Essential Cases: Contract Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. Essential Cases provides you with succinct summaries of some of the landmark and most influential cases in contract law. Each summary begins with a review of the main case facts and decision. The summary is then concluded with expert commentary on the case from the author, Nicola Jackson, including an assessment of the wider questions raised by the decision.
It can act as a succinct reference source alongside your core textbooks as you proceed through your course. It can also be used as a stand-alone revision aid as you approach examinations. But central to the Essential Cases series is the aim to encourage your own critical exploration of the legal matters under discussion.
Where possible, a link to a free-to-access full version of the judgment is included in each summary, providing you with an opportunity to deepen your understanding by reading the judgment of the court for yourself.
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Aruna Nair
Essential Cases: Land Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. Essential Cases provides you with succinct summaries of some of the landmark and most influential cases in land law. Each summary begins with a review of the main case facts and decisions. The summary is then concluded with expert commentary on the case from the author, Aruna Nair, including her assessment of the wider questions raised by the decision.
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Derek Whayman
Essential Cases: Equity & Trusts provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in McPhail v Doulton, Re Baden’s Deed Trusts (No 1) [1971] AC 424, House of Lords. The document also includes supporting commentary from author Derek Whayman.
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Noreen O'Meara
Essential Cases: EU Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. Essential Cases provides you with succinct summaries of some of the landmark and most influential cases in EU law. Each summary begins with a review of the main case facts and decision. The summary is then concluded with expert commentary on the case from the author, Noreen O'Meara., including her assessment of the wider questions raised by the decision.
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Jonathan Herring
Essential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. Essential Cases provides you with succinct summaries of some of the landmark and most influential cases in criminal law. Each summary begins with a review of the main case facts and decision. The summary is then concluded with expert commentary on the case from the author, Jonathan Herring, including his assessment of the wider questions raised by the decision.
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Craig Purshouse
Essential Cases: Tort Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. Essential Cases provides you with succinct summaries of some of the landmark and most influential cases in tort law. Each summary begins with a review of the main case facts and decision. The summary is then concluded with expert commentary on the case from the author, Craig Purshouse, including his assessment of the wider questions raised by the decision.
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Thomas E. Webb
Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. Essential Cases provides you with succinct summaries of some of the most influential, landmark cases in public law. Each summary begins with a review of the main case facts and decision. The summary is then concluded with expert commentary on the case from the author, Thomas Webb, including the wider questions raised by the decision for you to consider.
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Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation [2020] UKSC 43
amenity that arose prior to the killing (at [146]). Comment Henderson is an essential case because it clarifies the approach to illegality. This area of law had been in a confused
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Barclays Bank Plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13
the bank was not vicariously liable for his torts. Comment Barclays is an essential case as it clarifies the limits of the ‘akin to employment’ test and maintains the traditional
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Plaumann v Commission (Case 25/62), EU:C:1963:17, [1963] ECR 95, 15 July 1963
Commission (Case 11/82), EU:C:1985:18, [1985] ECR 207, 17 January 1985 Case 11/82 Piraiki-Patraiki [1985] ECR 207 , Joined cases 789/79 and 790/79 Calpak [1980] ECR 1949, and Case C-519/07
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Swindle v Harrison [1997] 4 All ER 705, Court of Appeal
1 (CA) and Target Holdings Ltd v Redferns [1996] 1 AC 421 (HL), both noted in Essential Cases , demonstrated there was a requirement of causation in compensation claims against
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Frost (or White) v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1999] 2 AC 455
AC 155] but also, without any explanation, necessary’. Comment Frost is an essential case on the law of psychiatric injury generally and primary victims in particular. In
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Murad v Al-Saraj [2005] EWCA Civ 959, Court of Appeal
[1967] 2 AC 46, House of Lords Boardman v Phipps [1967] 2 AC 46 (HL) , noted in Essential Cases ). It is said that this is ‘ pour encourager les autres ’ (at [74]). This appears very
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Federal Republic of Brazil v Durant International Corporation [2015] UKPC 35, Privy Council
1 AC 102, House of Lords Foskett v McKeown [2001] 1 AC 102 (HL) (also noted in Essential Cases ), sees tracing as a process of identifying where the value has gone—tracing value
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Krell v Henry [1903] 2 KB 740
32 LJ QB 164 did not apply only where a thing essential to a contract had been destroyed. When there was a state of affairs essential to the foundation of the contract, and a supervening
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Re Vandervell’s Trusts (No 2) [1974] Ch 269, Court of Appeal
European Ventures LLP v Cedar Capital Partners LLC [2014] UKSC 45 , both noted in Essential Cases , on these matters. Stephenson LJ briefly expressed doubts but concurred in the result
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Re Denley’s Trust Deed [1969] 1 Ch 373, Chancery Division
[1971] AC 424 (HL) , and Re Baden’s Deed Trusts (No 2) [1973] Ch 9 (CA) (noted in Essential Cases ), for a discretionary trust, a complete list of objects was required. It was pressed
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Iqbal v Prison Officers Association [2010] QB 732
or other prisoner wrongfully locked him in. Comment Iqbal is an essential false imprisonment case for its restatement of the basic elements of the tort. In holding that false
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Armitage v Nurse [1998] Ch 241, Court of Appeal
of Appeal Bristol and West Building Society v Mothew [1998] Ch 1 , also noted in Essential Cases ). This core does not, however, include the duties of care and skill, prudence, and
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Privacy International and others v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and others [2021] EWCA Civ 330, Court of Appeal (also known as the Third Direction case)
of law are essential components to legality. They cannot, Hooper argues, be ‘crudely traded off’ against one another. On the characterization of the prerogative in the case, which Hooper
