Earlier reported cases judgments 1973

Date	Case	Cited by
20 Dec 1973	Hunt v Broome (Broome v Director of Public Prosecutions) [1974] AC 587 The statutory immunity for peaceful picketing protects attendance at or near the specified place when undertaken only for a permitted purpose. It does not…
19 Dec 1973	Langston v Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers [1974] 1 WLR 185 Under the Industrial Relations Act 1971, a complaint under section 33(3)(a) about pressure on an employer to penalise a non-union worker must be brought by the…	2
21 Nov 1973	R v Smith (Roger) (Haughton v Smith) [1975] AC 476 A person cannot be guilty of attempting a substantive offence where, even if every intended act were completed, the resulting conduct could not constitute that…	4
13 Nov 1973	British Crane Hire Corpn Ltd v Ipswich Plant Hire Ltd [1975] QB 303 Terms may be incorporated into an oral contract by the parties’ common understanding, even where a later printed form remains unsigned. This may occur where…	6
5 Nov 1973	Holwell Securities Ltd v Hughes [1974] 1 WLR 155 The postal acceptance rule may complete acceptance on posting where use of the post was contemplated. It is displaced, however, where an option requires…	2
25 Jul 1973	Ray v Sempers (Director of Public Prosecutions v Ray, Sempers v Ray) [1974] AC 370 A restaurant customer who honestly intends to pay when ordering may nevertheless commit deception if, after deciding not to pay, he continues to conduct…	11
26 Jun 1973	Norwich Pharmacal Co v Customs and Excise Comrs [1974] AC 133 An innocent third party may be ordered to disclose the identity of a wrongdoer where, through no fault of its own, it became sufficiently involved in the…	100
14 Jun 1973	Race Relations Board v Applin (Applin v Race Relations Board) [1975] AC 259 A person who habitually opens a private home to an unselected class may be providing facilities or services to a section of the public within section 2(1) of…	3
11 Jun 1973	R v Governor of Pentonville Prison, Ex parte Azam (Azam, Ex parte, Azam v Secretary of State for Home Department, Khera, Ex parte, Khera v Secretary of State for Home Department, R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex parte Khera, R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex parte Sidhu, Sidhu, Ex parte, Sidhu v Secretary of State for the Home Department) [1974] AC 18 A person who clandestinely landed in breach of the former immigration legislation was an “illegal entrant” under the Immigration Act 1971. In that context…	3
18 May 1973	Donnelly v Joyce [1974] QB 454 An injured person's loss includes the need for care or other provision caused by the wrongdoing. That loss is valued at the proper and reasonable cost of…	11
16 Apr 1973	Cheng v Governor of Pentonville Prison [1973] AC 931 For an offence to be of a political character under section 3(1) of the Extradition Act 1870, the offender’s political purpose must be directed against the…	3
16 Apr 1973	Chapman v Goonvean and Rostowrack China Clay Co Ltd [1973] 1 WLR 678 Under the Redundancy Payments Act 1965, redundancy depends on whether dismissal is attributable wholly or mainly to an actual or expected cessation or…	1
4 Apr 1973	Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd v L Schuler AG (Schuler (L) AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd) [1974] AC 235 A contractual term described as a condition does not invariably permit termination for every breach. The court must ascertain the parties’ intention from the…	80
22 Mar 1973	Rouse v Squires (F V Carroll & Sons Ltd Third Party) [1973] QB 889 A driver who negligently creates a dangerous highway obstruction may remain a cause of a later accident despite another driver’s intervening negligence.…	6
19 Feb 1973	O’Brien v Robinson [1973] AC 912 A landlord’s covenant to keep residential premises in repair is an undertaking to perform necessary repair work, rather than an absolute guarantee that the…	5
8 Feb 1973	Wachtel v Wachtel [1973] Fam 72 When determining financial provision following divorce, ordinary matrimonial misconduct should not reduce an award. Conduct affects provision only where it is…	11
1 Feb 1973	Pickin v British Railways Board (British Railways Board v Pickin) [1974] AC 765 The courts must construe and give effect to every Act of Parliament, whether public or private. They cannot investigate its passage, alleged procedural…	10