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Judicial Precedent—Taming the Common Law

LORD CARNWATH OF NOTTING HILL JSC
Pages 261-272 | Published online: 07 May 2015

  • Lord Neuberger, ‘Law Reporting and the Doctrine of Precedent: The Past the Present and the Future' in Halsbury's Laws of England Centenary Essays (LexisNexis 2007) 71.
  • Osakue v Federal College of Education (2010) 3 NMLR (Pt II) 319 (Supreme Court of Nigeria (SCN)) [15].
  • Cassell v Broome [1972] AC 1027 (House of Lords (HL)) 1053–54, as noted in Niki Tobi, Sources of Nigerian Law (MIJ Professional Publishers 1996) 89.
  • Lord Neuberger, ‘Law Reporting’ (n 1) 70.
  • ibid 72.
  • Slater v May (1704) 1 Ld Raym 1071, 1072 (Court of King's Bench).
  • Keighley v Durant [1901] AC 240 (HL) 248.s
  • <www.bailii.org> accessed 31 October 2012.
  • Quinn v Leathem [1901] AC 495 (HL) 506.
  • Lupton v FA & AB Ltd [1972] AC 634 (HL) 658.
  • (1998) 3 NWLR (Pt 80) 109; cited in Tobi (n 3) 84.
  • (1867) LR2Ex 259, 265 (Court of Exchequer Chamber).
  • [1912] AC 716 (HL).
  • [1982] 3 All ER 394 (HL).
  • Bremer Vulkan v South India Shipping Corpn [1981] AC 909 (HL).
  • [1983] 1 All ER 34 (HL).
  • Note that the Bremer Vulkan and Paal Wilson decisions were ultimately modifed by the Arbitration Act 1950, s 13A, added with effect from 1 January 1992 by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990.
  • Buhari & Ors v Obasanjo & Ors (2003) 11 SC 1 (SCN) 124 (Pats—Acholonu JSC).
  • [1969] 1 AC 191(HL).
  • ibid 231–32, 244, 286 (Lord Reid, Lord Morris and Lord Upjohn).
  • [1980] AC 198 (HL).
  • ibid 212–13.
  • [2000] 3 All ER 673 (HL).
  • Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent) [1966] 1 WLR 1234 (HL).
  • Kay v Lambeth LBC [2006] UKHL 10 (HL) [42].
  • Young v Bristol Aeroplane Co Ltd [1944] KB 718 (England and Wales Court of Appeal (EWCA)).
  • ibid 99–101.
  • Tobi (n 3) 400.
  • Saunders v Anglia Building Society [1971] AC 1004 (HL) 1015.
  • Doherty v Birmingham City Council [2006] EWCA Civ 1739 (EWCA Civ) (Tuckey and Neuberger LJ J).
  • Kay v Lambeth London Borough Council [2006] UKHL 10 (HL).
  • Lambert v Lewis [1982] AC 225 (HL) 274. See also Pioneer Shipping Ltd v BTP Tioxide Ltd [1981] 2 All ER 1030 (HL) 1046 (Lord Roskill with whom the other Law Lords agreed on the point).
  • Cited in R v Erskine [2009] EWCA Crim 1425 (EWCA Crim) [73] (as part of a series of quotations on the same theme over more than 100 years).
  • Michaels v Taylor Woodrow [2001] Ch 493 (High Court, Chancery Division).
  • Erskine (n 33) [75].
  • Nedlloyd Lines UK Ltd & Ors v Cel Group Ltd [2003] EWCA Civ 1716 (EWCA Civ) [23]–[26].

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