Earlier reported cases judgments, 1942

5 judgments, newest first. Open any case for its summary, the legal points it decides and how later courts have treated it.

Date Case Cited by
5 Aug 1942
Bourhill v Young
[1943] AC 92
A duty of care in negligence is owed only to persons whom a reasonable person would foresee as likely to be affected by the conduct. For psychiatric injury…
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15 Jun 1942
Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd
[1943] AC 32
Frustration discharges future contractual performance but does not prevent restitution of an advance payment where the payer has received none of the…
 25
27 Apr 1942
Duncan v Cammell, Laird & Co Ltd
[1942] AC 624
In civil proceedings, otherwise producible evidence must be withheld where its disclosure would injure the public interest. The objection may rest on the…
 8
4 Mar 1942
Century Insurance Co v Northern Ireland Road Transport Board
[1942] AC 509
An employee remains the servant of the general employer unless the service itself, rather than merely the use and benefit of the employee’s work, has been…
 1
20 Feb 1942
Regal (Hastings) Ltd v Gulliver
[1967] 2 AC 134
A fiduciary who obtains a personal profit by reason of, or in the course of, the fiduciary position must account to the principal. Liability is strict. It does…
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