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Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists (Southern) Ltd [1952] 2 QB 795 (Court of Queen’s Bench) The defendants, Boots was charged with an offence under the Pharmacy and Poisons Act 1933, Section 18, which required that sales of poisons in Part I of the Poisons List take place under the supervision of

Fisher v Bell [1961] 1 QB 394 (QB) A shopkeeper displayed a flick knife in his shop window with a ticket stating ‘Ejector knife—4 shillings’. He was charged with offering the knife for sale contrary to section 1(1) of the Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959. Held: A display of goods in a shop window

Partridge v Crittenden [1968] 1 WLR 1204 (QB) The plaintiff had placed an advertisement in a periodical, which read ‘Bramblefinch cocks, Bramblefinch hens, 25 shillings each’. The plaintiff was charged with unlawfully offering for sale a wild  live bird contrary to Section 6(1) of and Schedule 4 to the Protection of Birds Act 1954. Held:

Gibson v Manchester City Council [1979] 1 WLR 294 (HL) The Manchester City Council adopted a policy of selling council houses to tenants. The respondent tenant applied on a printed form for details of the price and mortgage terms. The city treasurer wrote to the respondent that the Council: ‘may be prepared to sell the