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Leading cases by topic

Agreement

 * The Hannah Blumenthal [1983] 1 AC 854
 * Gibson v Manchester City Council [1979] 1 WLR 294
 * Centrovincial Estates plc v Merchant Assurance Co Ltd [1983] Com LR 158
 * Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/2334) Reg 24
 * Hudson, ‘Retraction of Letters of Acceptance’ (1966) 82 Law Quarterly Review 169

Enforceability

 * Hamer v. Sidway, 124 N.Y. 538, 27 N.E. 256 (N.Y. 1891),
 * Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, 222 N.Y. 88, 118 N.E. 214 (1917)
 * Cook v Wright (1869) 1 B&S 559
 * Re McArdle [1951] Ch 669
 * Ward v Byham [1956] 1 WLR 496
 * Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd
 * White v Jones
 * Hanson v Royden
 * Hartley v Ponsonby
 * Collins v Godefrey
 * Glasbrook Ltd v Glamorgan County Council [1925] AC 270
 * Arrale v Costain Civil Engineering Ltd [1976] 1 Lloyd's Rep 98
 * Simon Container Machinery Ltd v Emba Machinery AB
 * Sibree v Tripp

Privity

 * Tweddle v Atkinson (1861) 121 ER 762
 * Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre v Selfridge & Co Ltd [1915] AC 847
 * DeCicco v. Schweizer, 117 N.E. 807 (1917)
 * Smith and Snipes Hall Farm Ltd v River Douglas Catchment Board [1949] 2 KB 500
 * Beswick v Beswick [1967] UKHL 2
 * Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction [1980] 1 All ER 571
 * Linden Gardens Trust Ltd v Lenesta Sludge Disposals [1994] 1 AC 85
 * Henderson v Merrett Syndicates Ltd
 * White v Jones
 * Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd

Terms

 * Parker v South Eastern Railway Company (1877) 2 CPD 416
 * Thompson v London, Midland and Scottish Railway Co [1930] 1 KB 41
 * Olley v Marlborough Court [1949] 1 KB 532


 * Hollier v Rambler Motors Ltd [1972] 1 All ER 399
 * Canada Steamship Lines v R [1952] AC 192


 * Curtis v Chemical Cleaning and Dyeing Co [1951] 1 KB 805
 * McCutcheon v David MacBrayne Ltd [1964] 1 WLR 125


 * Paragon Finance plc v Nash [2002] 1 WLR 685

Impossibility

 * Raffles v Wichelhaus (1864) 2 H & C906; 159 ER 375
 * McRae v Commonwealth Disposals Commission (1951) 84 CLR 377
 * Grist v Bailey [1967] Ch 532
 * Nicholson & Venn v Smith-Marriot (1947) 177 L.T. 189
 * Associated Japanese Bank (International) Ltd v Credit du Nord [1989] 1 WLR 255
 * Brennan v Bolt Burdon [2004] 3 WLR 1321
 * Galloway v Galloway
 * Scott v Coulson
 * Res Sua, where the subject matter already belongs to oneself; and Res Extincta, where subject matter does not exist
 * Cooper v Phibbs
 * Sale of Goods Act 1979 s 6
 * Notcutt

Termination

 * Boone v Eyre (1777) 1 H Bl 273
 * Jackson v Union Marine Insurance
 * Bwllfa and Merthyr Dare Steam Collieries (1891) Ltd v Pontypridd Waterworks Co [1903] AC 426
 * British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co Ltd v Underground Electric Railways Co of London [1912] AC 673
 * Maredelanto Compania Naviera SA v Bergbau-Handel GmbH
 * Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd
 * Vitol SA v Norelf Ltd
 * Maredelanto Compania Naviera SA v Bergbau-Handel GmbH [1971] 1 QB 164
 * Rice (t/a Garden Guardian) v Great Yarmouth Borough Council (26 July 2000) The Times
 * BS&N Ltd v Micado Shipping Ltd (The Seaflower (No 2) [2000] 2 All ER (Comm) 169
 * Golden Strait Corporation v Nippon Yusen Kubishka Kaisha [2007] UKHL 12

Statutory regulation

 * Directive 98/27, Injustions for the protection of consumers' interests, OJ L 166 (11.6.1998) 51
 * Law Commission, Report 292 (2005)
 * Freiburger Kommunalbauten GmbH Baugesellschaft & Co KG v Hofstetter [2004] ECR I-3403

