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Leading cases by topic

• The Hannah Blumenthal [1983] 1 AC 854
• Gibson v Manchester City Council [1979] 1 WLR 294
• Centrovincial Estates plc v Merchant Assurance Co Ltd [1983] Com LR 158
• Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/2334) Reg 24
• Hudson, ‘Retraction of Letters of Acceptance’ (1966) 82 Law Quarterly Review 169

• Hamer v. Sidway, 124 N.Y. 538, 27 N.E. 256 (N.Y. 1891),
• Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, 222 N.Y. 88, 118 N.E. 214 (1917)
• Cook v Wright (1869) 1 B&S 559
• Re McArdle [1951] Ch 669
• Ward v Byham [1956] 1 WLR 496
• Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd
• White v Jones
• Hanson v Royden
• Hartley v Ponsonby
• Collins v Godefrey
• Glasbrook Ltd v Glamorgan County Council [1925] AC 270
• Arrale v Costain Civil Engineering Ltd [1976] 1 Lloyd's Rep 98
• Simon Container Machinery Ltd v Emba Machinery AB
• Sibree v Tripp

• Tweddle v Atkinson (1861) 121 ER 762
• Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre v Selfridge & Co Ltd [1915] AC 847
• DeCicco v. Schweizer, 117 N.E. 807 (1917)
• Smith and Snipes Hall Farm Ltd v River Douglas Catchment Board [1949] 2 KB 500
• Beswick v Beswick [1967] UKHL 2
• Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction [1980] 1 All ER 571
• Linden Gardens Trust Ltd v Lenesta Sludge Disposals [1994] 1 AC 85
• Henderson v Merrett Syndicates Ltd
• White v Jones
• Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd

• Parker v South Eastern Railway Company (1877) 2 CPD 416
• Thompson v London, Midland and Scottish Railway Co [1930] 1 KB 41
• Olley v Marlborough Court [1949] 1 KB 532

• Hollier v Rambler Motors Ltd [1972] 1 All ER 399
• Canada Steamship Lines v R [1952] AC 192

• Curtis v Chemical Cleaning and Dyeing Co [1951] 1 KB 805
• McCutcheon v David MacBrayne Ltd [1964] 1 WLR 125

• Paragon Finance plc v Nash [2002] 1 WLR 685

• Raffles v Wichelhaus (1864) 2 H & C906; 159 ER 375
• McRae v Commonwealth Disposals Commission (1951) 84 CLR 377
• Grist v Bailey [1967] Ch 532
• Nicholson & Venn v Smith-Marriot (1947) 177 L.T. 189
• Associated Japanese Bank (International) Ltd v Credit du Nord [1989] 1 WLR 255
• Brennan v Bolt Burdon [2004] 3 WLR 1321
• Galloway v Galloway
• Scott v Coulson
• Res Sua, where the subject matter already belongs to oneself; and Res Extincta, where subject matter does not exist
• Cooper v Phibbs
• Sale of Goods Act 1979 s 6
• Notcutt

• Boone v Eyre (1777) 1 H Bl 273
• Jackson v Union Marine Insurance
• Bwllfa and Merthyr Dare Steam Collieries (1891) Ltd v Pontypridd Waterworks Co [1903] AC 426
• British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co Ltd v Underground Electric Railways Co of London [1912] AC 673
• Maredelanto Compania Naviera SA v Bergbau-Handel GmbH
• Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd
• Vitol SA v Norelf Ltd
• Maredelanto Compania Naviera SA v Bergbau-Handel GmbH [1971] 1 QB 164
• Rice (t/a Garden Guardian) v Great Yarmouth Borough Council (26 July 2000) The Times
• BS&N Ltd v Micado Shipping Ltd (The Seaflower (No 2) [2000] 2 All ER (Comm) 169
• Golden Strait Corporation v Nippon Yusen Kubishka Kaisha [2007] UKHL 12

• Directive 98/27, Injustions for the protection of consumers' interests, OJ L 166 (11.6.1998) 51
• Law Commission, Report 292 (2005)
• Freiburger Kommunalbauten GmbH Baugesellschaft & Co KG v Hofstetter [2004] ECR I-3403

