{"title":"The Extent of Res Ipsa Loquitur","authors":"B. Lillywhite","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00519.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00519.x","url":null,"abstract":"THE decision of the Court of Appeal in Walsh v. Hoist & Co., Ltd.,1 raises many uncertainties about the working of the rule of res ipsa loquitur. The facts of the case were that the plaintiff was lawfully upon the highway when he was struck by a brick. The brick came from a building to which certain substantial structural alterations were being made. It was accepted by all members of the court that a prima facie case of negligence arose against both occupier and contractor because res ipsa loquitur.","PeriodicalId":426546,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Modern Law Review","volume":"320 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133417101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Failure to Take Soundings","authors":"E. R. Hardy-Ivamy","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00520.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00520.x","url":null,"abstract":"ONE of the issues raised in Riverstone Meat Co. Pty. v. Lancashire Shipping Co., Ltd.,1 was whether the shipowner could successfully rely on the Australian Sea-Carriage of Goods Act, 1924, Sched., Art. IV, r. 2, which provides: Neither the carrier nor the ship shall be responsible for loss or damage arising from (a) act, neglect or default of the master, mariner, pilot or the servants of the carrier in the navigation or management of the ship.-2 It was alleged in this case by the owners of cargo found to be damaged by sea water that the damage had been caused by the negligence of the shipowner in failing to discover by proper soundings the presence of water in the hold.","PeriodicalId":426546,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Modern Law Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132225988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The First Offenders Act, 1958","authors":"J. E. Williams","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00508.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00508.x","url":null,"abstract":"Ox July 7, 1958, there came into operation the First Offenders Act, 1958, which is, to quote its Long Title, an Act to restrict the imprisonment of first offenders.- Sponsored by Sir George Benson, M.P., as a Private Member's Bill, it received support and encouragement from the Home Office, which provided some drafting assistance, and it was almost unanimously welcomed in the House of Commons as a measure which would contribute in some degree to the solution of certain urgent penal problems.","PeriodicalId":426546,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Modern Law Review","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122397633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rescission of a Contract of Sale of Goods","authors":"P. Atiyah","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00517.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00517.x","url":null,"abstract":"THE case of Long v. Lloyd,1 noted by Mr. Grunfeld in 21 M.L.R. p. 550, is of such interest that a further Note on it may not be superfluous. It is unnecessary to set the facts out again in detail. Reduced to its simplest elements the case involved a sale of goods in which the seller had made certain statements regarding the quality of the goods to the buyer, and the latter was claiming the right to rescind the contract on the ground that these statements were false.","PeriodicalId":426546,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Modern Law Review","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132583403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fourth Report of the Private International Law Committee (Formal Validity of Wills)","authors":"J. H. Morris","doi":"10.1111/J.1468-2230.1959.TB00514.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1468-2230.1959.TB00514.X","url":null,"abstract":"FOR nearly a century writers on the conflict of laws in England and elsewhere have been plagued by the incongruities and ambiguities of the Wills Act, 1861 (Lord Kingsdown's Act). The news that the Private International Law Committee in their Fourth Report1 propose its radical amendment is therefore to be welcomed.","PeriodicalId":426546,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Modern Law Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124075827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Master's Indemnity-Variations on a Theme","authors":"J. A. Jolowicz","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00516.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00516.x","url":null,"abstract":"Although the defendants in Harvey v. O'Dell, Ltd. (Galway Third Party),1 contended, with an elaborate citation of authorities,- that they were not liable to the plaintiff, and McNair J. spent some time on this part of the case, it is in the third party proceedings brought by the defendants that the main interest lies, and it is only with those proceedings that the present note is concerned.","PeriodicalId":426546,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Modern Law Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125515254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suez Crisis Frustrates C.I.F. Contract","authors":"O. C. Giles","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00518.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00518.x","url":null,"abstract":"Carapanayoti & Co., LTD. V. E. T. Green, LTD.,1 concerns a c.i.f. contract affected by the blocking of the Suez Canal in November, 1956. In September of that year, the plaintiffs bought from the defendants 100 tons of Sudanese semi-decorticated expeller cotton seed cake for shipment from Port Sudan in October or November to Belfast, and the defendants made a covering purchase from Sudan Oil Mills, Ltd., of Khartoum. The contract contained a clause concerning the effect of hostilities, but in the event the court decided the case on the basis of the common law.","PeriodicalId":426546,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Modern Law Review","volume":"10 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132063473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aiding and Abetting a Statutory Offence","authors":"B. Downey","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00522.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1959.tb00522.x","url":null,"abstract":"HAD Slade J. been in a position to agree with the other members of the Divisional Court in National Coal Board v. Gamble,1 the case might have provided some important guidance on the question of the criminal responsibility of corporations for the acts of their servants or agents. As it was, the case turned upon the narrower question of the intent necessary to constitute the offence of aiding and abetting.","PeriodicalId":426546,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Modern Law Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129348230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Buckland V Bournemouth University Higher Education Corp: Statutory Constructive Dismissal and the Implied Term of Mutual Trust and Confidence","authors":"D. Cabrelli","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-2230.2010.00839.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2010.00839.x","url":null,"abstract":"The decision of the Court of Appeal in Buckland v Bournemouth University Higher Education Corp [2010] EWCA Civ 121; [2010] ICR 908; [2010] IRLR 445 is one which has ramifications for the common law and statutory regulation of the contract of employment. However, its significance does not end there, since it offers wider insights into the relationship between common law and statute law, as well as the English and Scots law of contract generally.","PeriodicalId":426546,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Modern Law Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131296846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Civic Integration, Migrant Women and the Veil: At the Limits of Rights?","authors":"Siobhán Mullally","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-2230.2010.00835.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2010.00835.x","url":null,"abstract":"Controversies surrounding the wearing of the veil by Muslim women in Europe have coincided with a resurgence of interest in pathways to citizenship and integration testing. This article argues that the historical vestiges of discrimination in immigration and citizenship laws persist today in the scrutiny of the cultural affiliations and practices of aspiring immigrants and citizens. Muslim women have been placed at the center of such scrutiny, increasingly defined by the arbiters of belonging as les anormeaux. This article explores recent legislative developments on the wearing of the veil in France and examines these developments in the light of the expansion of integration testing and human rights law's normative commitments to more just multicultural arrangements.","PeriodicalId":426546,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Modern Law Review","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117335733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}