Remedies

 * Sale of Goods Act 1979 s 49
 * Law of Property Act 1925 s 49
 * Consumer Credit Act 1974 ss 90, 91, 129


 * Cutter v Powell (1795) 101 ER 573
 * Sumpter v Hedges [1898] 1 QB 673
 * Jacob & Youngs v Kent 230 NY 239 (1921)
 * Bolton v Mahadeva [1972] 1 WLR 1009


 * Robinson v Harman (1848) 1 Ex Rep 850
 * Addis v Gramophone Co Ltd [1909] AC 488
 * Jackson v Horizon Holidays Ltd [1975] 3 All ER 92


 * Victoria Laundry v Newman [1949] 2 KB 528
 * Koufos v C Czarnikow Ltd or The Heron II [1969] 1 AC 350
 * Parsons (Livestock) Ltd v Uttley Ingham & Co Ltd [1978] 1 QB 791
 * South Australia Asset Management Co v York Montague [1996] 3 All ER 365
 * HLA Hart and Tony Honoré, Causation in the law (1959)

Assumption

 * Nocton v Lord Ashburton
 * Williams v Natural Life Health Foods
 * Spring v Guardian Assurance plc
 * Caparo Industries plc v Dickman (working for Touche Ross!)
 * Ultramares Corp v Touche
 * New Natura Brevium
 * White v Jones

Unjust enrichment

 * Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale
 * Philip Collins Ltd v Davis

Misrepresentations

 * Dimmock v Hallett (1866-67) LR 2 Ch App 21
 * Edgington v Fitzmaurice
 * With v O'Flanagan [1936] Ch 575
 * Howard Marine & Dredging Co v A Ogden & Sons (Excavations) Ltd [1978] QB 574
 * Candler v Crane, Christmas & Co
 * Customs and Excise Commissioners v Barclays Bank [2006] UKHL 28, 81


 * Mistaken identity


 * C Macmillan, ‘Rogues, Swindlers and Cheats: the Development of Mistake of Identity in English Contract Law’ [2005] CLJ 711
 * Law Reform Committee, ‘Transfer of Title to Chattels’ (1966) Cmnd 2598 disagreed with Devlin LJ but said that contracts should be voidable, not void.

Iniquitous pressure

 * Consumer Credit Act 1974 ss 67, 68, 140A, 140B
 * Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 r 7


 * Default terms
 * remoteness
 * impossibility


 * Mandatory terms
 * mutual trust and confidence
 * fairness of exchange

Reasonableness

 * Blyth v Birmingham Waterworks Co (1856) 11 Ex 781
 * Nettleship v Weston [1971] 2 QB 691
 * King v Sussex Ambulance NHS Trust [2002] EWCA Civ 953
 * Gough v Thorne [1966] 1 WLR 1387
 * Vellino v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester [2002] EWCA Civ 1249
 * Re Polemis & Furniss, Withy & Co Ltd [1921] 3 KB 560
 * Scott v Shepherd (1772) 95 ER 525
 * Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd [2002] UKHL 22
 * Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945
 * Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978


 * Bamford v Turnley (1862) 3 B&S 67
 * Smith v The London and South Western Railway Company (1870-71) LR 6 CP 14
 * Summers v Tice, 199 P 2d 1 (1948)
 * Cook v Lewis [1951] SCR 830
 * Environment Agency v Empress Car Co (Abertillery) Ltd [1999] 2 AC 22
 * McKew v Holland & Hannan Ltd [1969] 3 All ER 1621
 * Ng Chun Pui v Lee Chuen Tat [1988] RTR 298
 * Bonnington Castings Ltd v Wardlaw [1956] AC 613
 * McGhee v National Coal Board [1973] 1 WLR 1
 * Wooldridge v Sumner [1963] 2 QB 43
 * Fitzgerald v Lane [1989] AC 328
 * Froom v Butcher [1976] QB 286
 * Morris v Murray [1991] 2 QB 6
 * Revill v Newberry [1996] QB 567, 579


