This is a chronological list of notable cases decided by the Senior Courts of England and Wales – that is, cases from the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and Crown Court.

Pre-1800

  • Haxey's case (1397) Rot. Parl. (iii) 434
  • Case of the Thorns (1466) YB 6 Ed 4, 7a pl 18. Early precedent for negligence and trespass to land.
  • R v Earl of Northumberland (1568) Crown right to minerals precedent.
  • Case of the Swans (1592) Crown right to wildlife precedent
  • Mouse's case(1602) precedent establishing the defense of Necessity on Tort
  • Booty v Barnaby (1687)

1800–1899

  • Vaughn v. Menlove (1837). 132 E.R. 490 (C.P.)
  • Foss v Harbottle (1843) 2 Hare 461, 67 ER 189
  • Parker v. South Eastern Railway Company (1877), L.R. 2 C.P.D. 416
  • Cundy v Lindsay (1878) 3 App Cas 459
  • Household Fire & Carriage Account Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Grant (1879), 4 Exch. Div. 216
  • R v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 King's Bench Division 273
  • The Moorcock (1889), 14 Probate Division 64
  • Kenrick v. Lawrence [1890] QBD
  • Henthorn v. Fraser [1892] 2 Ch. 27
  • Hollingrake v. Truswell [1894] 3 Ch. 420
  • Wilkinson v Downton [1897] 2 Q.B. 57: Intentional infliction of nervous shock
  • Simcoe v. Pethick, 2 Q.B. 55(1898). widely cited as an important precedent for public land rights in England.

1900–1999

  • Automatic Self-Cleansing Filter Syndicate Co Ltd v Cuninghame, [1906] 2 Ch. 34 (C.A.): duty of corporate directors
  • University of London Press, Ltd. v. University Tutorial Press, Ltd. [1916] 2 Ch. 601
  • Balfour v. Balfour [1919] 2 K.B. 571
  • Foley v. Classique Coaches Ltd. [1934] 2 K.B. 1
  • Young v Bristol Aeroplane Co Ltd [1944] KB 718
  • Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd [1947] K.B. 130.
  • Olley v Marlborough Court Hotel [1949] 1 K.B. 532.
  • Shanklin Pier Ltd v Detel Products Ltd, [1951] 2 KB 854
  • Fisher v Bell [1960] 3 W.L.R. 919
  • R v Waterfield, [1963] 3 All E.R. 659
  • Edwards v. Skyways Ltd. [1964] 1 All E.R. 494
  • Gould v. Gould [1969] 3 All E.R. 728

2000 – present

  • R v Grillo and Grillo

See also

  • List of cases involving Lord Denning
  • List of Judicial Committee of the Privy Council cases
  • List of House of Lords cases