Trespass to Goods in UK Law

  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue and Another v Rossminster Ltd .; Commissioners of Inland Revenue and Another v AJR Financial Services Ltd .; Commissioners of Inland Revenue and Another v Plummer .; Commissioners of Inland Revenue and Another v Tucker,
    • House of Lords
    • 13 December 1979
    ... ... excess of power and for trespass and any aggravation can be taken into account. At some stage, which cannot ... the appellants claiming damages for wrongful interference with their goods, an injunction and delivery up of anything removed by an officer of the ... ...
  • Attorney General v Nissan
    • House of Lords
    • 11 February 1969
    ... ... of the contracting powers should seize and confiscate the ships or goods of their own subjects for contravening the said articles; and if such ... So no question of trespass arises and we were not invited to consider the case of British South ... ...
  • Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
    • House of Lords
    • 16 May 2002
    ... ... itself conversion: see section 11(3) of the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977. To constitute conversion there must be a concomitant ... If these cause damage they may give rise to claims for trespass or in negligence, but they do not constitute conversion ... 40 ... ...
  • OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 May 2007
    ... ... The claimant says that this was not only a trespass to its land and a conversion of its chattels but also the tort of unlawful ... 's statement of principle and the separate finding of trespass to the goods of the GWK company ... 25 Lord Hewart, however, made no ... ...
  • White v Withers LLP
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 October 2009
    ... ... The cause of action based on trespass to the documents seems almost to have come as a surprise to the judge when ... Mr Crystal instead concentrated his fire on trespass to goods submitting that there was a direct and immediate interference with the ... ...
  • Pritchard v Co-operative Group
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 March 2011
    ... ... : "……As a result of a serious assault, a trespass to the person, by Mr Wilkinson, her store manager, Debbie Pritchard has ... that the fact that section 11(1) of the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977 61 expressly excludes contributory negligence as a defence to ... ...
  • Columbia Pictures Inc. v Robinson
    • Chancery Division
    • 1986
    ... ... or control of or destroying or defacing or hiding … any illicit goods” ... “Illicit goods” were defined: ... “(i) Any complete or ... , sometimes described as aggravated damages, can be awarded where trespass to land or trespass to goods has been accompanied by circumstances of ... ...
  • Chic Fashions (West Wales) Ltd v Jones
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 December 1967
    ... ... The stolen goods were of various makes, including "Ian Peters", "Mornessa", "Mansfield" and ... He then sued the constable for trespass. It was argued for Price that "the warrant was to seize stolen sugar, and ... ...
  • JA Pye (Oxford) Ltd v United Kingdom (44302/02)
    • House of Lords
    • 04 July 2002
    ... ... It further provided that Mr Graham would not permit any trespass upon the land and further that he would not part with "possession" of the ... Cockburn CJ said that the defendant's storage of goods on the disputed land was not "done with the view of defeating the purpose ... ...
  • British Railways Board v Herrington
    • House of Lords
    • 16 February 1972
    ... ... Lord Goddard accurately stated the law when he said "repeated trespass of itself confers no licence … to find a licence there must be evidence ... man or child may be infringing upon another's possession of land or goods at the time he is injured and it will be no bar to his recovery if ... ...
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