United Kingdom Leading Case uncategorized

Davis v Johnson

[1979] AC 264; [1978] UKHL 1; [1978] 2 WLR 553; [1978] 1 All ER 1132

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtHouse of Lords

Year1978

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Section 1 of the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 empowers a county court to exclude a violent cohabitant from the shared home irrespective of property rights; the Court of Appeal is bound by its own prior decisions (Young v Bristol Aeroplane) and Hansard is not to be used as an aid to statutory construction.

Area of Law

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Corbett v Corbett (otherwise Ashley) [1971] P 83; [1970] 2 All ER 33; [1970] 2 WLR 1306

Corbett v Corbett (otherwise Ashley) Corbett v Corbett (otherwise Ashley) [1971] P 83; [1970] 2 All ER 33

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