• Sale of Goods Act 1979 s 49
• Law of Property Act 1925 s 49
• Consumer Credit Act 1974 ss 90, 91, 129

• Cutter v Powell (1795) 101 ER 573
• Sumpter v Hedges [1898] 1 QB 673
• Jacob & Youngs v Kent 230 NY 239 (1921)
• Bolton v Mahadeva [1972] 1 WLR 1009

• Robinson v Harman (1848) 1 Ex Rep 850
• Addis v Gramophone Co Ltd [1909] AC 488
• Jackson v Horizon Holidays Ltd [1975] 3 All ER 92

• Victoria Laundry v Newman [1949] 2 KB 528
• Koufos v C Czarnikow Ltd or The Heron II [1969] 1 AC 350
• Parsons (Livestock) Ltd v Uttley Ingham & Co Ltd [1978] 1 QB 791
• South Australia Asset Management Co v York Montague [1996] 3 All ER 365
• HLA Hart and Tony Honoré, Causation in the law (1959)

• Nocton v Lord Ashburton
• Williams v Natural Life Health Foods
• Spring v Guardian Assurance plc
• Caparo Industries plc v Dickman (working for Touche Ross!)
• Ultramares Corp v Touche
• New Natura Brevium
• White v Jones

• Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale
• Philip Collins Ltd v Davis

• Dimmock v Hallett (1866-67) LR 2 Ch App 21
• Edgington v Fitzmaurice
• With v O'Flanagan [1936] Ch 575
• Howard Marine & Dredging Co v A Ogden & Sons (Excavations) Ltd [1978] QB 574
• Candler v Crane, Christmas & Co
• Customs and Excise Commissioners v Barclays Bank [2006] UKHL 28, 81

Mistaken identity

• C Macmillan, ‘Rogues, Swindlers and Cheats: the Development of Mistake of Identity in English Contract Law’ [2005] CLJ 711
• Law Reform Committee, ‘Transfer of Title to Chattels’ (1966) Cmnd 2598 disagreed with Devlin LJ but said that contracts should be voidable, not void.

• Consumer Credit Act 1974 ss 67, 68, 140A, 140B
• Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 r 7

Default terms

• remoteness
• impossibility

Mandatory terms

• mutual trust and confidence
• fairness of exchange

• Blyth v Birmingham Waterworks Co (1856) 11 Ex 781
• Nettleship v Weston [1971] 2 QB 691
• King v Sussex Ambulance NHS Trust [2002] EWCA Civ 953
• Gough v Thorne [1966] 1 WLR 1387
• Vellino v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester [2002] EWCA Civ 1249
• Re Polemis & Furniss, Withy & Co Ltd [1921] 3 KB 560
• Scott v Shepherd (1772) 95 ER 525
• Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd [2002] UKHL 22
• Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945
• Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978

• Bamford v Turnley (1862) 3 B&S 67
• Smith v The London and South Western Railway Company (1870-71) LR 6 CP 14
• Summers v Tice, 199 P 2d 1 (1948)
• Cook v Lewis [1951] SCR 830
• Environment Agency v Empress Car Co (Abertillery) Ltd [1999] 2 AC 22
• McKew v Holland & Hannan Ltd [1969] 3 All ER 1621
• Ng Chun Pui v Lee Chuen Tat [1988] RTR 298
• Bonnington Castings Ltd v Wardlaw [1956] AC 613
• McGhee v National Coal Board [1973] 1 WLR 1
• Wooldridge v Sumner [1963] 2 QB 43
• Fitzgerald v Lane [1989] AC 328
• Froom v Butcher [1976] QB 286
• Morris v Murray [1991] 2 QB 6
• Revill v Newberry [1996] QB 567, 579

