Results: 79

• Lyle & Scott Ltd v Scott’s Trustees (Lyle & Scott Ltd v British Investment Trust Ltd)

  1958 SC 230, Ct of Sess

  18 Jun 1959 [1959] AC 763; [1959] 3 WLR 133; [1959] 2 All ER 661, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 6.
  COMPANY — Shares — Transfer
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  COMPANY — Shares — Transfer — Restrictions in articles of association — Pre-emptive right of other members — Shareholder “desirous of “transferring” shares — Meaning of “transfer” — Contract by shareholder for sale of shares to third party — Violation of article — Company's right to enforce pre-emptive provisions.

  1 Case considered
• Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd v Meyer

  24 Jul 1958 [1959] AC 324; [1958] 3 WLR 404, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 6 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 37.
  COMPANY — Oppression Subsidiary company — Minority of independent shareholders
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  COMPANY — Oppression Subsidiary company — Minority of independent shareholders — Majority of nominees — Controlling powers used to destroy subsidiary company — Remedy alternative to winding up — Companies Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 38), s. 210.

  1 Statute considered

• Cade v British Transport Commission

  15 Jul 1957 [1957] 1 WLR 947, CA

  25 Jun 1958 [1959] AC 256; [1958] 3 WLR 118, HL

  RAILWAY — Statutory duty — Permanent way men

  FACT OR LAW — Degree, question of — Statutory duty
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  RAILWAY — Statutory duty — Permanent way men — Man killed on line — “Repairing the permanent way” — Tightening loose fishplate nuts — Whether work of “repairing” — Meaning of “repair” — Meaning of “working” — Whether “danger … likely to arise” — Railway Employment (Prevention of Accidents) Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 27), s. 1 — Prevention of Accidents Rules, 1902 (S.R. & O., 1902, No. 616), r. 9.

  FACT OR LAW — Degree, question of — Statutory duty — Whether “danger … likely to arise.”

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• General Nursing Council for England and Wales v St Marylebone Borough Council

  27 Jun 1957 [1957] 1 WLR 941, Ch D

  26 Nov 1957 [1958] Ch 421; [1957] 3 WLR 1039, CA

  28 Jan 1958 [1959] AC 540; [1959] 2 WLR 308, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  RATING — Rates and rating — Social welfare
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  RATING — Rates and rating — Social welfare — Health — Council required by statute to maintain register of nurses — Claim for rating relief — Advancement of “social welfare” — Meaning — Nurses Act, 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz. 2, c. 15) — Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955 (4 Eliz. 2, c. 9), s. 8.

  2 Statutes considered

• Maori Trustee v Ministry Of Works

  02 Oct 1958 [1959] AC 1, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  COMPULSORY PURCHASE — Compensation — Potentiality for building development

  NEW ZEALAND.
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  COMPULSORY PURCHASE — Compensation — Potentiality for building development — Principles applicable — Maori land — (New Zealand) Finance Act (No. 3), 1944, s. 29 (1) (b) — Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 57), s. 2.

  NEW ZEALAND.

  1 Statute considered
• Inland Revenue Comrs v Wood Bros (Birkenhead) Ltd

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 2.

• Mohamed Haji Abdulla v Ghela Manek Shah

  01 Dec 1958 [1959] AC 124, PC

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Contract — Sale of rent-restricted property

  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Eastern africa (kenya) — Vendor and purchaser.
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  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Contract — Sale of rent-restricted property — Surrender of tenancy between contract and completion — Duty of vendor not to relet without consulting purchaser — Indian Transfer of Property Act (IV of 1882), s. 55 (1) (e) — English principles applicable.

  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Eastern africa (kenya) — Vendor and purchaser.

  1 Statute considered

• Ewa Perkowski v Wellington Corpn

  14 Oct 1958 [1959] AC 53, PC

  LICENCE — Licensor and licensee — Licensee

  LICENCE — Licensor and licensee — Invitee or licensee

  NEGLIGENCE — New zealand — Negligence.
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  LICENCE — Licensor and licensee — Licensee — Duty of occupier — Fatal dive into shallow water — No concealed danger — Local authority occupier of diving board — Deceased a licensee — No general duty of care.

  LICENCE — Licensor and licensee — Invitee or licensee — Duty of occupier — Distinction. — Court of Appeal — Argument not raised below — Discretion of appellate court to entertain — New Zealand.

  NEGLIGENCE — New zealand — Negligence.
• Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd v Adamastos Shipping Co Ltd

  01 Feb 1957 [1957] 2 QB 233; [1957] 2 WLR 509, QBD

  01 Feb 1957 [1957] 2 QB 233; [1957] 2 WLR 968, CA

  06 Mar 1958 [1959] AC 133; [1958] 2 WLR 688, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 4 neutral. Subsequent citations: 35.
  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Clause paramount

  CONTRACT — Construction — Repugnancy.

  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Consecutive voyage charter
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  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Clause paramount — “This bill of lading” subject to Act — Whether clause meaningless — Hague Rules — “Loss or damage arising … from unseaworthiness” — Meaning of loss or damage” — Whether applicable to non-cargo carrying voyages — Whether applicable only to physical loss or damage — (United States) Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1936 (Public, No. 521, 74th Congress), ss. 2, 3 (1), 4 (1) (2), 5 and 13 — Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1924 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, c. 22), Sch., Arts. II, III, rr. 1, 8; IV, rr. 1, 2; V.

  CONTRACT — Construction — Repugnancy.

  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Consecutive voyage charter — Extent and nature of owners' obligations to provide and maintain seaworthy vessel during “the voyage” — Continuing warranty of seaworthiness, perils of sea excepted — “Proceed with all convenient despatch” — Vessel rendered unseaworthy by incompetence of staff — Owners vicariously liable for negligence of servants despite owners' exercise of due diligence in selection and appointment of staff — Delays — Whether claim for loss of services of vessel sustainable — Basis for assessment of damages.
• Haynes v Qualcast (Wolverhampton) Ltd

  24 Jan 1958 [1958] 1 WLR 225; [1958] 1 All ER 441, CA (Lord Evershed M.R., Parker and Sellers L.JJ.)

  15 Apr 1958 Petition for leave to appeal to House of Lords allowed [1958] 1 WLR 491, HL(E)

  25 Mar 1959 [1959] AC 743; [1959] 2 WLR 510; [1959] 2 All ER 38, HL(E) (Lord Radcliffe, Lord Cohen, Lord Keith of Avonholm, Lord Somervell of Harrow, Lord Denning)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 8.
  NEGLIGENCE — Safe system of work — General precautions

  CAUSATION — Negligence — Contributory negligence.

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Question of fact — Jury question
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  NEGLIGENCE — Safe system of work — General precautions — Metal moulding — Protective clothing available for workman — No orders or advice to wear it — Workman injured — Employers' liability.

  CAUSATION — Negligence — Contributory negligence.

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Question of fact — Jury question — Decision of judge on it not a precedent. — Fact or Law — Negligence — Standard of care — Always a question of fact. Law Report — Reporting of decisions — No principle of law — Standard of care issue in action for negligence

  4 Case(s) considered