Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution

Charles Mitchell is Professor of Law at UCL. His recent publications include Underhill & Hayton's Law Relating to Trusts and Trustees (19th edn, 2015) (with David Hayton and Paul Matthews) and Goff and Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment (8th edn, 2010) (with Paul Mitchell and Stephen Watterson). Paul Mitchell is Professor of Law at UCL. His recent publications include A History of Tort Law 1900-1950 (2015) and Goff and Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment (8th edn, 2010) (with Charles Mitchell and Stephen Watterson). Together they have also co-edited Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract, Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort and Landmark Cases in Equity (all from Hart Publishing).

…useful insights into the role some cases played in bringing the law of restitution to where it is today…

• 1. Lamplugh v Brathwaite (1615)DAVID IBBETSON2. Moses v Macferlan (1760)WARREN SWAIN3. Taylor v Plumer (1815)LIONEL SMITH4. Planché v Colburn (1831)CHARLES MITCHELL AND CHARLOTTE MITCHELL5.Marsh v Keating (1834)JAMES EDELMAN6. Erlanger v New Sombrero Phosphate Co (1878)MICHAEL LOBBAN7. Phillips v Homfray (1883)WILLIAM SWADLING8. Allcard v Skinner (1887)CHARLOTTE SMITH9. Sinclair v Brougham (1914)EOIN O’DELL10. Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd (1942) PAUL MITCHELL11. Re Diplock (1948)TIM AKKOUH AND SARAH WORTHINGTON12. Solle v Butcher (1950)CATHARINE MACMILLAN