Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent)
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1966 |
| Date | 1966 |
| Year | 1966 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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...may simply not have turned their minds to the matter. 148 In circumstances where the point was not argued in G v G, the Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent) [1966] 1 WLR 1234, concerning the departure of the Supreme Court from its earlier decisions, has no application. On the present app......
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... ... This teleological approach is supported by later judicial consideration, including in the UK, and by the position adopted by the UK ... precedents, or one of the House of Lords, in accordance with the Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent) [1966] 1 WLR 1234 ... A similar power was ... ...
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R v Shivpuri
... ... 170(1)(b) - Criminal Attempts Act 1981 ( c. 47 ) , s. 1 - Judicial PrecEdent - House of Lords decisions - Power to overrule previous ... having drugs and under caution he typed his own confession statement and stated that he very deeply suspected that the substance was heroin ... from the present appeal, would be departed from under the Practice Statement (post, pp. 1000E–F , 1001G–H ) ... Anderton v. Ryan ... ...
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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......
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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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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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The Need to Kill Off Zombie Law
...that decisions will take86. RvC[2004] EWCA Crim 292; [2004] 1 WLR 2098 [10]–[17].87. Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent) [1966] 1 WLR 1234; (1986) 83 Cr App R 191 HL (and applicable to the SupremeCourt).88. Jogee [2016] UKSC 8 [85]. The case does not stand alone, for example RvHowe [198......
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