Constitutional Law - Customs Act - Whether Customs user fee a tax - Whether Minister acted ultra vires the statute - Whether wrongful deprivation of the property - Restitution - Passing on defence - Delay - National interest - Whether Defences to the claim
Unfair Dismissal – Wrongful Dismissal – Payment of notice pay in liew of notice – Failure to afford a fair hearing – Dismissal from employment for alleged sufficient cause.
Negligence – Motor Vehicle Collision – Whether Defendant entered major road
from minor road – physical evidence – Whether appropriate to plead absence of
Insurance in a claim for negligence.
Libel - Justification - Whether statements made in reports were said in court - Adsolute privilege - Reports including things not said in court - Qualified privilege - Reliable source - Fair comment - Defamation Act section 7 and 8 - Libel Act section 15 - Damages - Compensatory - Aggravated.
Contract – Sale of Land – Specific Performance – Whether contract enforceable – whether occupation prior to completion unlawful – whether contract valid
Judicial review - Renewal of application - Test for leave to apply for judicial review - Delay in applying for judicial review - Whether remedy would be granted even if application for leave to apply judicial review granted - Whether criminal process provides adequate means of redress - Whether applicant should be granted if criminal process provides adequate remedy - Contractor General Act - Sections 4, 15, 18, 29 of the Act - Parts 26, 56 and 73 of Civil Procedure Rules - Whether application in time - Whether court has power to extend time to renew application.
Application to strike out pursuant to Civil Procedure Rules – Distinction between "new proceedings" and "old proceedings" – Rule 73.3(1) of New CPR Rules – Old proceedings not within Hilary Term within Non-Hilary Term – Case Management Conference – Whether default judgment automatically struck out for failure to comply with Rule – Whether judgment enforceable