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Earlier reported cases judgments, 1978

10 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
1 Dec 1978	Pascoe v Turner [1979] 1 WLR 431 An informal promise to give land does not itself perfect a gift or establish a constructive trust. A proprietary estoppel may nevertheless arise where the…	7
28 Nov 1978	In re Osoba, decd (Osoba v Osoba) [1979] 1 WLR 247 Where a will gives a whole fund, especially residue, to named beneficiaries for purposes such as maintenance or education, the stated purpose is ordinarily…
15 Nov 1978	Quennell v Maltby [1979] 1 WLR 318 A mortgagee’s rights and powers are vested for the protection and enforcement of the security. The court will not order possession where a mortgage transferee…	10
2 Nov 1978	Saif Ali v Sydney Mitchell & Co [1980] AC 198 A barrister’s immunity from negligence for work outside court is confined to work so intimately connected with the conduct of the cause in court that it is…	48
2 Nov 1978	Pickett v British Rail Engineering Ltd [1980] AC 136 A claimant whose life has been tortiously shortened may recover damages for earnings lost during the years in which the claimant would probably have worked but…	27
5 Oct 1978	Dixon v British Broadcasting Corpn [1979] QB 546 For the purposes of the unfair-dismissal provisions, employment is for a fixed term where the contract specifies a definite period, even if it may be…	1
14 Jul 1978	Pearlman v Keepers and Governors of Harrow School [1979] QB 56 A statutory provision making a county court’s determination final and conclusive does not protect a purported determination made outside the court’s…	7
24 May 1978	Cookson v Knowles [1979] AC 556 In a normal fatal accident claim, dependency damages should be divided into pre-trial loss and future loss. Pre-trial loss carries interest for the period from…	28
6 Apr 1978	R v Camplin (Director of Public Prosecutions v Camplin) [1978] AC 705 Under section 3 of the Homicide Act 1957, provocation requires both an actual loss of self-control and provocation sufficient to make a reasonable person react…	11
28 Feb 1978	Pearce v Woodall Duckham Ltd [1978] 1 WLR 832 For corporation tax, a trader may adopt a proper, commercially justified and accepted accounting basis for valuing work in progress on long-term contracts.…