Results: 106

• Stockholms Enskilda Bank Aktiebolag v Schering Ltd

  29 Jan 1941 [1941] 1 KB 424, CA

  WAR — Trading with the Enemy — Debt of German company to Swedish bank
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  WAR — Trading with the Enemy — Debt of German company to Swedish bank — Agreement by English company to pay debt in instalments on receiving assignments of corresponding parts of German debt — Instalment becoming due since the outbreak of war — Swedish com

  1 Statute considered

• Cameron v Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital

  17 Oct 1940 [1941] 1 KB 350, KBD

  MASTER AND SERVANT — Truck Acts — Deductions from wages for board, lodging and laundry
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  MASTER AND SERVANT — Truck Acts — Deductions from wages for board, lodging and laundry — Part of wages paid otherwise than in current coin — Claim for recovery of amounts so deducted — Domestic servant — Stoker employed in hospital — Hospital a domestic establishment — Failure of claim — Truck Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 37), ss. 1, 3, 4, 20, 23 — Employers and Workmen Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 90), s. 10 — Truck Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 46), s. 2 — Truck Act, 1940 (3 & 4 Geo. 6, c. 38), s. 1.

  4 Statutes considered

• Cole v United Dairies (London) Ltd

  05 Nov 1940 [1941] 1 KB 100, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Injury by accident
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  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Injury by accident — Payment of compensation — Return to different work — Disfigurement — Incapacity for previous occupation — Declaration of liability — Evidence — Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 9.

  1 Statute considered

• Harris v Poland

  13 Jan 1940 [1941] 1 KB 462, KBD

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  INSURANCE — Insurance (fire) — Jewellery concealed in fire-grate
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  INSURANCE — Insurance (fire) — Jewellery concealed in fire-grate — Loss or damage caused by fire in the grate — Fire within proper bounds — Whether loss covered by policy.

• R v Hartley

  04 Nov 1940 [1941] 1 KB 5, CCA

  CRIME — Criminal law — Evidence
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  CRIME — Criminal law — Evidence — Admissibility — Buggery — Charge of offence on specific date — Evidence of offence with same boy on previous occasion — Corroboration — Evidence relating to earlier occasion corroborated — Whether corroboration of evidence relating to date charged.
• Wilkinson v Rea Ltd

  08 Apr 1941 [1941] 1 KB 688, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral.
  FACTORY — Public dry dock — Ship
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  FACTORY — Public dry dock — Ship — Accident to workman employed by repairing company — Fall down open hatch — Hatch open for delivery of coal — Electric equipment of ship being tested — Temporary extinguishment of lights — Insufficient warning to injured workman — “Occupier” — Whether repairing company — Liability of shipowners — Breach of statutory provision — Negligence — Shipbuilding Regulations, 1931 (St. R. & O., 1931, No. 133), Heading “Duties”; regs. 42 (a) and (b).

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Read v Gordon

  24 Jan 1941 [1941] 1 KB 495, CA

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent Restrictions Acts — Dwelling-house to which the principal Acts apply
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent Restrictions Acts — Dwelling-house to which the principal Acts apply — Action for recovery of possession of — On ground that landlord requires for occupation of full time employee — If tenant's dwelling-house “was let” to him in consequence of his employment — Time at which was so let to be considered — Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions (Amendment) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 32), s. 3, First Schedule, para. g (i.).

  1 Statute considered

• Haseldine v C A Daw and Son Ltd

  31 Jul 1941 [1941] 2 KB 343, CA

  Subsequent citations: 12.
  NEGLIGENCE — Lift in block of flats — Defective condition
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  NEGLIGENCE — Lift in block of flats — Defective condition — Periodic inspection by experts — Injury to passenger — Invitee or licensee — Liability of owner of flats — Liability of repairers.

• R v National Arbitration Tribunal, Ex parte Bolton Corpn

  23 Jul 1941 [1941] 2 KB 405, CA

  WAR — Emergency Legislation — Local government
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  WAR — Emergency Legislation — Local government — Officers on war service — Refusal of local authority to make up war service pay to level of civilian remuneration — Reference of dispute by Minister of Labour to National Arbitration Tribunal — “Trade dispute” — “Workmen” — Discretion of local authority — Local Government Staffs (War Service) Act, 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6, c. 94), s. 1, sub-ss. 1, 2 — Conditions of Employment and National Arbitration Order, 1940 (St. R. & O. 1940, No. 1305), Part I., art. 2; Part V., art. 7 — Industrial Courts Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 69), s. 8.

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Birch v Pease and Partners Ltd

  24 Feb 1941 [1941] 1 KB 615, CA

  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Industrial Disease
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  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Industrial Disease — Nystagmus — False representation on entering employment as to previous immunity — Workman becoming disabled by nystagmus — Agreement by employers to pay compensation — Subsequent discovery by employers that workman had previously suffered from nystagmus — Continuance by employers thereafter to pay compensation — Whether employers entitled to cease payment of compensation — Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 43, sub-s. 1 (b).

  1 Statute considered