Earlier reported cases judgments 1975

Date	Case	Cited by
10 Dec 1975	Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Customs and Excise Comrs [1976] 1 WLR 1 A promotional article is not sold merely because a customer becomes contractually entitled to receive it after buying another product. In its primary legal…	1
13 Nov 1975	Heywood v Wellers [1976] QB 446 A solicitor may be liable for a client's vexation, anxiety and mental distress where protection from the source of that distress was the very object of the…	9
12 Nov 1975	Harris v Birkenhead Corpn (Pascoe Third Party: Alliance Assurance Co Ltd Fourth Party) [1976] 1 WLR 279 An occupier for liability purposes need not have physical possession. A person who has asserted an immediate legal right to enter and control premises may…	1
7 Nov 1975	Horrocks v Forray [1976] 1 WLR 230 A licence to occupy a home provided by one partner for a mistress and her child is not contractual merely because accommodation and financial support were…
17 Oct 1975	Dyson Holdings Ltd v Fox [1976] QB 503 The expression “member of the tenant’s family” in rent legislation bears its ordinary and popular meaning. That meaning may develop as social attitudes change…	4
23 Jul 1975	Crabb v Arun District Council [1976] Ch 179 Proprietary estoppel may create an enforceable interest in land and found a cause of action. An equity arises where an owner, by words or conduct, creates or…	48
21 Jul 1975	Froom v Butcher [1976] QB 286 An adult driver or front-seat passenger who fails to wear an available seat belt is ordinarily contributorily negligent if wearing it would have prevented or…	21
7 Jul 1975	Rose v Plenty [1976] 1 WLR 141 An employer may be vicariously liable where an employee performs the employer’s business in a prohibited manner. The court must identify the employee’s job…	8
30 Apr 1975	Tanner v Tanner [1975] 1 WLR 1346 Where a parent provides a home for the other parent and their children in return for the other parent giving up protected accommodation and caring for the…	3
28 Apr 1975	Eves v Eves [1975] 1 WLR 1338 A constructive trust may arise although the claimant made no financial contribution to the purchase price. It is sufficient that the legal owner led the…	12
14 Apr 1975	Burgess v Rawnsley [1975] Ch 429 A beneficial joint tenancy is severed by an agreement between the joint tenants to deal with their shares in a way that involves severance. The agreement need…	5
12 Mar 1975	Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland v Lynch [1975] AC 653 Duress may provide a complete defence to a person charged with murder as a secondary party who intentionally assisted the killing. The defence does not negate…	14
12 Mar 1975	O’Neill v O’Neill [1975] 1 WLR 1118 Under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, section 1(2)(b), the question whether a spouse could reasonably be expected to live with the respondent is prima facie…	4
5 Mar 1975	Black-Clawson International Ltd v Papierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg AG [1975] AC 591 Under section 8(1) of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933, a foreign judgment is conclusive only of the matter actually adjudicated. A…	98
5 Feb 1975	American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon Ltd [1975] AC 396 An applicant for an interlocutory injunction need not establish that success at trial is probable. The claim must disclose a serious question to be tried and a…	436