Provisional concepts and definitions of fact

Law and Philosophy

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 447-460

  Marshall, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appeal; Classification; Comment; Degree (question of); Evidence; Fact; Inference; Jury; Opinion; Primary fact; Statement; Truth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033271178     PISSN: 01675249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3505139     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. An issue debated by Professor P.F. Strawson and J.L. Austin. See Strawson Proc. of the Australian Soc. Supp. Vol. XXIV 135 and Austin "Unfair to Facts" in Philosophical Papers OUP (1970) at p. 154 ff.
2. An issue debated by Professor P.F. Strawson and J.L. Austin. See Strawson Proc. of the Australian Soc. Supp. Vol. XXIV 135 and Austin "Unfair to Facts" in Philosophical Papers OUP (1970) at p. 154 ff.
3. See Law as Fact 2nd edn. Stevens (1971).
4. A term popularised by John Searle. See The Construction of Social Reality. Penguin (1995) Chap. 2.
5. Administrative Justice and the Supremacy of Law, Harvard University Press (1927) at p. 55.
6. British Launderers Association v. Hendon Rating Authority [1949] 1 K.B. 462 at 471.
7. "The adequacy of the evidence adduced to support a finding of fact is a question of law." Louis Jaffé, "Judicial Review: Question of Fact" 69 Harvard Law Review 1020.
8. Collected Legal Papers, Harcourt, Brace and Howe (1920) at p. 233.
9. Ibid.
10. [1947] K.B. 349 at 358; c.f. Edwards v. Bairstow [1956] A.C. 14 at 33.
11. See A. Farnsworth, "'Fact' or 'Law' in Cases Stated under the Income Tax Acts" 62 Law Quarterly Review 248 (1946).
12. See J. Beatson, "The Scope of Judicial Review for Error of Law" (1984) 4 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 22.
13. White and Collins v. Minister of Health [1938] 2 K.B. 838; and R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department ex p. Kawaja [1984] A.C.74.
14. White and Collins v. Minister of Health [1938] 2 K.B. 838; and R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department ex p. Kawaja [1984] A.C.74.
15. IRC v. Scottish and Newcastle Breweries Ltd. [1982] 1 W.L.R. 322 at 327.
16. Pulhofer v. Hillingdon L.B.C. [1986] A.C. 484 at 517-18.
17. Timothy Endicott, "Questions of Law" 114 Law Quarterly Review 292 at 318-21 cf. E. Mureinik, "The Application of Rules; Law or Fact" (1982) 98 Law Quarterly Review 587.
18. Timothy Endicott, "Questions of Law" 114 Law Quarterly Review 292 at 318-21 cf. E. Mureinik, "The Application of Rules; Law or Fact" (1982) 98 Law Quarterly Review 587.
19. [1973] A.C. 854 at 861; c.f. R. v. Radio Authority ex p. Bull [1997] 2 All E.R. 561.
20. Westminster City Council v. Moran [1998] 7 C.L. 441.
21. See e.g. Shah v. Barnet L.B.C. [1983] 2 A.C. 309 at 341.
22. Theft Act, 1978 s. 15(4) see D. W. Elliot "Law and Fact in Theft Act cases" [1976] Criminal Law Review 707. The Trade Descriptions Act, 1968 by contrast creates the offence of making a false statement without specifying that such statements must be as to a matter of fact. As to the factual character of statements about the future and as to present and future intentions see R. v. Sunair Holidays Ltd. [1973] 1 W.L.R. 1105; and British Airways v. Taylor [1976] 1 W.L.R. 13.
23. "Law of Libel and Liberty of the Press", Edinburgh Review 111 1825.
24. Mangena v. Wright [1909] 2K.B. 958; Grech v. Odhams Press [1958] 2 K.B. 275. See also Kemsley v. Foot [1952] A.C. 348 and Chap. 6 of the Report of the Committee on Defamation CMnd.5909 (1972).
25. McQuire v. Western Morning News [1903] 2 K.B. 100 at 109
26. Turner v. MGM [1950] 1 All E.R. 449 at 461.
27. London Artists v. Littler [1969] 2 Q.B. 375.
28. Gatley on Libel and Slander 8th edn. P. Lewis, Sweet and Maxwell (1981) at p. 699.
29. Cooper v. Lawson 8 A.&E. 746 at 752.
30. Aga Khan v. Times Co. [1924] 1K.B. 675 at 680.
31. Sutherland v. Stopes [1925] A.C. 47; London Artists v. Littler [1969] Q.B. 375 (C.A.).