Glossary of OFT judgement?

[Froggy]

Any chance of maybe an A-Z or glossary of the OFT judgement cos I have no idea what the word estoppel means. And maybe some latin legal terms could be in there to make it easier to understand?
I know you have the cases mentioned but unless I buy an Oxford English dictionary/Law dictionary or spend ages trying to work out what online definition of a word means, I could spend hours reading merely one sentence.
Could that be compiled and added to as and when?

[Paule]

Re: Glossary of OFT judgement?

If you want to post up any unfamilar words on this thread then we will put definitions to them.

We will add to this post with the defintions so they are at the top of the thread


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Estoppel
estoppel - legal definition
1) A legal principle that prevents a person from asserting or denying something in court that contradicts what has already been established as the truth.
(2) A legal doctrine that prevents the relitigation of facts or issues that were previously resolved in court. For example, Alvin loses control of his car and accidentally sideswipes several parked cars. When the first car owner sues Alvin for damages, the court determines that Alvin was legally drunk at the time of the accident. Alvin will not be able to deny this fact in subsequent lawsuits against him. This type of estoppel is most commonly called collateral estoppel.