practice statement cases

London street tramways v London county council 1898

HoL decide they are bound by own previous decisions

DPP v smith 1961

Highlighted need for HoL to be able to overrule itself

Practice statement 1966

HoL allowed to depart from own decisions when ‘right to do so’

Conway v rimmer 1968

First use of practice statement

Herrington v British railways board 1972

First major use of practice statement

Knuller 1973

Certainty in law was important; practice statement not to always be used

Shivpuri 1986

First use of practice statement in criminal case

Pepper v hart 1993

Practice statement used to allows the use of Hansard as extrinsic aid

R v G and R 2003

Practice statement used to overrule recklessness in criminal law

Austin 2010

Practice statement applies to Supreme Court

Knauer 2016

Supreme Court used practice statement to overrule 2 previous decisions