Results: 27

• Cutler v Wandsworth Stadium Ltd

  22 May 1946 [1946] KB 501, KBD

  01 Dec 1947 [1948] 1 KB 291, CA

  28 Feb 1949 [1949] AC 398, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 12 positive; 4 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 76.
  GAMING — Betting — Dog-racing track
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  GAMING — Betting — Dog-racing track — Use of totalisator — Provision for bookmakers — “Space … where they can “conveniently carry on bookmaking” — Action at suit of individual bookmaker — Betting and Lotteries Act (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 58), s. 11, sub-s. 2 (b); s. 30, sub-s. 1

  1 Statute considered

• Perera v Peiris

  13 Oct 1948 [1949] AC 1, PC

  Subsequent citations: 15.
  DEFAMATION — Ceylon — Defamation
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  DEFAMATION — Ceylon — Defamation — Bribery commission — Report — Sessional paper — Publication in newspaper — Defamatory statement — Action for damages — Privilege — Serving public interest — Roman-Dutch law — Animus injuriandi negatived — Special Commission (Auxiliary Provisions) Ordinance, No. 25 of 1942, s. 6, sub-s. 1 — Construction.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Hill v William Hill (Park Lane) Ltd

  29 Jul 1949 [1949] AC 530, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 7.
  GAMING — Gaming and wagering — Betting
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  GAMING — Gaming and wagering — Betting — Debts incurred — Report to Tattersalls — Order for payment — Inability to comply — Offer of post-dated cheque — Bookmakers refraining from enforcing order — Independent consideration — Enforceability of agreement — Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109), s. 18.

  1 Statute considered
• Labour Relations Board of Saskatchewan v John East Iron Works

  13 Oct 1948 [1949] AC 134, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 5.
  EMPLOYMENT — Canada — Saskatchewan
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  EMPLOYMENT — Canada — Saskatchewan — Labour Relations Board — Not a court analogous to a “superior, district or county court” — Trade Union Act, 1944 (St. Sask. (2nd Sess.), c. 69) (as amended by c. 108 of 1945, c. 98 of 1946 and c. 102 of 1947), s. 5 (e) — Intra vires — British North America Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict., Vict., c. 3), s. 96.

  2 Statutes considered
• Tyne Improvement Comrs v Armement Anversois S/A (The Brabo)

  19 Jan 1949 [1949] AC 326, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive. Subsequent citations: 40.
  PRACTICE — Writ — Service out of jurisdiction
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  PRACTICE — Writ — Service out of jurisdiction — Action to recover cost of wreck removal — Crown and their agents co-defendants in respect of cargo liability — Foreign shipowner — “Proper party” — “Action properly brought” -

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Inland Revenue Comrs v Reid’s Trustees

  20 Jan 1949 [1949] AC 361; [1949] 1 All ER 354; 30 TC 431, HL(Sc)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 5.
  REVENUE — Income tax — Capital and income
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  REVENUE — Income tax — Capital and income — Foreign company — Remittance to shareholder in United Kingdom — Dividend payable from capital profits — Whether income in recipient's hands — Income Tax Act, 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5 c. 40), sch. D, Case V.

  1 Statute considered

• Prudential Assurance Co Ld v Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries Ld

  06 May 1949 [1949] AC 512, HL

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  COMPANY — Reduction of Capital — Colliery company
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  COMPANY — Reduction of Capital — Colliery company — Nationalization of industry — Shareholders' rights — Preference and ordinary shares — Companies Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23), s. 55, sub-s. 1 — Coal Industry Nationalization Act, 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6, c. 59), s. 25.

  2 Statutes considered

• Mohanlal Hargovind Of Jubbulpore, Messrs v Commissioner Of Income Tax, Central Provinces and Berar, Nagpur

  28 Jul 1949 [1949] AC 521, PC

  REVENUE — Income tax — Allowance
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  REVENUE — Income tax — Allowance — Manufacture of country made cigarettes — Contractual right to pick and remove tendu leaves — Payment wholly and exclusively for purposes of business — Revenue expenditure — Deductible — Indian Income-tax Act (XI of 1922) (as amended by the Indian Income-tax (Amendment) Act, 1939), s. 10, sub-s. 2 (xii).

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Scottish Insurance Corpn Ltd v Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd

  06 May 1949 [1949] AC 462, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  COMPANY — Reduction of Capital — Impending liquidation
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  COMPANY — Reduction of Capital — Impending liquidation — Colliery company — Nationalization of industry — Shareholders' rights — Preference and ordinary shares — Companies Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23), s. 55, sub-s. 1 — Coal Industry

  2 Statutes considered
• Tankexpress A/S v Compagnie Financière Belge des Petroles SA

  09 Nov 1948 [1949] AC 76; [1948] 2 All ER 939, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 21.
  Nov. 9. LORD PORTER. My Lords, the case for the appellants can be put in the simplest possible terms. The charterparty, they say, requires payment on a specific date, which, in the events which happened, is the twenty-seventh of each month, with the right of withdrawal of the ship if payment is not made on that date: the respondents failed to pay on the due date, and consequently the ship was rightly with drawn. It matters not that the respondents carried out their part in the way usually adopted: their duty was to pay in London on the due date,