Rookes v Barnard
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1961 |
| Date | 1961 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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203 cases
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J. T. Stratford & Son Ltd v Lindley
...person to break his contract. But it is still actionable for one person, in concert with others, to threaten to break his own contract. Rookes v. Barnard, 1964, 2 Weekly Law Reports, p. 269, was of the latter class. It was a very special case. There was a very unusual contract, namely, a c......
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McCarey v Associated Newspapers Ltd (No. 2)
...was the prevailing view, even up to 1963, that punitive or exemplary damages could properly be awarded. 34 Next we come to the case of Rookes v. Barnard in the House of Lords. I have the report in (1964) 2 Weekly Law Reports at page 269; the case is reported also in (1964) 1 All England Law......
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Broadway Approvals Ltd v Odhams Press Ltd (No. 2)
...that statement would have led the jury to regard themselves as free to punish the defendants for their wrongdoing. 49 In Rookes v. Barnard Lord Devlin dealt with damages in a maimer which met with the unqualified approval of the other members of the House of Lords who heard that appeal and ......
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Fielding v Variety Incorporated
...by a Judge) could mark the disapproval of the Court by awarding exemplary or punitive damages. But the House of Lords in the case of Rookes v. Barnard, 1964 Appeal Cases, page 1129, in a judgment delivered by Lord Devlin, in which the other Lords concurred, have told us that we must not giv......
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