Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent)
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1966 |
| Date | 1966 |
| Year | 1966 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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190 cases
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Knauer (Widower and Administrator of the Estate of Sally Ann Knauer) v Ministry of Justice
...date would not involve a departure from those previous decisions, and therefore did not require the appellant to rely on the Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent) [1966] 1 WLR 1234, whereby the House of Lords declared that it could depart from its previous decisions. This contention rest......
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The Companies Act (2023 Revision) and HQP Corporation Ltd (in Official Liquidation)
...binding effect of precedent than does the House of Lords, it is in no position on a question of English law to invoke the Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent) [1966] 1 W.L.R. 1234 of July 1966 pursuant to which the House has assumed the power to depart in certain circumstances from a pr......
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The Companies Act (2023 Revision) and HQP Corporation Ltd (in official liquidation)
...than does the House of Lords, it is in no position on a question of English law to invoke the Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent) [1966] 1 W.L.R. 1234 of July 1966 pursuant to which the House has assumed the power to depart in certain circumstances from a previous decision of the House......
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R Ats. Thorpe v Molyneaux
...of law. That this is so is borne out by the manner of its abolition by the House of Lords in the “Note” of July 1966, reported at [1966] 3 All E.R. 77 and [1966] 1 W.L.R. 1234. (And see Salmond's Jurisprudence, 3rd. Edition (1970) p. 52). It cannot be said to be part of the common law of ......
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4 firm's commentaries
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2021 Year in Review - Civil Fraud
...challenge, and, in the right circumstances, we may see aspects of the decision revisited once again.1 [2021] UKSC 24 2 [2007] UKHL 213 [1966] 1 WLR 1234 4 (2018) 134 LQR 695 [2008] UKHL 19 © 2022 Akin Gum p Strauss Hauer & Feld 72021 Year in Review - Civil Fra udLeeds City Council and Newha......
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A Restrictive Interpretation?
...test. This test, which emanates from the majority speeches in the House of Lords in Esso Petroleum Ltd v Harper's Garage Southport Ltd [1966] 1 WLR 1234, focusses on whether, in entering the covenant, the covenantor was giving up a pre-existing freedom. If, prior to giving the covenant, it ......
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If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It - Contract Interpretation After Chartbrook v Persimmon
...for many years and several times affirmed by the House. There is power to do so under the Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent) [1966] 1 WLR 1234. But that was intended, as Lord Reid said in R v. National Insurance Comrs, Ex p Hudson [1972] AC 944, 966, to be applied only in a small numbe......
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Divergence On The Proximity Test For "Nervous Shock"' Will It Last?
...[2013] EWCA Civ 194. 9. ibid para.93. 10. London Street Tramways v London County Council [1898] AC 375. 11. The Practice Statement [1966] 3 All ER 77. 12. Séamus Henchy, Precedent in the Irish Supreme Court, Modern Law Review, Volume 25 Issue 5, September 13. ibid 15. 14. [2015] IESC 31. 15......
28 books & journal articles
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ENLARGED PANELS IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF SINGAPORE
...134. 110 Pursuant to the Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent) [1994] 2 SLR 689, similar to that issued by the House of Lords at [1966] 1 WLR 1234 and now applicable in the UK Supreme Court: Austin v Southwark London Borough Council [2011] 1 AC 355 at [24]–[25]; UK Supreme Court Practice ......
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Cases referred to in 1983
...89 SCt. 1944 L.Ed 2nd 491. 495 Powell v. McCormack 395 U.S. 486. 318 CASES REFERRED TO IN 1983 Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent) (1966) 1 W.L.R. 1234. 229 Prigg v. Pennsylvania 16 Pet. 539: US Sup. Ct. Reports 1060 L.E.D. 1st series 229 Queen ex-parte Ekpenoa v. Ozogula II 1962 All N.......
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Table of Cases
...and Citation) CA, Lord Woolf CJ, 11 January 2001, (2001) The Times , 16 January 2001 102 Practice Statement (HL: Judicial Precedent) [1966] 1 WLR 1234, [1966] 3 All ER 77, [1966] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 151 7 Prenn v Simmonds [1971] 1 WLR 1381, [1971] 3 All ER 237, (1971) 115 SJ 654, HL 114 Price v C......
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The legal and commercial frameworks
...by its own decisions, unless the court thinks it is right to depart from a previous decision: practice Statement ( Judicial precedent) [1966] 1 WLr 1234. See also Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd [2009] 1 aC 1101 at 1120–1121 [41], per Lord Hofmann. 69 Goodson v Richardson (1874) LR 9 C......
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