Results: 76

• Toronto Railway Co v Corpn Of The City Of Toronto (No 1)

  18 Dec 1919 [1920] AC 426, PC

  RAILWAY — Canada — Railways
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  RAILWAY — Canada — Railways — Powers of Railway Board — Legislative Power of Dominion — Carrying Highway over Dominion Railways — Apportionment of Cost on Provincial Railway — Right of Appeal to Privy Council — Petition for Special Leave — Inaccuracy — Ra

  2 Statutes considered

• West India Electric Co Ltd v Roberts

  16 Jul 1920 [1920] AC 1025, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  APPEAL — New Trial — Excessive Damages
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  APPEAL — New Trial — Excessive Damages — Verdict of Jury — Weight of Majority Verdict.

• The Urna

  14 May 1920 [1920] AC 899, PC

  ADMIRALTY — Prize court — Conditional Contraband
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  ADMIRALTY — Prize court — Conditional Contraband — Neutral Port — Consignment to selling Agent — Advances by Agent — “The Consignee of the Goods” — Order in Council of October 29, 1914, cl. 1 (iii.).

• Marshall’s Township Syndicate Ltd v Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co Ltd

  19 Dec 1919 [1920] AC 420, PC

  CRIME — South africa — Legislative Power of Province
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  CRIME — South africa — Legislative Power of Province — Municipal Rates — Ultimate Burden — Invalidation of Contracts — South Africa Act, 1900 (9 Edw. 7, c. 9, Imp.), s. 85 (vi.).

  1 Statute considered

• Trinidad Shipping and Trading Co Ltd v G R Alston and Co

  14 May 1920 [1920] AC 888, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CONTRACT — Illegality by Foreign Law — Shipping
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  CONTRACT — Illegality by Foreign Law — Shipping — Agreement to pay Rebates on Freights — Performance of Contract of Carriage — Liability to pay Rebates.
• Director of Public Prosecutions v Beard

  05 Mar 1920 [1920] AC 479, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 22.
  CRIME — Criminal law — Murder
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  CRIME — Criminal law — Murder — Manslaughter — Act of Violence done in furtherance of Rape — Plea of Drunkenness — Misdirection.

• London and North Western Railway Co v Richard Hudson and Sons Ltd

  30 Jan 1920 [1920] AC 324, HL

  RAILWAY — Carrier — Goods
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  RAILWAY — Carrier — Goods — Railway Company — Damage on transit by Water owing to defective Sheeting — Loading and Sheeting performed by Consignors under Arrangement with Railway Company — Authority of Consignor — Liability of Railway Company.

• M’Alinden (Pauper) v James Nimmo and Co Ltd

  01 Jul 1919 [1920] AC 39, HL

  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Review of Weekly Payment
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  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Review of Weekly Payment — Partial Incapacity — No Change in physical Condition — Inability to get Work — Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 58), Sched. I., para. 16 — Costs — Taxation — Pauper — Appeal to House of Lords — Scottish Appeal — Successful Pauper Appellant.

  1 Statute considered
• Weld-Blundell v Stephens

  06 Jul 1918 [1918] 2 KB 742, KBD

  12 Dec 1918 [1919] 1 KB 520; 35 TLR 245, CA

  13 May 1920 [1920] AC 956; 36 TLR 640, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 63.
  PRINCIPAL AND AGENT — Confidential Instructions — Duty of Secrecy
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  PRINCIPAL AND AGENT — Confidential Instructions — Duty of Secrecy — Breach of Duty — Damages — Remoteness — Libel — Repetition of Libel — Novus actus interveniens.

• Toronto Railway Co v Corpn Of The City Of Toronto (No 2)

  20 Jan 1920 [1920] AC 455, PC

  RAILWAY — Canada (ontario) — Street Railway
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  RAILWAY — Canada (ontario) — Street Railway — Removal of Snow — Breach of Statutory Duty — Powers of Railway Board — Non-exclusion of Common Law Action — Ontario Railway Act (R. S. Ont., 1914, c. 185), s. 260.

  1 Statute considered