• Greenland v Chaplin (1850) 5 Ex 243
• Woodley v Metropolitan District Railway Co (1877) 2 Ex D 384, volenti
• MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., 217 N.Y. 382, 111 N.E. 1050 (1916)
• Palsgraf v Long Island Railroad Co, 62 NE 99 (1928)
• United States v Carroll Towing Co 159 F 2d 169 (2d Cir. 1947)
• Glasgow Corp v Muir [1943] AC 448
• Bolton v Stone [1951] AC 850
• Wagon Mound (No 1) [1961] AC 388
• Smith v Leech Brain & Co Ltd [1961] 2 QB 405
• Wagon Mound (No 2) [1967] 1 AC 617
• Tremain v Pike [1969] 1 WLR 1556
• Sindell v Abbott Laboratories, 608 P 2d 924
• Mullin v Richards [1998] 1 WLR 1304, 1312
• Mansfield v Weetabix Ltd [1998] 1 WLR 1263, 1268
• Barker v Corus plc [2006] UKHL 20

Nuisances

• Rylands v Fletcher
• Sturges v Bridgman (1879) 11 ChD 852
• Robinson v Kilvert (1889) LR 41 ChD 88

• Turberville v Stampe (1697) 91 ER 1072
• Goldman v Hargrave [1967] 1 AC 645

• Hunter v Canary Wharf [1997] AC 655
• Cambridge Water Company v Eastern Counties Leather plc [1994] 2 AC 264
• Transco plc v Stockport MBC

• Sedleigh Denfield v O'Callaghan [1940] AC 880
• Smith v Littlewoods Organisation Ltd [1987] 1 AC 241
• Leakey v National Trust [1980] QB 485

• Miller v Jackson [1977] QB 966
• Jones v Powell (1629) 123 ER 1169
• Kennaway v Thompson [1981] QB 88
• Allen v Gulf Oil Refining Ltd [1981] AC 1001
• Wheeler v JJ Saunders Ltd [1996] Ch 19
• Marcic v Thames Water Utilities Ltd [2003] UKHL 66

Occupiers

• Wheat v E Lacon
• Ward v Tesco Stores Ltd [1976] IRLR 92
• Tedstone v Bourne Leisure Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 654

• Roles v Nathan [1963] 1 WLR 1117
• Ogwo v Taylor [1988] AC 431
• Platt v Liverpool CC [1997] CLY 4864

Employers (for safe workplace)

• Morton v William Dixon (1909) SC 807, 809
• Brown v Rolls Royce [1960] 1 WLR 210

• Stapley v Gypsum Mines [1953] AC 663
• ICI v Shatwell [1965] AC 656

Employers (vicariously)

• Turberville v Stampe (1697) 91 ER 1072
• Lister v Hesley Hall
• Williams v Natural Life Health Foods
• Cassidy v Ministry of Health [1951] 2 KB 343, 360, if you can use dismissal as a sanction for good behaviour, you are in a strong bargaining position

• Lister v Romford Ice
• O'Kelly v Trusthouse Forte

Products

• Greenman v Yuba Power Products, Inc, 59 Cal 2d 57 (1963)
• D & F Estates
• A v National Blood Authority
• Ide v ATB Sales Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 424

• Winterbottom v Wright
• Donoghue v Stevenson
• Grant v Australian Knitting Mills [1936] AC 85
• Escola v Coca Cola Bottling Co of Fresno, 24 Cal 2d 453 (1944)
• Roe v Ministry of Health [1954] 2 QB 66
• Anns v Merton LBC
• Product Liability Directive 85/374/EEC
• Consumer Protection Act 1987
• Murphy v Brentwood LBC

Animals and children

• Animals Act 1971
• Mirvahedy v Henley [2003] UKHL 16

• Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd
• Carmarthenshire CC v Lewis [1955] AC 459
• Goreley v Codd [1967] 1 WLR 19
• McCallion v Dodd [1966] NZLR 710, 727

• Mullin v Richards

Services

• Thake v Maurice - not causing damage

• Philips v Whiteley (Williams) Ltd [1938] 1 All ER 566 - causing damage
• Shakoor v Situ [2001] 1 WLR 410
• Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582
• Chester v Afshar

Customers?

• Topp v London County Bus Ltd [1993] 1 WLR 976

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