Results: 40

• Comr for Stamp Duties of New South Wales v Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd

  15 Apr 1943 [1943] AC 425, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 10.
  REVENUE — Australia (new south wales) — Revenue
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  REVENUE — Australia (new south wales) — Revenue — Death duty — Settlement — Trust — Gift of equitable interest in shares — Bona fide possession and enjoyment assumed by donee immediately upon the gift — Retention to entire exclusion of donor — Shares not part of settlor's dutiable estate — New South Wales Stamp Duties Act, No. 47 of 1920, s. 102, sub-s. 2 (d).

  1 Statute considered
• Bourhill v Young

  05 Aug 1942 [1943] AC 92, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 7 positive; 5 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 55.
  NEGLIGENCE — Mental or nervous shock — Person affected beyond area of potential danger
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  NEGLIGENCE — Mental or nervous shock — Person affected beyond area of potential danger — Noise of collision of motor vehicles.

• Potts Or Riddell v Reid

  15 Jun 1942 [1943] AC 1, HL

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  NEGLIGENCE — Building operations — Accident to workman
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  NEGLIGENCE — Building operations — Accident to workman — Machinery used for construction of building — “Area of building under construction” — Working platform on scaffolding — Plank not conforming to Building Regulations, 1926 — Misconduct of fellow-workman — Employer's liability — Building Regulations, 1926 (St. R. & O. 1926, No. 738), preamble, para. 7 — Factories Act, 1937 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 67), s. 137, sub-s. 1.

  1 Statute considered

  2 Statutory Instruments considered

• Akerele v R

  07 Dec 1942 [1943] AC 255, PC

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  CRIME — West africa — Criminal law
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  CRIME — West africa — Criminal law — Manslaughter — Negligence — Medical practitioner — Overdose of dangerous drug — Evidence — Evidence of other cases to rebut defence of idiosyncracy in relation to drug — Exercise of prerogative.

• Hanna Eissa Kawas v Bishara Elias Kawas

  24 Jun 1943 [1943] AC 532, PC

  JURISDICTION — Palestine — Court of Christian community
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  JURISDICTION — Palestine — Court of Christian community — Consensual jurisdiction in matters of personal status — Guardianship of minors — Need of consent of all interested parties — Application for appointment of guardian — “Suit” or “action” — Palestine Order in Council, 1922, ss. 43, 51, 54 (i.) (ii.).

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd

  15 Jun 1942 [1943] AC 32, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 69.
  CONTRACT — Frustration — Payment on account of purchase price
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  CONTRACT — Frustration — Payment on account of purchase price — Recovery — Failure of consideration.

• Marrache v Ashton

  22 Jan 1943 [1943] AC 311, PC

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  MORTGAGE — Gibraltar — Mortgage
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  MORTGAGE — Gibraltar — Mortgage — Currency — Covenant to pay Spanish pesetas — Measure of damages for breach — Bank of Spain peseta notes legal tender in Spain — Market in Gibraltar — Gibraltar market rate applicable.
• Sovfracht (V/O) v Van Udens Scheepvaart En Agentuur Maatschappij (NV Gebr)

  03 Dec 1942 [1943] AC 203, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 1.
  ALIEN — Enemy — Company incorporated in allied State occupied by enemy
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  ALIEN — Enemy — Company incorporated in allied State occupied by enemy — Right to take proceedings in English courts — Effect of occupation of allied State — Solicitor — Retainer — Termination — Client acquiring enemy status.

• Attorney-General For Alberta v Attorney-General For Canada

  01 Feb 1943 [1943] AC 356, PC (Viscount Maugham, Lord Russell Of Killowen, Lord Macmillan, Lord Romer, Lord Clauson.)

  STATUTE — Canada (alberta) — Debt Adjustment Act
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  STATUTE — Canada (alberta) — Debt Adjustment Act — Constitutional validity — Insolvency legislation — Ultra vires provincial legislature — Debt Adjustment Act, Statutes of Alberta, 1937, c. 9, as amended to c. 42 of 1941 — British North America Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 3), s. 91 (21.).

  2 Statutes considered
• Tritonia Ltd v Equity and Law Life Assurance Society

  05 Aug 1943 [1943] AC 584, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 4.
  HOUSE OF LORDS — Practice — Company
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  HOUSE OF LORDS — Practice — Company — Representation by counsel.