Earlier reported cases judgments 1982

Date	Case	Cited by
16 Dec 1982	R v Barnet London Borough Council, Ex p Nilish Shah (Abdullah v Shropshire County Council, Akbarali v Brent London Borough Council, Jitendra Shah, Ex parte, Jitendra Shah v Barnet London Borough Council, Nilish Shah, Ex parte, R v Barnet London Borough Council, Ex parte Jitendra Shah, R v Barnet London Borough Council, Ex parte Shabpar, R v Brent London Borough Council, Ex parte Akbarali, R v Inner London Education Authority, Ex parte Ablack, R v Shropshire County Council, Ex parte Abdullah, Shabpar, Ex parte, Shabpar v Barnet London Borough Council) [1983] 2 AC 309 A person is ordinarily resident where they habitually and normally live from choice and for a settled purpose as part of the regular order of life. The purpose…	83
25 Nov 1982	Cocks v Thanet District Council [1983] 2 AC 286 A statutory housing duty enforceable in private law arises only after the housing authority has made the public law decision which constitutes its condition…	16
18 Nov 1982	Mandla (Sewa Singh) v Dowell Lee [1983] 2 AC 548 A group has “ethnic origins” under the Race Relations Act 1976 when it regards itself, and is regarded by others, as a distinct community founded on a long…	11
29 Sep 1982	George Mitchell (Chesterhall) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [1983] QB 284 A fundamental breach does not automatically prevent reliance on an exclusion or limitation clause. The contract must be construed as a whole to determine…	2
30 Jul 1982	Manuel v Attorney-General (Noltcho v Attorney-General) [1983] Ch 77 At the strike-out stage, a claim should be stopped only if it is plainly ill-founded in English law and bound to fail at trial. Under section 4 of the Statute…	1
22 Jul 1982	Chief Constable of the North Wales Police v Evans [1982] 1 WLR 1155 Judicial review supervises the legality of a decision-making process. It does not authorise the court to substitute its view of the merits for that of the…	12
15 Jul 1982	Junior Books Ltd v Veitchi Co Ltd [1983] 1 AC 520 A specialist subcontractor may owe a building owner a duty of care in respect of pure economic loss caused by defects in the subcontractor’s own work. Such a…	12
8 Jul 1982	R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal, Ex parte Alexander (Alexander v Immigration Appeal Tribunal) [1982] 1 WLR 1076 Immigration rules are policy guidance and should be construed sensibly, according to the natural meaning of their language, rather than with the strictness…	5
6 May 1982	McLoughlin v O’Brian [1983] 1 AC 410 A negligent defendant may be liable for a recognisable psychiatric illness suffered by a person of normal fortitude through the injury of a close relative.…	44
22 Apr 1982	Garland v British Rail Engineering Ltd [1983] 2 AC 751 Domestic legislation enacted after the United Kingdom entered an international treaty should, so far as its language reasonably permits, be construed…	17
22 Apr 1982	Grant v Borg [1982] 1 WLR 638 Under section 24(1)(b)(i) of the Immigration Act 1971, knowingly remaining beyond a limited leave is a once-and-for-all offence committed only on the day after…	1
1 Apr 1982	Universe Tankships Inc of Monrovia v International Transport Workers Federation (The Universal Sentinal) [1983] 1 AC 366 Economic duress makes a transaction voidable, and supports restitution, where apparent consent was induced by pressure which the law does not regard as…	14
30 Mar 1982	Bernard v Josephs [1982] Ch 391 Joint names do not, without more, establish equal beneficial shares in a home. The court must infer the parties’ common intention from the conveyance, their…	8
25 Mar 1982	R v Heron (R v Thomas) [1982] 1 WLR 451 The offence of falsely making or counterfeiting a current gold or silver coin under section 1(1)(a) of the Coinage Offences Act 1936 was an offence of basic…