Author Archives: dls
Lloyd -v- Svenby; QBD 27-Feb-2006
The two claimants sought title to a car registration plate and to a chassis number. They were to be applied to historic racing cars.Held: The power to assign registration marks lay with the Secretary of State. Any legal rights rested … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Road Traffic
Weight Watchers (UK) Ltd -v- Revenue & Customs; VDT 8-Mar-2007
VDT Single or multiple supplies – Customers receiving handbook and literature on registration with weighing and talks at meeting for registration fee and meeting fee – Registered customers entitled to attend and weigh-in at weekly meetings for fee at each … Continue reading
Filed under VAT
Lloyd -v- Bow Street Magistrates Court; Admn 8-Oct-2003
The defendant had been convicted and made subect to a confiscation order in 1996. A final order for enforcement was made in late 2002. The defendant said the delay in the enforcement proceedings was a breach of his right to … Continue reading
Filed under Criminal Practice, Human Rights
Savage -v- South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; QBD 21-Dec-2006
The claimant’s daughter had died after walking out of a mental health ward and being knocked down. She sought damages alleging negligence and in infringement of her daughter’s right to life.Held: Negligence amounting to a breach of the right to … Continue reading
Filed under Health, Human Rights, Professional Negligence
Kin-Hung -v- The Queen; PC 11-Nov-1996
(Hong Kong) Despite the judge’s sympathetic directions as to the inadeqacy of the prosecution case, the defendant was convicted of two rapes.Held: The test whether each member of an appellate court considers the verdicts ‘unsafe or unsatisfactory’ is part of … Continue reading
Filed under Commonwealth, Criminal Practice
Lloyd -v- Director of Public Prosecutions; QBD 1992
Mr Lloyd had parked his car in a private car park with five large notices boards located at the entrance to and exit of this private car park positioned at eye-level for car drivers. All those notices warned that unauthorised … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, Torts - Other
Lloyd -v- Jagpal and Another; ChD 21-Jul-2009
The claimant said that the defendant had, when transferring matters to a new phone bought from his employer the second defendant, taken copies of images which had been sold on to newspapers. The second defendant now sought summary dismissal of … Continue reading
Filed under Information, Vicarious Liability
Wintersteiger -v- Products 4U Sondermaschinenbau GmbH; ECJ 19-Apr-2012
ECJ Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 – Jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters – Jurisdiction ‘in matters relating to tort, delict or quasi-delict’ – Determination of the place where the harmful event occurred or may occur … Continue reading
Filed under European, Intellectual Property, Torts - Other
Lloyd -v- John Lewis Partnership; CA 1-Jul-2001
The judge allowed the defendant’s submission of no case to answer without putting them to their election and again the claimant’s appeal succeeded. The trial judge had been persuaded that the rule in Alexander -v- Rayson had been altered by … Continue reading
Filed under Litigation Practice
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Luftfahrt-Unternehmen and Hapag-Lloyd -v- Commission; ECFI 14-Mar-1997
ECFI Actions for annulment of measures – Action challenging a decision – Contested decision repealed in the course of the proceedings on account of clerical errors and a new, substantively identical decision adopted – Application rendered devoid of purpose – … Continue reading
Filed under European
