McCall v Abelesz

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1974
CourtDivisional Court
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5 cases
  • Drane v Evangelou
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 November 1977
    ...punished, now by the criminal law. But it can also be punished by the civil law by an award of exemplary damages. In the recent case of McCall v, Abelesz (1976) 1 Queen's Bench 585 it was held that the provisions of the Act of 1965 against harassment only created a criminal offence: but I s......
  • British Associated ports v Transport & General workers Union
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 7 June 1989
    ...in a specified manner, we take it to be a general rule that performance cannot be enforced in any other manner". Shaw L.J. in McCall v. Abelesz [1976] Q.B. 585 set the conditions to be satisfied as requiring a defined duty owed to the plaintiff within a class of persons for whose benefit th......
  • Island Records Ltd, ex parte
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 March 1978
    ...It seems to me to be beyond contention that it falls within the scope of the later decision. A similar problem fell to be considered in McCall v. Abelesz (1976) 1 Queen's Bench 585 in regard to harassment by a landlord in contravention of section 30 of the Bent Act 1965. I ventured there in......
  • London & Harrogate Securities Ltd v Pitts
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 8 July 1976
    ...Co, Ltd, (1925) 2 King's Bench 852, at page 840. This is a passage which was recently cited in the judgment of Lord Justice Ormrod in Mc Call v. Abeiess (1976) 2 Weekly Law Reports 151. What Lord Justice Atkin said was this; "In my opinion when an Act imposes a duty of commission or omissio......
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