Earlier reported cases judgments 1980

Date	Case	Cited by
17 Dec 1980	Whitehouse v Jordan [1981] 1 WLR 246 A medical professional is negligent if conduct falls below the standard of an ordinarily skilled practitioner professing the relevant skill and acting with…	26
16 Dec 1980	Jelley v Iliffe [1981] Fam 128 For an application by a dependant under Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, section 1(3) provides the exhaustive meaning of being…	3
15 Dec 1980	Nickerson v Barraclough [1981] Ch 426 A way of necessity rests on an implication from a grant and its surrounding circumstances, rather than on public policy. Public policy does not ordinarily…	7
11 Dec 1980	National Carriers Ltd v Panalpina (Northern) Ltd [1981] AC 675 The doctrine of frustration can apply to a lease, although successful cases will be exceedingly rare. A leasehold estate does not place the transaction outside…	29
11 Dec 1980	Midland Bank Trust Co Ltd v Green [1981] AC 513 An unregistered estate contract created after the commencement of the Land Charges Act 1925 is void against a purchaser of a legal estate for money or money’s…	15
21 Nov 1980	Thomas Bates and Son Ltd v Wyndham’s (Lingerie) Ltd [1981] 1 WLR 505 Rectification may be granted where convincing evidence establishes a shared intention which the executed instrument fails to record, and one party discovers…	41
17 Jul 1980	R v Secretary for the Home Department, Ex parte Zamir (Zamir v Secretary of State for the Home Department) [1980] AC 930 An immigration officer’s decision that leave to enter was obtained by deception is an administrative decision. A reviewing court determines whether evidence…	4
10 Jul 1980	Fothergill v Monarch Airlines Ltd [1981] AC 251 An international convention incorporated into domestic law must be construed purposively, in its international setting and on broad principles of general…	76
3 Jul 1980	In re Racal Communications Ltd (In re a Company (No 00996 of 1979), In re A) [1981] AC 374 An unqualified statutory provision that a High Court judge’s decision is not appealable excludes appeals on questions of law as well as fact. The Court of…	23
19 Jun 1980	William’s & Glyn’s Bank Ltd v Boland (Williams & Glyn’s Bank Ltd v Brown) [1981] AC 487 Under section 70(1)(g) of the Land Registration Act 1925, a person with rights in registered land who is physically present there is in actual occupation. The…	27
30 Apr 1980	Kennaway v Thompson [1981] QB 88 Where a continuing actionable nuisance substantially interferes with the use and enjoyment of land, an injunction is ordinarily the appropriate remedy. Damages…	6
17 Apr 1980	Macarthys Ltd v Smith [1981] QB 180 Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome confers a right to equal pay for equal work even where the woman and her male comparator were employed successively rather…	9
6 Mar 1980	Inland Revenue Comrs v McMullen [1981] AC 1 A trust which promotes the physical education and development of pupils at schools and universities may be exclusively charitable for the advancement of…	6
14 Feb 1980	Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [1980] AC 827 An exclusion or limitation clause is not automatically deprived of effect by a fundamental or repudiatory breach. Its application to any breach depends on the…	90
14 Feb 1980	Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd [1980] 1 WLR 277 Repudiation is determined objectively from the whole course of a party’s conduct and its impact on the other contracting party. The conduct must clearly…	38
7 Feb 1980	Bushell v Secretary of State for the Environment [1981] AC 75 Where legislation requires a local inquiry but prescribes no procedure, the minister and inspector have a wide discretion constrained by a duty of fairness.…	39