Earlier reported cases judgments 1983

Date	Case	Cited by
7 Dec 1983	Cutts v Head [1984] Ch 290 A settlement offer made without prejudice may expressly reserve the right to disclose it after judgment on costs. This procedure extends beyond matrimonial…	50
6 Dec 1983	Rimmer v Liverpool City Council [1985] QB 1 A landowner who designs or builds premises owes persons foreseeably affected by dangerous faults of design or construction a duty to take reasonable care for…	4
24 Nov 1983	McGinlay or Titchener v British Railways Board [1983] 1 WLR 1427 An occupier’s duty under section 2(1) of the Occupiers’ Liability (Scotland) Act 1960 depends on all the circumstances and relates to the particular entrant.…	1
13 Oct 1983	R v Morris (David) (Anderton v Burnside) [1984] AC 320 For theft under section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968, appropriation requires the assumption of any one of an owner’s rights. It does not require the assumption…	1
13 Oct 1983	Davy v Spelthorne Borough Council [1984] AC 262 A common law claim for damages against a public authority may proceed by ordinary action where its essence is negligence and any public law question arises…	11
29 Jul 1983	Law v National Greyhound Racing Club Ltd [1983] 1 WLR 1302 Judicial review is confined to activities of a public nature. A domestic tribunal whose authority over participants derives solely from contract remains a…	6
27 Jul 1983	R v Eastleigh Borough Council, Ex parte Betts (Betts, Ex parte, Eastleigh Borough Council v Betts) [1983] 2 AC 613 For the referral provisions of the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977, the decisive question is whether the applicant has a local connection with the relevant…	10
26 Jul 1983	Burns v Burns [1984] Ch 317 For an unmarried couple, a court cannot redistribute a family home merely because that result appears fair, and English law recognises no general…	3
21 Jul 1983	Waite v Government Communications Headquarters [1983] 2 AC 714 For unfair dismissal purposes, a contractual retirement age is presumed to be the normal retiring age where it applies to all or nearly all employees holding…	5
30 Jun 1983	P Perl (Exporters) Ltd v Camden London Borough Council [1984] QB 342 An occupier does not ordinarily owe an adjoining occupier a duty to secure premises against trespassers who might use them to enter and damage the adjoining…	2
27 Jun 1983	C & P Haulage v Middleton [1983] 1 WLR 1461 Damages for breach of contract place the claimant, so far as money can, in the position which proper performance would have produced. Wasted expenditure may be…	7
30 Mar 1983	Duke of Westminster v Guild [1985] QB 688 A term requiring a landlord to repair retained property will not be implied into a detailed commercial lease merely because it would be reasonable or fair. The…	7
17 Mar 1983	R v Miller [1983] 2 AC 161 A person who accidentally creates a danger to another’s property may incur criminal liability by failing to counteract that danger after becoming aware of it.…	2
10 Feb 1983	R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex parte Khawaja (Khawaja, Ex parte, Khawaja v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Khera v Secretary of State for the Home Department, R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex parte Khera) [1984] AC 74 An entrant who obtains leave by a fraudulent statement or representation contrary to section 26(1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1971 is an illegal entrant if the…	96
25 Jan 1983	R v Boundary Commission for England, Ex parte Foot (Foot, Ex parte, Gateshead Borough Council, Ex parte, R v Boundary Commission for England, Ex parte Gateshead Borough Council) [1983] QB 600 An administrative inquiry is not rendered unfair merely because the investigating officer expressed an erroneous or ambiguous view of the law. The relevant…