Famous Cases
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Famous Cases

Nine Trials That Changed the Law

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Famous Cases

Nine Trials That Changed the Law

About this book

The authors of this work have assembled the background to a selection of leading cases in English Law. From the Mareva case (synonymous with a type of injunction) to Lord Denning's classic ruling in the High Trees House case (the turning point for equitable estoppel).

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Information

Publisher
Waterside Press
Year
2002
Print ISBN
9781872870342
eBook ISBN
9781906534158
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Legal History
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgement
  3. CONTENTS
  4. Preface
  5. List of Cases
  6. PART I: Introduction
  7. 1 Origin and Growth of the Common Law
  8. Unwritten law
  9. Early laws
  10. The lawyer king
  11. Rise of the legal profession
  12. Precedent
  13. Court of Chancery
  14. Discord
  15. The Star Chamber
  16. The High Commission
  17. Trial by jury
  18. Statutes
  19. PART II Criminal Trials
  20. 2 George Joseph Smith and the "Brides in the Bath"
  21. MAKIN'S CASE
  22. The Privy Council hearing
  23. SMITH'S CASE
  24. The facts
  25. The appeal
  26. Aftermath
  27. Straffen
  28. Pragmatic approach
  29. A new precedent
  30. 3 Woolmington's Case
  31. Presumption of guilt
  32. The facts
  33. The first trial
  34. The second trial
  35. The first appeal
  36. Woolmington v. DPP
  37. No presumption of murder
  38. The "beyond reasonable doubt" principle
  39. Aftermath of Woolmington
  40. 4 Gypsy Jim Smith
  41. The case
  42. Malice aforethought
  43. DPP v. Smith
  44. Aftermath
  45. PART III Civil Cases
  46. 5 Donoghue v. Stevenson
  47. The claim
  48. Judgments
  49. The "neighbour" rule
  50. Explosive effects
  51. 6 Lord Denning's "High Trees" Case
  52. The Facts
  53. Legal argument
  54. The judgment
  55. 7 Rookes v. Barnard
  56. The facts
  57. The case
  58. The first appeal
  59. The House of Lords
  60. 8 The Mareva Injunction
  61. Nippon Yusen Kaisha v Karageorgis
  62. Mareva Compania Naviera SA v International Bulkcarriers SA
  63. Law reform
  64. 9 Wednesbury Unreasonableness
  65. Associated Provincial Picture Houses, Ltd v. Wednesbury Corporation
  66. The appeal
  67. What the case settled
  68. PART IV International Law
  69. 10 The Trials of Augusto Pinochet
  70. The legal background
  71. Background to the Pinochet case
  72. The arrests
  73. Divisional Court hearing
  74. First House of Lords appeal
  75. The problem
  76. The petition
  77. Second House of Lords appeal
  78. Historic decision
  79. Index
  80. Back cover