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Landmark Legal Case Examples
  • Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co (1893): This case established the fundamental concepts of contract law.
  • Donoghue v Stevenson (1932): Earlier mentioned, this case laid down the foundation of the law of negligence and the duty of care.
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  • What is an example of a civil law case in the UK?

    Examples of civil law cases include: Family disputes, such as divorce, dissolution of civil partnerships, children's issues and childcare arrangements.
    Personal injury cases, such as road traffic accidents, medical and clinical negligence and slips, trips and falls.

  • Where to read case law UK?

    You can search for cases online using:

    BAILII – a free database with the widest coverage of case transcripts.LawCite – a free database giving citation information for cases.CommonLII – a free database indexing cases from former Commonwealth countries.

  • Is UK law based on case law?

    Case law, which is recorded in Law Reports series, provides the bulk of law in the United Kingdom and acts as a source of law through the mechanism of the doctrine of precedent.
    According to the doctrine of precedent a court is bound by the decisions of a court above it and, usually, by a court of equivalent standing.

  • Is UK law based on case law?

    The Find Case Law service provides public access to recent judgments from the England and Wales High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and tribunal decisions from the Upper Tribunals.
    The service will be expanded to include more courts and tribunals and a greater range of judgments will be added.

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Internet: case-law of the European Court of Human Rights

16 juin 2015 decisions on the rules of international law (see for example



Consultation on the departure from retained EU case law by UK

It will not affect the interpretation of law which is not retained EU law. For example section 7A of the 2018 Act gives effect to the rights and obligations 



Case Law Overview Working Document

15 mars 2016 Relevant case-law of CJEU ECHR and national courts of EU Member ... the Court stated that the Government did not provide any example of.



Guide on Article 8 - Right to respect for private and family life home

The Case-Law Guides are available for downloading at www.echr.coe.int (Case-law The Court has found for example



Lies damned lies: Abuse of process and the dishonest litigant

26 oct. 2012 A number of examples were given from the English case law besides the Scottish case of Levison. This was an innovative judgment.



JUDGMENT Montgomery (Appellant) v Lanarkshire Health Board

11 mars 2015 the example was intended to illustrate. The subsequent case law. 63. In the present case as in earlier cases



JUDGMENT Lloyd (Respondent) v Google LLC (Appellant)

10 nov. 2021 For example in the case of insurance underwritten by Lloyd's syndicates



Practical Guide on Admissibility Criteria

The Admissibility Guide and the Case-Law Guides are available for application in respect of complaints under for example



Guide on Article 6 - Right to a fair trial (civil limb)

30 avr. 2022 particular Guide analyses and sums up the case-law on Article 6 (civil ... For example the Court found that proceedings challenging the.



Cultural rights in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights

case-law provides interesting examples of how some rights falling under the notion of. “cultural rights” in a broad sense can be protected under core civil