Earlier reported cases judgments 1992

Date	Case	Cited by
10 Dec 1992	R v Warwickshire County Council, Ex parte Johnson (Johnson, Ex parte) [1993] AC 583 A price indication may become misleading when a consumer attempts to accept the continuing offer and the trader refuses to honour it. A single refusal may…
4 Dec 1992	R v Disciplinary Committee of the Jockey Club, Ex parte Aga Khan [1993] 1 WLR 909 A decision is not amenable to judicial review merely because it is made by a powerful monopolistic regulator, affects the public interest or concerns an…	19
3 Dec 1992	R v Hull University Visitor, Ex parte Page (Page, Ex parte, R v Lord President of the Privy Council, Ex parte Page) [1993] AC 682 A university visitor has exclusive authority to determine the foundation’s domestic law. A decision made within that jurisdiction cannot be quashed merely for…	20
3 Dec 1992	R v Gomez (Edwin) (Director of Public Prosecutions v Gomez) [1993] AC 442 An appropriation for the purposes of theft may occur with the owner’s consent or authorisation. Under section 3(1) of the Theft Act 1968, an assumption of any…	6
26 Nov 1992	Pepper v Hart [1993] AC 593 Where legislation is ambiguous or obscure, or its literal meaning produces an absurdity, a court may consult Parliamentary materials. The material must…	307
26 Nov 1992	Webb v Emo Air Cargo (UK) Ltd [1993] 1 WLR 49 Where existing European authority did not clearly determine whether pregnancy-related absence during the specific period for which an employee was recruited…	20
15 Oct 1992	D’Souza v Director of Public Prosecutions [1992] 1 WLR 1073 A constable may enter premises without a warrant under section 17(1)(d) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 only when pursuing a person who is…	1
31 Jul 1992	Joyce v Sengupta [1993] 1 WLR 337 A defamatory statement may also found an action for malicious falsehood. The claimant must prove falsity and malice, together with financial loss or…	14
30 Jul 1992	In re T (Adult: Refusal of Treatment) [1993] Fam 95 A capable adult has an absolute right to accept or refuse medical treatment, even where refusal is irrational or risks death. Capacity is presumed, but may be…	18
30 Jul 1992	Vince v Chief Constable of Dorset Police [1993] 1 WLR 415 Section 36(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 requires the appointment of one or more custody officers for each designated police station. It does…
28 Jul 1992	Oldham Borough Council v Attorney-General [1993] Ch 210 Section 13 of the Charities Act 1960 governs alteration of a charity’s original purposes through cy-près, not every sale of charitable land. Where the…	1
16 Jul 1992	Prudential Assurance Co Ltd v London Residuary Body [1992] 2 AC 386 A purported lease must create a term whose maximum duration is certain when it begins. A term that continues until an event which may never occur is not a…	18
22 May 1992	Barclays Bank plc v O’Brien [1993] QB 109 Where a creditor knows that a debtor’s relationship with a proposed surety creates a real likelihood of influence and reliance, equity may restrain enforcement…	5
15 May 1992	P v Nottinghamshire County Council [1992] ICR 706 An employer may reasonably accept a guilty plea or criminal conviction as establishing that the employee committed the offence. The investigative principles…	3
6 May 1992	Nestle v National Westminster Bank Plc [1993] 1 WLR 1260 A trustee must exercise the care of an ordinary prudent person investing for beneficiaries whom that person feels morally bound to provide for. Prudence…	10
24 Mar 1992	Hayden v Hayden [1992] 1 WLR 986 In assessing dependency damages for the loss of a deceased mother’s domestic services, the court must determine the child’s actual pecuniary loss by comparing…	2
18 Mar 1992	Burton v Islington Health Authority (De Martell v Merton and Sutton Health Authority) [1993] QB 204 A child born alive and disabled by negligence occurring before birth may maintain an action in negligence for damage suffered after birth. The cause of action…	4
5 Mar 1992	Norwich & Peterborough Building Society v Steed [1993] Ch 116 A plea of non est factum is confined to cases where consent is wholly absent because the signed transaction is essentially different in substance or kind from…	7
27 Feb 1992	Guild v Inland Revenue Comrs [1992] 2 AC 310 The Recreational Charities Act 1958 is not confined to trusts for the benefit of socially "deprived" classes. Facilities qualify as being "provided in the…	1
6 Feb 1992	Westminster City Council v Clarke [1992] 2 AC 288 A tenancy or licence falls within the secure-tenancy regime only if it confers exclusive possession of a dwelling-house let as a separate dwelling. The…	3
6 Feb 1992	Roy v Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Family Practitioner Committee [1992] 1 AC 624 The general requirement to use judicial review applies where an issue depends exclusively on a purely public law right. A litigant who asserts a subsisting…	22
30 Jan 1992	South Lakeland District Council v Secretary of State for the Environment [1992] 2 AC 141 Under section 277(8) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971, preserving the character or appearance of a conservation area does not require every…	72