Past Consideration in UK Law

  • Pao on v Lau Yiu Long
    • Privy Council
    • 1979
  • Dorset Yacht Company Ltd v Home Office
    • House of Lords
    • 06 May 1970
    ... ... Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause: It is ... They were of course aware from a number of leading cases that in the past the Courts had from time to time recognised new duties and new grounds of ... ...
  • R v Hanson; R v Gilmore; R v Pickstone
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 22 March 2005
    ... ... 101(3), the judge may, among other factors, take into consideration the degree of similarity between the previous conviction and the offence ... judge may also take into consideration the respective gravity of the past and present offences. He or she must always consider the strength of the ... ...
  • Fellowes & Son v Fisher
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 02 May 1975
    ... ... questions of law which call for detailed argument and mature consideration. These are matters to be dealt wit hat the trial." ... 29 ... that "of the thousand or so passing off oases there have been in the past decade all (or virtually all) of them were 'decided' on motion." See The ... ...
  • Istel (AT & T) Ltd v Tully
    • House of Lords
    • 20 July 1992
    ... ... civil proceedings as an archaic and unjustifiable survival from the past when the court directs the production of relevant documents and requires ... of documents but those days are surely past and this consideration cannot apply in the context of a civil action. I therefore associate ... ...
  • Heil v Rankin
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 June 2000
    ... ... A matter for specific consideration was "the award of damages for pain and suffering and other forms of ... the amount of the award by juries than would have occurred in the past. This is in part to assist in achieving consistency. It is also a ... ...
  • R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Sivakumaran
    • House of Lords
    • 16 December 1987
    ... ... and Nationality Act 1952, so as to be eligible for consideration for asylum as a refugee under section 208(a) of the Act, the alien need ... Consideration of what had happened in the past was material for the purpose of assessing the prospects for the future ... ...
  • Re Nortel GmbH ((in Administration)) and related companies
    • Supreme Court
    • 24 July 2013
    ... ... would be directly affected by the regulatory action under consideration (a 'warning notice'), (b) those persons to have an opportunity to ... FSD regime could be said to be some sort of indirect liability for past wages of employees, as pensions are often treated as deferred pay ... ...
  • R v Liverpool Corpn.ex parte Liverpool Taxi Fleet Operators' Association
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 February 1972
    ... ... I have no doubt they …. certainly could take into consideration the number of cabs which were already licensed, so that there would not be ... whether there should be more licences Issued in the futurethan in the past or whether the present grave unemployment position on Merseyside is a ... ...
  • Woolwich Equitable Building Society v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
    • House of Lords
    • 20 July 1992
    ... ... into an offence as examining justices is of opinion, on consideration of the evidence and of any statement of the accused, that there is ... a petition of right seeking repayment of the sums paid in the past years. Morgan v. Palmer, Steele v. Williams and Hooper v. Exeter ... ...
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