Earlier reported cases judgments 1970

Date	Case	Cited by
18 Dec 1970	Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking Ltd [1971] 2 QB 163 In an automated transaction, the contract is made when the customer takes the irrevocable step which operates the machine. Terms first communicated on a ticket…	13
9 Nov 1970	Gallie v Lee (Saunders v Anglia Building Society) [1971] AC 1004 The plea of non est factum is confined within narrow limits. A signed document is void only where the signer’s consent was truly absent because the transaction…	21
5 Nov 1970	Ealing London Borough Council v Race Relations Board [1972] AC 342 Discrimination on the ground of a person's present legal nationality or citizenship was not discrimination on the ground of “national origins” within section…	6
22 Jul 1970	Lever Finance Ltd v Westminster (City) London Borough Council [1971] 1 QB 222 A detailed planning permission covers the approved work and any variation which is immaterial. An established and sensible practice may authorise a planning…	9
15 Jul 1970	British Oxygen Co Ltd v Board of Trade (British Oxygen Co Ltd v Minister of Technology) [1971] AC 610 A public authority entrusted with statutory discretion may adopt a policy, even one precise enough to be called a rule, to guide many similar applications. It…	83
7 Jul 1970	Gissing v Gissing [1971] AC 886 A spouse without legal title to a matrimonial home acquires a beneficial interest only through the ordinary principles governing resulting, implied or…	72
1 Jul 1970	Maredelanto Cia Naviera SA v Bergbau-Handel GmbH [1971] 1 QB 164 An owner’s contractual assurance that a vessel is expected ready to load on or about a stated date is a condition. It warrants that the owner honestly held…	21
9 Jun 1970	Crow v Wood [1971] 1 QB 77 On a conveyance which severs land previously held in common ownership, section 62(1) of the Law of Property Act 1925 may pass an advantage previously enjoyed…	3
6 May 1970	In re Baden’s Deed Trusts (McPhail v Doulton, Baden v Smith) [1971] AC 424 A discretionary trust does not fail merely because every member of the class of potential beneficiaries cannot be identified. The trust is valid if it can be…	15
6 May 1970	Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office (Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd) [1970] AC 1004 A person entrusted with the custody and control of another may owe a duty to protect nearby property from that person where the relationship creates a special…	75
27 Apr 1970	Merritt v Merritt [1970] 1 WLR 1211 The presumption that domestic arrangements between spouses lack contractual intent applies while they live together in amity. It does not apply after their…	4
23 Mar 1970	R v Gaming Board for Great Britain, Ex parte Benaim and Khaida [1970] 2 QB 417 A public body deciding whether to grant a statutory privilege must act fairly, even though its functions are administrative and the applicant has no existing…	6
4 Mar 1970	Jefford v Gee [1970] 2 QB 130 Interest on damages compensates a claimant for being deprived of money which ought to have been paid, not for the injury itself. Interest on past pecuniary…	19
3 Mar 1970	Brown (B S) & Son Ltd v Craiks Ltd [1970] 1 WLR 752 Goods sold by description may be of merchantable quality although unsuitable for the buyer’s undisclosed intended purpose. Where goods of the general character…
14 Jan 1970	Pugh v Savage [1970] 2 QB 373 Long user may establish a prescriptive easement where the user began against the fee simple owner, even though the servient land was subsequently let during…	5