Judicial Notice in UK Law

Leading Cases
  • Pepper (Inspector of Taxes) v Hart
    • House of Lords
    • 26 November 1992

    The days have long passed when the courts adopted a strict constructionist view of interpretation which required them to adopt the literal meaning of the language. The courts now adopt a purposive approach which seeks to give effect to the true purpose of legislation and are prepared to look at much extraneous material that bears upon the background against which the legislation was enacted.

  • British Railways Board v Herrington
    • House of Lords
    • 16 February 1972

    This is a legitimate tactical move under our adversarial system of litigation. But a defendant who adopts it cannot complain if the court draws from the facts which have been disclosed all reasonable inferences as to what are the facts which the defendant has chosen to withhold.

    A court may take judicial notice that railway lines are regularly patrolled by linesmen and gangers. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, it is entitled to infer that one or more of them in the course of several weeks noticed what was plain for all to see. Anyone of common sense would realise the danger that the state of the fence so close to the live rail created for little children coming to the meadow to play.

  • Farrell v Alexander
    • House of Lords
    • 24 June 1976

  • Commonwealth Shipping Representative v P. & O. Branch Service
    • House of Lords
    • 14 December 1922

    Judicial notice refers to facts, which a judge can be called upon to receive and to act upon, either from his general knowledge of them, or from inquiries to be made by himself for his own information from sources, to which it is proper for him to refer.

  • Nabeel Ahsan v The Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 December 2017

    She could also, and other things being equal should, exercise any relevant future discretion, if necessary "outside the Rules", on the basis that the appellant had in fact had leave to remain in the relevant period notwithstanding that formally that leave remained invalidated.

  • Salomon v Commissioners of Customs and Excise
    • Court of Appeal
    • 26 October 1966

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Legislation
  • Investigatory Powers Act 2016
    • UK Non-devolved
    • Friday January 01, 2016
    ... ... ; to establish the Investigatory Powers Commissioner and other Judicial Commissioners and make provision about them and other oversight ... for the retention of certain communications data in pursuance of a notice, ... ...
  • Nationality and Borders Act 2022
    • UK Non-devolved
    • Saturday January 01, 2022
    ... ... 10: Notice of decision to deprive a person of citizenship ... judicial review proceedings, or (in Scotland) an application to the supervisory ... ...
  • European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018
    • UK Non-devolved
    • Monday January 01, 2018
    ... ... reporting period that the Joint Committee has been provided with notice under Article 169(1) of the withdrawal agreement (notice concerning the ... Power to make provision about judicial notice and admissibility ... ...
  • Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014
    • Scotland
    • Wednesday January 01, 2014
    ... ... in relation to tribunals; to provide for assistants to the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland; and for connected purposes ... mentioned in subsection (3) may resign at any time by giving notice to that effect to the Scottish Ministers ... ...
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