Simon Bradshaw

It's pretty clear from the judgment that Mann J felt that such a definition was long overdue! The leading case usually cited, Hensher v Restawile [1973] F.S.R. 477, is almost a textbook example of the difficulty in trying to extract a single ratio from the decisions of multi-judge appellate courts, with five Law Lords all giving somewhat different reasons why they thought a particular suite of furniture was not a WAC.