Trespass to Goods in UK Law

  • Correspondence
    • No. 26-3, May 1963
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... type, following a sentence which states that where a trespass occurs involuntarily in the sense of being an inevitable ... there is no liability for an accidental trespass to goods. I wonder in what sense Mr. Chapman has misunderstood this ... ...
  • Police Right of Entry to Private Premises
    • No. 69-2, April 1996
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ... ... First, she claimed against the solicitor in trespass both to land and goods. Second, she claimed against Mr McLeod and ... ...
  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • No. 73-3, January 2000
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ... ... in good faith,there was no defence in the Act to an action for trespass to goods basedon that unjustified seizure.The court noted the Court of ... ...
  • A New‐Found Haltday: the Eighteenth Report of the Law Reform Committee (Conversion and Detinue)
    • No. 35-2, March 1972
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... new tort which will supersede conversion, detinue and trespass to chat- tels.,’ The new tort, it is .suggested, could ... the common law relating to detinue and trespass to goods, but to retain the existing law relating to conversion ... ...
  • ADF Offensive Cyberspace Operations and Australian Domestic Law: Proprietary and Constitutional Implications
    • No. 47-4, December 2019
    • Federal Law Review
    An Australian Offensive Cyberspace Operations (OCO) capability has emerged as an important sub-component of national power. While significant academic literature exists concerning OCO’s place withi...
    ... ... Without lawful excuse, it could beconstrued as a state trespass against the possessory rights of the persons possessing those ... that if a cyberspace intrusion can be construed as a trespass to goods, the ADF isrequired to have a proprietary right over a target device to ... ...
  • Exemplary Damages After Camelford
    • No. 57-1, January 1994
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... , and in Wilkes v Wood" such an award was made for trespass to land. *Lecturer in Law, University of Leeds. I See Lord ... torts: seduction of a child,I5 assault,16 trespass to goods,” breach of copyright,18 slander,19 libe120 and private ... ...
  • In the Irish Courts
    • No. 16-2, April 1952
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    ... ... IS AN ASSAULT A TRESPASS? A.-G. (Flynn) v. Hill The case stated for the opinion of the Supreme ... act which constitutes a trespass to lands, a trespass to goods, or a trespass to the person", even though "in popular language its ... ...
  • NOTES OF CASES
    • No. 32-4, July 1969
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... British contingent had damaged, destroyed and looted his goods and chattels and caused other damage to the hotel; these ... of contract, and that he was entitled to damages for trespass to goods. In his defence, the Attorney-General claimed inter ... ...
  • R v Brown: Consensual Harm and the Public Interest
    • No. 57-1, January 1994
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... January 19941 R v Brown defamation, false imprisonment, trespass to goods, breach of copyrightg3 and private nuisance for ... ...
  • Court of Criminal Appeal
    • No. 14-2, April 1950
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    ... ... have had guilty intent if the intention was at once to hand the goods over to the Police-then that would not be a felonious receipt. The ... taking is wrongful though not felonious, that is to say, is trespass, then, if the taker subsequently alters his mind and appropriates the ... ...
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