [1995] 2 AC 207
2. Currie v Misa (1875) L.R. 10 Ex 153
3. Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v Selfridge & Co [1915] AC 847 (HL)
4. Chappell & Co Ltd v Nestle Co Ltd [1960] AC 87 (HL)
5. Antons Trawling Co Ltd v Smith [2003] 2 NZLR 23
6. Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale Ltd [1992] 2 AC 548
7. White v Bluett (1853) 23 L.J. Ex 36
8. Hamer v Sidway 124 NY 538
9. Pitt v PHH Asset Management Ltd [1994] 1 WLR 327
10.
Thomas v Thomas [1842] 2 QB 851
11.
Eastwood v Kenyon (1840) 11 A & E 438
12.
Roscorla v Thomas (1842) 3 QB 234
13.
Re McArdle [1951] Ch 669
14.
Lampleigh v Braithwait (1615) Hob 105; 80 ER 255
15.
Re Caseys Patents [1892] 1 Ch 104
16.
Pao On v Lau Yiu Long [1980] AC 614
17.
Jones v Padavatton [1969] 1 WLR 628
18.
Combe v Combe [1951] 2 KB 215
19.
Collins v. Godefroy (1831) 1 B. & Ad. 950; 109 ER 1040
20.
Ward v. Byham [1956] 2 All E.R. 318
21.
Glasbrook Bros. Ltd. v. Glamorgan C. C. [1925] A.C. 270
22.
West Yorkshire Police Authority v Reading Festival [2006]
EWCA Civ 524
23.
Shadwell v. Shadwell (1860) 9 C.s.N.S. 159
24.
Stilk v. Myrick (1809) 2 Camp. 317; 170 ER 1168
25.
Hartley v Ponsonby (1857) 7 E & B 872
26.
Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd
[1991] 1 QB 1
27.
Adam Opel GmbH and Renault SA v Mitras Automotive (UK)
Ltd [2008] EWHC 3205
28.
South Caribbean Trading Ltd (SCT) v Trafigura Beeher BV
[2004] EWHC 2676
29.
WRN Ltd v Ayris [2008] All ER 276
30.
Attrill v Dresdner Kleinwort Ltd [2011] IRLR 613
31.
Pinnels Case (1602) 5 Co Rep 117a; 77 ER 237

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Foakes v Beer (1884) 9 App Cas 605
33.
In Re Selectmove Ltd [1995] 1 WLR 474
34.
Collier v P & MJ Wright (Holdings) Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ
1329
35.
Cook v Wright (1861) 1 B & S 559
36.
Wade v Simeon (1846) 2 CB 548
37.
Hughes v Metropolitan Railway Co. (1877) 2 App Cas 439
38.
Woodhouse AC Israel Cocoa Ltd v Nigerian Produce Marketing
Co Ltd [1972] AC 741 (HL)
39.
Amalgamated Investment and Property Co v Texas Commerce
International Bank Ltd [1982] QB 84
40.
Thorner v Major [2009] 1 WLR 776 (HL)
41.
Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd v Maher (1987) 164 CLR 387
42.
Central London Property Ltd v High Trees House Ltd
[1947] KB 130

Weeks 5 & 6 (Lecture 5 & 6, Tutorial 3)

Done with promissory estoppel handout,
Statutes
1. Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts Art. 2.1.1
2. The Principles of European Contract Law Art. 2:101, 2:211
Cases
1. Routledge v Grant (1828) 4 Bing 653
2. Household Fire and Carriage Accident Insurance Co. Ltd. v
Grant (1879) 4 ExD. 216
3. Storer v Manchester City Council [1974] 1 WLR 1403
4. Woodhouse Israel Cocoa v Nigerian Produce Marketing Co Ltd
[1972] AC 741
5. IMT Shipping v Chansung Shipping Co (The Zenovia) [2009] 2
Lloyds Rep 139
6. The Post Chaser [1981] 2 Lloyds Rep 693
7. Ajayi v Briscoe [1964] 1 WLR 1326
8. D & C Builders v Rees [1966] 2 QB 617
9. Evestorm Ltd v Hoptonacre Homes Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 1366
10.
Pascoe v Turner [1979] 1 WLR 431
11.
Crab v Arun District Council [1976] Ch 179
12.
New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd v A M Satterthwaite & Co Ltd
(The Eurymedon) [1975] AC 154
13.
The Satanita [1895] P 248 (CA) // Clarke v Dunraven [1897] AC
59 (HL)
14.
Tinn v Hoffmann & Co (1873) 29 LT 271
15.
Tekdata Interconnections Ltd v Amphenol Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ

1209, [2010] 1 Lloyds Rep 357

16.
Centrovincial Estates plc v Merchant Investors
Assurance Company Ltd [1983] Com LR 158, Court of Appeal
17.
Hartog v Colin & Shields [1939] 3 All ER 566, Kings Bench
Division
18.
Chwee Kin Keong v Digilandmall.Com Pte Ltd [2004] SGHC 71,
[2004] 2 SLR 594
19.
Denny v Hancock (1870) LR 6 Ch App 1, Court of Appeal
20.
Tamplin v James (1880) 15 Ch D 215, Court of Appeal
21.
Scriven Brothers & Co. v Hindley & Co. [1913] 3 KB 564, Kings
Bench Division
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