 * Greenland v Chaplin (1850) 5 Ex 243
 * Woodley v Metropolitan District Railway Co (1877) 2 Ex D 384, volenti
 * MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., 217 N.Y. 382, 111 N.E. 1050 (1916)
 * Palsgraf v Long Island Railroad Co, 62 NE 99 (1928)
 * United States v Carroll Towing Co 159 F 2d 169 (2d Cir. 1947)
 * Glasgow Corp v Muir [1943] AC 448
 * Bolton v Stone [1951] AC 850
 * Wagon Mound (No 1) [1961] AC 388
 * Smith v Leech Brain & Co Ltd [1961] 2 QB 405
 * Wagon Mound (No 2) [1967] 1 AC 617
 * Tremain v Pike [1969] 1 WLR 1556
 * Sindell v Abbott Laboratories, 608 P 2d 924
 * Mullin v Richards [1998] 1 WLR 1304, 1312
 * Mansfield v Weetabix Ltd [1998] 1 WLR 1263, 1268
 * Barker v Corus plc [2006] UKHL 20

Responsibilities

 * Nuisances
 * Rylands v Fletcher
 * Sturges v Bridgman (1879) 11 ChD 852
 * Robinson v Kilvert (1889) LR 41 ChD 88


 * Turberville v Stampe (1697) 91 ER 1072
 * Goldman v Hargrave [1967] 1 AC 645


 * Hunter v Canary Wharf [1997] AC 655
 * Cambridge Water Company v Eastern Counties Leather plc [1994] 2 AC 264
 * Transco plc v Stockport MBC


 * Sedleigh Denfield v O'Callaghan [1940] AC 880
 * Smith v Littlewoods Organisation Ltd [1987] 1 AC 241
 * Leakey v National Trust [1980] QB 485


 * Miller v Jackson [1977] QB 966
 * Jones v Powell (1629) 123 ER 1169
 * Kennaway v Thompson [1981] QB 88
 * Allen v Gulf Oil Refining Ltd [1981] AC 1001
 * Wheeler v JJ Saunders Ltd [1996] Ch 19
 * Marcic v Thames Water Utilities Ltd [2003] UKHL 66


 * Occupiers
 * Wheat v E Lacon
 * Ward v Tesco Stores Ltd [1976] IRLR 92
 * Tedstone v Bourne Leisure Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 654


 * Roles v Nathan [1963] 1 WLR 1117
 * Ogwo v Taylor [1988] AC 431
 * Platt v Liverpool CC [1997] CLY 4864


 * Employers (for safe workplace)
 * Morton v William Dixon (1909) SC 807, 809
 * Brown v Rolls Royce [1960] 1 WLR 210


 * Stapley v Gypsum Mines [1953] AC 663
 * ICI v Shatwell [1965] AC 656


 * Employers (vicariously)
 * Turberville v Stampe (1697) 91 ER 1072
 * Lister v Hesley Hall
 * Williams v Natural Life Health Foods
 * Cassidy v Ministry of Health [1951] 2 KB 343, 360, if you can use dismissal as a sanction for good behaviour, you are in a strong bargaining position


 * Lister v Romford Ice
 * O'Kelly v Trusthouse Forte


 * Products
 * Greenman v Yuba Power Products, Inc, 59 Cal 2d 57 (1963)
 * D & F Estates
 * A v National Blood Authority
 * Ide v ATB Sales Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 424


 * Winterbottom v Wright
 * Donoghue v Stevenson
 * Grant v Australian Knitting Mills [1936] AC 85
 * Escola v Coca Cola Bottling Co of Fresno, 24 Cal 2d 453 (1944)
 * Roe v Ministry of Health [1954] 2 QB 66
 * Anns v Merton LBC
 * Product Liability Directive 85/374/EEC
 * Consumer Protection Act 1987
 * Murphy v Brentwood LBC


 * Animals and children
 * Animals Act 1971
 * Mirvahedy v Henley [2003] UKHL 16


 * Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd
 * Carmarthenshire CC v Lewis [1955] AC 459
 * Goreley v Codd [1967] 1 WLR 19
 * McCallion v Dodd [1966] NZLR 710, 727


 * Mullin v Richards


 * Services
 * ''Thake v Maurice - not causing damage


 * Philips v Whiteley (Williams) Ltd [1938] 1 All ER 566 - causing damage
 * Shakoor v Situ [2001] 1 WLR 410
 * Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582
 * Chester v Afshar


 * Customers?
 * Topp v London County Bus Ltd [1993] 1 WLR 976