Rookes v Barnard

Rookes v Barnard
CourtHouse of Lords
Decided21 January 1964
Citation[1964] AC 1129, [1964] 1 All ER 367, [1964] UKHL 1
Court membership
Judges sittingLord Reid, Lord Evershed, Lord Hodson, Lord Devlin and Lord Pearce

Rookes v Barnard [1964] UKHL 1 is a UK labour law and English tort law case and the leading case in English law on punitive damages and was a turning point in judicial activism against trade unions.

The case was almost immediately reversed by the Trade Disputes Act 1965 insofar as it decided on economic torts, although the law on punitive damages remains authoritative.

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