List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council & House of Lords cases
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This page is for notable Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and House of Lords legal cases. The Privy Council cases before 1949 that were appeals from the Supreme Court of Canada or any of the Court of Appeals of the provinces are binding precedent in Canada (even today, unless they have been overruled by the Supreme Court of Canada). The external link below is for all cases beginning in 1996.
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Significant Privy Council cases
- Maher v. Town Council of Portland (1875)
- Citizen's Insurance Co. v. Parsons (1880) re. powers of Canadian government
- McLaren v. Caldwell (1883) : re. powers Canadian government
- The Trustees, Executor and Agency Co. v. Short (1888), 58 L.J.P.C. 4 (J.C.P.C.).
- Sifton v. Sifton [1938] A.C. 656 : re. certainty of conditions in a devise
- Overseas Tankship v Morts Dock & Engineering Co. Ltd. (The Wagon Mound No. 1) [1961] A.C. 388
- Overseas Tankship v Miller Steamship Co. (The Wagon Mound No. 2) [1967] A.C. 617
- The Eurymedon [1975] AC 154.
- Pao On v. Lau Yiu Long [1980] AC 614.
Significant House of Lords cases
- Donaldson v. Beckett, 2 Brown's Parl. Cases 129, 1 Eng. Rep. 837; 4 Burr. 2408, 98 Eng. Rep. 257 (1774)
- Rylands v. Fletcher [1868]
- Hughes v Metropolitan Railway Co. (1877) 2 AC 439
- Foakes v. Beer [1884], L.R. 9 App Cas. 605
- Wakelin v. London & South Western Railway Co. (1886), 12 App. Cas. 41, 56 L.J.Q.B. 229 (H.L.)
- Derry v. Peek (1889) 14 A.C. 337, 58 L.J. Ch. 864, 61 L.T. 265 (H.L.)
1900 – 1949
- Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre v. Selfridge and Co. Ltd. [1915] A.C. 847
- Herd v. Weardale Steel Coal & Coke Ltd. [1915] A.C. 67, 84 L.J.K.B. 121 (H.L.)
- Donoghue v. Stevenson [1932] A.C. 532 Lord Aitkin's famous statement about duty of care in the tort of negligence.
- Bell v. Lever Brothers [1932] A.C. 161
- Hillas v. Arcos [1932] All E.R. 494
- Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v. Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour [1942] 2 All E.R. 122, [1943] A.C. 32 - aka Fibrosa case
- Hay v. Young [1943] A.C. 92
1950 – 1999
- Bolton v. Stone [1951] A.C. 850, [1951] 1 All E.R. 1078 (H.L.)
- Cavanagh v. Ulster Weaving Co. Ltd. [1960] A.C. 1959 2 All E.R. (H.L.)
- Midland Silicones v. Scruttons [1961] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 365 (H.L.)
- White & Carter (Councils) Ltd. v. McGregor [1961] All E.R. 1178
- Hughes v. Lord Advocate [1963] All E.R. 705 (H.L.)
- Hedley Byrne v. Heller [1963] 2 All E.R. 575
- Practice Statement (July 26, 1966)
- Suisse Atlantique case [1966] 2 All E.R. 61
- Home Office v. Dorset Yacht Co. [1970] 2 All ER 294
- Saunders v. Anglia Building Society [1971] A.C. 1004
- McGhee v. National Coal Board [1972] 3 All E.R. 1008 (H.L.)
- Haughton v. Smith, [1975] AC 476, [1973] 3 All ER 1109, [1974] 3 W.L.R.
- American Cyanamid Co. v. Ethicon Ltd. [1975] AC 396 HL(E)
- Anns v. Merton London Borough Council [1978] A.C. 728, [1977] 2 All E.R. (H.L.)
- Securicor Transport Ltd. v. Photo Production Ltd. [1980] 2 W.L.R. 283
- Copac v. Wright [1991]
Canadian Constitutional law cases:
- Silkin v. Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd., [1958] 1 W.L.R. 743 (Freedom of Speech)
Criminal law cases:
- Woolmington v. DPP [1935] AC 462 HL(E)
- Haughton v. Smith [1975] AC 476 (House of Lords) Attempted crimes, subsequently overturned by statute.
Copyright cases:
- Walter v. Lane [1900] AC 539 (House of Lords) Fixation by journalist creates copyright by publisher.
External links
- House of Lords cases since 1996 (http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199697/ldjudgmt/ldjudgmt.htm)