Results: 34

• London Passenger Transport Board v Moscrop

  15 Jan 1942 [1942] AC 332, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 9.
  TRADE UNION — Employee of public authority — Charge before superintendent and appeal from decision

  PRACTICE — Declaration — No interference with private right.
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  TRADE UNION — Employee of public authority — Charge before superintendent and appeal from decision — Employees given right to be represented by union official — Employee not a member — Condition placing him under disability — Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 22), s. 6, sub-s. 1.

  PRACTICE — Declaration — No interference with private right.

  1 Statute considered
• Century Insurance Co v Northern Ireland Road Transport Board

  04 Mar 1942 [1942] AC 509, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 8.
  MASTER AND SERVANT — Transference of employment — Agreement by transport undertaking with petroleum company

  NEGLIGENCE — Scope of employment — Employee delivering petrol from tanker to storage tank
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  MASTER AND SERVANT — Transference of employment — Agreement by transport undertaking with petroleum company — Delivery of petrol in vehicles of undertaking — Obligation of employees of undertaking to obey orders of company.

  NEGLIGENCE — Scope of employment — Employee delivering petrol from tanker to storage tank — Smoking — Lighted match thrown on floor.
• Steele v Robert George (1937) Ltd

  04 Mar 1942 [1942] AC 497, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 2.
  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Incapacity resulting from injury
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  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Incapacity resulting from injury — Workman's refusal to undergo operation — Reasonableness — Question of fact — Burden of proof — Workman's doctor against operation — Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 &#

  1 Statute considered

• Brackenborough v Spalding Urban District Council

  25 Jan 1940 [1940] 1 KB 675, CA

  15 Dec 1941 [1942] AC 310, HL

  MARKET — Cattle — Escape of steer
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  MARKET — Cattle — Escape of steer — Fatal injuries to person on highway — Liability of market authority.

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Rickards v Forestal Land, Timber and Railways Co Ltd

  30 Jul 1941 [1942] AC 50, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 9.
  INSURANCE — Insurance (marine) — War risks
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  INSURANCE — Insurance (marine) — War risks — Policy “warranted free of any claim based upon loss of, or frustration of, the insured voyage or adventure caused by …. restraints …. of …. princes” — British cargo in German ships — Outbreak of war — Deviation to neutral port by order of German government — Subsequent departure for Germany — Ship scuttled with cargo — Arrival of ship and cargo in Germany — Constructive total loss — Liability of underwriters — Marine Insurance Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 41), s. 45; s. 49, sub-s. 1 (a), (b), (d); s. 60, sub-s. 2 (i.) (a); Sch. I., r. 10.

  1 Statute considered
• Skelton v Younghouse

  27 Apr 1942 [1942] AC 571, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive.
  WILL — Construction — Option to purchase shares in private company
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  WILL — Construction — Option to purchase shares in private company — Subsequent death of donee without exercising option — Exercise by assignees or executors of donee.
• Guardian Trust and Executors Co of New Zealand Ltd v Public Trustee of New Zealand

  19 Jan 1942 [1942] AC 115; [1942] 1 All ER 598, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 6.
  EXECUTOR AND ADMINISTRATOR — New zealand — Executor
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  EXECUTOR AND ADMINISTRATOR — New zealand — Executor — Payment of legacies — Notice of intention to apply for revocation of probate — Probate subsequently recalled — Liability of executor — Statutory notice to creditors “and others” — Inapplicable — Effect of grant of probate — The Trustee Act, No. 200 of 1908, s. 74.

  1 Statute considered
• Benson v Northern Ireland Road Transport Board

  04 Mar 1942 [1942] AC 520, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 4.
  CRIME — Criminal law — Appeal
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  CRIME — Criminal law — Appeal — Dismissal of summons — Order for payment of costs by complainants — No appeal — Summary Jurisdiction and Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland), 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 13), s. 24, sub-s. 1 — Road and Railway Transport Act (Northern Ireland), 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 15), s. 15, sub-s. 1.

  2 Statutes considered
• Constantine (Joseph) Steamship Line Ltd v Imperial Smelting Corpn Ltd

  09 May 1941 [1942] AC 154, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 34.
  SHIPPING — Ship — Charterparty
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  SHIPPING — Ship — Charterparty — Frustration — Explosion on ship — No evidence of cause — Liability of shipowners — Onus of proof.

• The Prins Knud (France Fenwick Tyne and Wear Co Ltd v HM Procurator General)

  11 Feb 1941 [1941] P 39, PDA

  05 Aug 1942 [1942] AC 667, PC

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  SHIPPING — Prize — Civil salvage

  SHIPPING — Salvage — Services to Danish ship
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  SHIPPING — Prize — Civil salvage — Recovery of remuneration for services — Equitable jurisdiction of court.

  SHIPPING — Salvage — Services to Danish ship — Subsequent seizure of ship in prize — Requisition — Technical enemy ship — Intimation by Crown of intention to release after war — Enforcement of salvage award of Admiralty Court — Application by salvors for order that Crown proceed to condemnation — Prize Court Rules, 1939, Order v., r. 4; Order XXIX., r. 5.

  1 Case considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered