Results: 112

• Ajit v Sammy

  12 Jul 1966 [1967] 1 AC 255; [1966] 3 WLR 983, PC

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  BRITISH GUIANA — Contract — Sale of land

  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Completion — Delay in completion
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  BRITISH GUIANA — Contract — Sale of land — Time not the essence — Purchaser's unnecessary delay — Vendor's notice requiring completion in six days — Whether reasonable

  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Completion — Delay in completion — By purchaser — Time not the essence of contract — Notice by vendor requiring completion in six days — Whether reasonable

  1 Case considered

• Earl of Antrim’s Petition

  24 Nov 1966 [1967] 1 AC 691; [1966] 3 WLR 1141, HL

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  PARLIAMENT — Peerage — Irish peers
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  PARLIAMENT — Peerage — Irish peers — Petition for steps to be taken for the election of 28 representative Irish peers to the House of Lords — Union with Ireland Act, 1800 — Irish Free State (Agreement) Act, 1922

  2 Statutes considered

• Mawaz Khan v The Queen

  07 Nov 1966 [1967] 1 AC 454; [1965] 3 WLR 1275; [1966] 3 WLR 1275; [1967] 1 All ER 80, PC

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  CRIME — Evidence — Hearsay

  EVIDENCE — Hong kong — Evidence
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  CRIME — Evidence — Hearsay — Admissible to show fact that statement was made — Charge of murder — Defence of alibi — Hearsay evidence not admissible to establish truth of the statement

  EVIDENCE — Hong kong — Evidence — Hearsay — Admissible to show fact that statement was made — Not admissible to establish truth of statement — Charge of murder — Defence of alibi — Relevancy of evidence to show that accused acted in concert

  2 Case(s) considered

• Rakar v The Queen

  30 Jun 1966 [1967] 1 AC 241; [1966] 3 WLR 986, PC

  CRIME — Summing up — Circumstances calculated to arouse suspicion
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  CRIME — Summing up — Circumstances calculated to arouse suspicion — Limited evidence against one of three defendants — Necessity for warning to jury — Reference to be made to defendant's denials

  2 Overseas Enactments considered
• Maradana Mosque Trustees v Mahmud

  19 Jan 1966 [1967] 1 AC 13; [1966] 2 WLR 921; [1966] 1 All ER 545, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 8.
  EDUCATION — Ceylon — Education

  NATURAL JUSTICE — Opportunity to meet charge — Right to be informed of charge
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  EDUCATION — Ceylon — Education — Ministerial decision — Judicial or quasi-judicial decision of Minister — Duty to give opportunity of making representations in answering charge — Need for notice of charge — Opportunity of being heard — Minister's failure to consider the right questions — Failure to make decisions which were the requisite foundation of the Minister's order — Failure to exercise discretion — Error of law on face of record — Infringement of rules of natural justice

  NATURAL JUSTICE — Opportunity to meet charge — Right to be informed of charge — Ceylon — Minister — Quasi-judicial decision

  1 Overseas Enactment considered

• National and Grindlays Bank Ltd v Dharamshi Vallabhji

  10 May 1966 [1967] 1 AC 207; [1966] 3 WLR 294; [1966] 2 All ER 626, PC

  BANKING — Eastern africa — Kenya
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  BANKING — Eastern africa — Kenya — Instrument — Validity — Effect of non-attestation — Overdraft facilities granted by bank on security of letter of hypothecation giving bank power to sieze stock-in-trade debtors — Grantors' signatures not attested — Whether letter of hypothecation valid as between parties — (Kenya) Chattels Transfer Ordinance, 1930, ss 4, 15

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Overseas Enactment considered

• Rahar v The Queen

  CRIME — Sierra leone — Crime
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  CRIME — Sierra leone — Crime — Majority verdict — Finding of guilty by two-thirds majority of jury accepted by court — Misdirection in summing up — Effect of acceptance of verdict on appeal — Jurors and Assessors Ordinance (Laws of Sierra Leone, 1960 Rev, c 38), s 27 — Courts (Appeals) Ordinance, 1960, s 20 (1), proviso

• Devan Nair v Young Kuan Teik

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  PRIVY COUNCIL — Jurisdiction — Election petition
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  PRIVY COUNCIL — Jurisdiction — Election petition — Interlocutory order — Petition struck out by election judge for non-compliance with rules of service — Leave to appeal on basis that order interlocutory — Leave to appeal to Privy Council given by Federal Court of Appeal — Jurisdiction to hear appeal — Undesirability of entertaining interlocutory appeals in election petitions unless question raised of exceptional public importance — Interpretation of rules — Malaysia Election Offences Ordinance (No 9 of 1954), ss 33, 38, Sch 2, rr 10, 15 — Courts of Judicature Act, 1964, ss 67, 74
• The Miraflores and The Abadesa

  15 Jul 1965 [1965] 2 Lloyd's Rep 254, PDA (Hewson J)

  13 Dec 1965 [1966] P 18; [1966] 2 WLR 347; [1966] 1 All ER 553; [1966] 1 Lloyd's Rep 97, CA

  16 Feb 1967 [1967] 1 AC 826; [1967] 2 WLR 806; [1967] 1 All ER 672; [1967] 1 Lloyd's Rep 191, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 13.
  SHIPPING — Collision — Apportionment of liability
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  SHIPPING — Collision — Apportionment of liability — Collision between two ships — Partially consequent grounding of third ship — All three ships negligent — Individual assessment of liability of each vessel involved — “Fault” — Maritime Conventions Act, 1911, s 1 (1)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered
• West Bank Estates Ltd v Arthur

  11 Jul 1966 [1967] 1 AC 665; [1966] 3 WLR 750, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 6.
  PRESCRIPTION — Land — Prescription
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  PRESCRIPTION — Land — Prescription — Land lying between lands of legal owner and claimant — Acts of cultivation — Whether sufficient to prove sole possession — Whether consistent with enjoyment by true owner — “Sole and undisturbed possession, user or enjoyment” — Whether related to physical characteristics of land — Presence of dam — Whether evidence of boundary — Laws of British Guiana, 1953 Rev, vol IV, c 184, s 3

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Overseas Enactment considered