
Famous Cases
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Content
- Cover
- Acknowledgement
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- List of Cases
- PART I: Introduction
- 1 Origin and Growth of the Common Law
- Unwritten law
- Early laws
- The lawyer king
- Rise of the legal profession
- Precedent
- Court of Chancery
- Discord
- The Star Chamber
- The High Commission
- Trial by jury
- Statutes
- PART II Criminal Trials
- 2 George Joseph Smith and the "Brides in the Bath
- MAKIN'S CASE
- The Privy Council hearing
- SMITH'S CASE
- The facts
- The appeal
- Aftermath
- Straffen
- Pragmatic approach
- A new precedent
- 3 Woolmington's Case
- Presumption of guilt
- The facts
- The first trial
- The second trial
- The first appeal
- Woolmington v. DPP
- No presumption of murder
- The "beyond reasonable doubt" principle
- Aftermath of Woolmington
- 4 Gypsy Jim Smith
- The case
- Malice aforethought
- DPP v. Smith
- Aftermath
- PART III Civil Cases
- 5 Donoghue v. Stevenson
- The claim
- Judgments
- The "neighbour" rule
- Explosive effects
- 6 Lord Denning's "High Trees" Case
- The Facts
- Legal argument
- The judgment
- 7 Rookes v. Barnard
- The facts
- The case
- The first appeal
- The House of Lords
- 8 The Mareva Injunction
- Nippon Yusen Kaisha v Karageorgis
- Mareva Compania Naviera SA v International Bulkcarriers SA
- Law reform
- 9 Wednesbury Unreasonableness
- Associated Provincial Picture Houses, Ltd v. Wednesbury Corporation
- The appeal
- What the case settled
- PART IV International Law
- 10 The Trials of Augusto Pinochet
- The legal background
- Background to the Pinochet case
- The arrests
- Divisional Court hearing
- First House of Lords appeal
- The problem
- The petition
- Second House of Lords appeal
- Historic decision
- Index
- Back cover
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