Thursday, 8 October 2015

Lord Neuberger reflects on the top 15 cases from the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting

To mark 150 years of the ICLR (which publishes the Official and Weekly Law Reports, among others) Lord Neuberger delivered a speech earlier this week highlighting the most important 15 cases from those 150 years. 
The cases were chosen in response to a survey circulated by the ICLR to subscribers earlier this year, and it fell to Lord Neuberger to discuss them.
The full text of the speech is now available.

For those of you interested in which cases were chosen, the list is below: 

  • Rylands v Fletcher (1866) LR 3 HL 330
  • Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [1893] 1 QB 256
  • Salomon v A Salomon & Co [1897] AC 22
  • Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 
  • Woolmington v Director of Public Prosecutions [1935] AC 462 
  • Liversidge v Anderson [1942] AC 206 
  • Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd [1947] KB 130 
  • Associated Provincial Picture Houses v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 
  • Anisminic Ltd v Foreign Compensation Commission [1969] 2 AC 147
  • Caparo Industries plc v Dickman [1990] 2 AC 605
  • R v R [1992] 1 AC 599 
  • Pepper v Hart [1993] AC 593 
  • In re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) [2001] Fam 147 
  • A v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2005] 2 AC 68 
  • Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd [2009] 1 AC 1101 

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