Results: 36

• Arieh Zvi Lipshitz v Haim Aron Valero

  31 Jul 1947 [1948] AC 1, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  JURISDICTION — Palestine — Supreme Court

  APPEAL — Appeal to privy council — Value of “matter in dispute”
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  JURISDICTION — Palestine — Supreme Court — Appellate jurisdiction — Appeals from District Court as court of first instance only — Palestine Order in Council, 1922 (St. R. & O. 1922, No. 1282), art. 43 — Magistrates' Courts Jurisdiction Ordinance, No. 45 of 1939, s. 12 — Ultra vires.

  APPEAL — Appeal to privy council — Value of “matter in dispute” — Palestine (Appeal to Privy Council) Order in Council, 1924 (St. R. & O. 1924, No. 1243).

  3 Statutory Instruments considered

• Glasgow Corpn v Bruce or Neilson

  28 Jul 1947 [1948] AC 79, HL

  MASTER AND SERVANT — Common employment — Omnibus service run by local authority
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  MASTER AND SERVANT — Common employment — Omnibus service run by local authority — Collision between vehicles — Negligence of driver of one vehicle — Injury to conductress of other vehicle — Liability of local authority.

• Illston & Robson Ltd v Smith

  30 Apr 1948 [1948] AC 384, HL

  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Injury by accident
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  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Injury by accident — Partial incapacity — Diminution of earnings — Economic change in industry — Weekly payments — Calculation — Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 1, sub-s. 1; s. 9, sub-s. 3 (i.).

  1 Statute considered

• Patterson v District Commissioner Of Accra

  03 Mar 1948 [1948] AC 341, PC

  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — West africa — Proclaimed district
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — West africa — Proclaimed district — Cost of additional police — Assessment — Ministerial act — Execution — Attachment — Prohibition — Peace Preservation Ordinance (Laws of the Gold Coast, 1936 Revision, c. 40), s. 9.
• Franklin v Minister of Town and Country Planning

  24 Jul 1947 [1948] AC 87, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 15.
  PLANNING — Town and country planning — New town
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  PLANNING — Town and country planning — New town — Objections to draft order — Public local inquiry — Bias — Functions of Minister — Conduct of inquiry — Town and Country Planning Act, 1944 (7 & 8 Geo. 6, c. 47), s. 16, sub-s. 1 (b) — New Towns Act, 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6, c. 68), s. 1, sub-ss. 1, 2; sch. I, para. 3.

  2 Statutes considered
• Winter Garden Theatre (London) Ltd v Millennium Productions Ltd

  29 Jul 1947 [1948] AC 173, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 2 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 21.
  LICENCE — Theatre — Licensor and licensee
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  LICENCE — Theatre — Licensor and licensee — Licence for six months — Option to continue for six months — Further option to continue — Power of licensor to determine licence.

• Stenor Ltd v Whitesides (Clitheroe) Ltd

  02 Jul 1947 [1948] AC 107, HL

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  DESIGN — Infringement — Validity
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  DESIGN — Infringement — Validity — “New or original” — Merely functional device — Patents and Designs Acts, 1907–1942 — Act of 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 29), s. 49, sub-s. 1, s. 93 (as amended).

  2 Statutes considered
• National Anti-Vivisection Society v Inland Revenue Comrs

  02 Jul 1947 [1948] AC 31, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 5 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 23.
  CHARITY — Revenue — Income tax
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  CHARITY — Revenue — Income tax — Exemption of charities — Body “established for charitable purposes only” — Abolition of vivisection — Income Tax Act, 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 40), s. 37, sub-s. 1 (b).

  1 Statute considered

• Battan Singh v Amirchand

  08 Dec 1947 [1948] AC 161, PC

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  FIJI — Will — Testator enfeebled by disease
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  FIJI — Will — Testator enfeebled by disease — Memory deficient — Existence of near relatives forgotten — Estate left to strangers — Will invalid.
• Smith’s Potato Estates Ltd v Bolland

  14 Jul 1948 [1948] AC 508, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 6.
  REVENUE — Income tax — Excess profits tax
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  REVENUE — Income tax — Excess profits tax — Deductions against profits — Litigation to reduce tax assessment — Legal and accountancy expenses — Whether “money wholly and exclusively laid out or expended for the purposes of the trade” —

  1 Statute considered