To see what these cases are about and if they are relevant to you without leaving your desk add on the use of GOOGLE or TEOMA

Put each one of these into the web search box in exactly this format. Omit the cites.

• Kirvek Management & Consulting Services Ltd v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
• Roe v Sheffield City Council (No 1)
• Garden Cottage Foods Ltd v Milk Marketing Board

The result will show the plethora of sources using or commenting on this case. The following GOOGLE result illustrates this by bringing up an interesting article which links the European case law with the UK case law

The results will also reveal law firm newsletters, online journals, republished articles and a heap of cases from countries that allow their case law to be publicly available on the web including the House of Lords.

You will quickly be able to determine if you will need to contact the NZLS Library for a copy of anything.

A point to ponder is the difference in the results from the two web search engines.

The article abstract also mentions "Eurotort" To find out what this is means put the term into the GOOGLE search box and you will see the first item is a newsletter from Sweet & Maxwell interviewing the author of a new text on tort which will be including comment on the Eurotort. This is interesting for New Zealand as we now see the influence of European law on the common law of England. The item is also found in TEOMA with the word used in two parts. Euro tort. So the usual caveats apply to the search engines, make sure the words are used in as many different ways you can think of.

...law comparators [ibid pp 572j-575g], ie, the general tort of breach of statutory duty, the Francovich "Euro tort", AJR, the damages action...

www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/academic/updates...

All this started from the search "breach of statutory duty" in the LINX database.

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