The Law Reports – Subject Field


The Subject field in The Law Reports database on Justis contains words and phrases indicating the subject matter, phrases describing the nature of the case, and relevant statutory provisions. For example:

Company - Director - Disclosure of interest - Sole director resolving at meeting to terminate own contract of employment and authorise payment to himself - Minutes not recording declaration of interest by director - Whether "meeting of directors" - Whether sole director required to make declaration of interest - Companies Act 1985 (c. 6), s. 317

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The following are the main terms from which the first subject term is selected:

Administration of estates
Admiralty
Adoption
Agency
Agricultural holding
Agriculture
Aircraft
Animal
Arbitration
Arrest
Australia
Bahamas, The
Bailment
Banking
Bankruptcy
Barbados
Barrister
Bermuda
Bill of Exchange
Building
Building Society
Burden of proof
Carriage by land
Cemetery
Channel Islands
Charity
Chattel
Children and young persons
Club
Commercial Court
Commons
Company
Compulsory purchase
Confidential information
Conflict of laws
Conspiracy
Contempt of Court
Contract
Conversion
Copyright
Coroner
Costs
County Court
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Crime
Crown
Crown Court
Crown Proceedings
Currency
Damages
Deed
Dentist
Discrimination, race
Discrimination, sex
Easement
Ecclesiastical law
Education
Employment
Equity
Estoppel
European Court of Justice
European Economic Community
Evidence
Exchange control
Execution
Executor and administrator
Extradition
Fact or law
Factory
Fair trading
False imprisonment
Family provision
Fatal Accidents Acts
Fiji
Financial services
Fire Brigade
Firearms
Fishery
Food and drugs
Fraud
Fugitive offender
Gambia
Game
Gaming
Gift
Guarantee
Habeas Corpus
Hackney carriage
Hallmarking
Hawkers and pedlars
Health and safety
High Court
Highway
Hire-purchase
Hong Kong
House of Lords
Housing
Husband and wife
Immigration
Industrial relations
Industrial training
Injunction
Insurance
Interest
International law
Isle of Man
Jamaica
Joint interest
Joint tortfeasors
Judge
Judicial precedent
Judicial review
Justices
Land charge
Land registration
Landlord and tenant
Lands Tribunal
Law reform
Law report
Legal aid
Legitimacy
Libel and slander
Licence or tenancy
Licensing
Lien
Limitation of action
Local Government
Maintenance of suit
Malaysia
Market
Mauritius
Medical practitioner
Meetings
Mental disorder
Metropolis
Military law
Mines
Minor
Mobile homes
Mortgage
National Health Service
National heritage
Nationality
Natural justice
Negligence
Nemo debet bis vexari
New Zealand
Northern Ireland
Nuisance
Occupiers' liability
Open Court
Parliament
Partnership
Passing off
Patent
Police
Power of appointment
Power of attorney
Practice
Prisons
Privy Council
Probate
Public health
Public policy
Quantum meruit
Railways
Rating
Restitution
Restraint of trade
Restrictive covenant
Restrictive practices
Revenue
River
Road traffic
Rylands v. Fletcher
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sale of goods
Sarawak
Scrap metal dealer
Sequestration
Settlement
Ship's Names
Shipping
Shop
Singapore
Social Security
Solicitor
Specific performance
Statute
Statutory Instrument
Statutory power
Street trading
Tenants in common
Tort
Town planning
Trade description
Trade dispute
Trade mark
Trade union
Trespass
Tribunal
Trinidad and Tobago
Trust for sale
Trusts
Undue influence
Vagrancy
Vendor and purchaser
Vicarious liability
Volenti non fit injuria
Waiver
Weights and measures
West Indies
Will
Words and phrases

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