Results: 95

• Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor (Koh Chai Cheng v Public Prosecutor)

  15 Oct 1980 [1981] AC 648; [1980] 3 WLR 855, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 42.
  CONSTITUTION — Singapore — Constitution

  CRIME — Singapore — Crime
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  CONSTITUTION — Singapore — Constitution — Statutory rebuttable presumption — Possession of more than two grammes of heroin presumed trafficking — Whether unconstitutional — Whether death sentence for trafficking in more than 15 grammes of heroin unconstitutional — Constitution of Republic of Singapore (reprint March 31, 1980), arts 9 (1), 12 (1) — Misuse of Drugs Act 1973, ss 15, 29 (as amended by Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act 1975, ss 5, 9, 13)

  CRIME — Singapore — Crime — Drugs — Trafficking — More than two grammes of heroin conveyed by car — Whether “transport” — Statutory presumption of “trafficking” when in possession of more than two grammes of heroin — Whether rebutted — Misuse of Drugs Act 1973, ss 2 (a), 3, 10, 15 (as amended by Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act 1975, ss 3, 5)

  CONSTITUTION — Singapore — Constitution — Statutory rebuttable presumption — Possession of more than two grammes of heroin presumed trafficking — Whether unconstitutional — Whether death sentence for trafficking in more than 15 grammes of heroin unconstitutional — Constitution of Republic of Singapore (reprint 31 March 1980), arts 9(1), 12(1) — Misuse of Drugs Act 1973, ss 15, 29 (as amended by Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act 1975, ss 5, 9, 13)

  CRIME — Singapore — Crime — Drugs — Trafficking — More than two grammes of heroin conveyed by car — Whether “transport” — Statutory presumption of “trafficking” when in possession of more than two grammes of heroin — Whether rebutted — Misuse of Drugs Act 1973, ss 2(a), 3, 10, 15 (as amended by Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act 1975, ss 3, 5)

  4 Words & Phrases considered

  4 Overseas Enactments considered
• Attorney-General v British Broadcasting Corpn (Dible v British Broadcasting Corpn)

  17 Feb 1978 [1978] 1 WLR 477; [1978] 2 All ER 731; 76 LGR 386, DC

  11 Apr 1979 [1981] AC 303; [1979] 3 WLR 312; [1979] 3 All ER 45; 78 LGR 137, CA

  12 Jun 1980 [1981] AC 303; [1980] 3 WLR 109; [1980] 3 All ER 161; 78 LGR 529, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 56.
  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Inferior court — Local valuation court

  RATING — Local valuation court — Status
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  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Inferior court — Local valuation court — Whether “court” for purpose of protection from contempt by High Court — Characteristics of inferior court — RSC, Ord 52, r 1 (2) (a) (iii)

  RATING — Local valuation court — Status — Whether “court” for purpose of protection from contempt — General Rate Act 1967 (c. 9), ss. 76 (1) (2), 88 (5) — R.S.C., Ord. 52, r. 1 (2) (a) (iii)

  8 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Rank Xerox Ltd v Lane

  09 Mar 1977 [1978] Ch 1; [1977] 3 WLR 410; [1977] 3 All ER 593; (1977) 53 TC 185, Ch D (Slade J)

  12 May 1978 [1979] Ch 113; [1978] 3 WLR 643; [1978] 2 All ER 1124; (1977) 53 TC 185, CA

  25 Oct 1979 [1981] AC 629; [1979] 3 WLR 594; [1979] 3 All ER 657; (1977) 53 TC 185, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 10.
  REVENUE — Corporation tax — Allowance of charges on income
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  REVENUE — Corporation tax — Allowance of charges on income — Company's rights to payments from overseas company pursuant to agreements executed under seal — Disposal by distribution to shareholders — Whether payments “due under a covenant” — Whether “annual payments” — Whether company relieved from liability on notional gain arising from distribution of its rights to payments — Finance Act 1965, Sch 7, para 12(c)

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Midland Bank Trust Co Ltd v Green

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 24.
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  1 Statute considered
• In re Racal Communications Ltd (In re a Company (No 00996 of 1979), In re A)

  31 Jul 1979 [1980] Ch 138; [1980] 2 WLR 241; [1980] 1 All ER 284, CA

  03 Jul 1980 [1981] AC 374; [1980] 3 WLR 181; [1980] 2 All ER 634, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 76.
  COMPANY — Officer — “Manager” or “officer”

  COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) — Jurisdiction — Judge's decision “not … appealable”
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  COMPANY — Officer — “Manager” or “officer” — Allegation of false accounting by departmental manager — Jurisdiction to order production and inspection of books — Companies Act 1948, s 441(1)(3)

  COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) — Jurisdiction — Judge's decision “not … appealable” — Error of law in construction of statute — Whether jurisdiction to hear appeal — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925, ss 27(1), 33(1)(d) — Companies Act 1948, s 441(3)

  5 Case(s) considered

  6 Words & Phrases considered

  3 Statutes considered
• Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v Department of Health and Social Security

  05 Feb 1981 [1981] AC 800; [1981] 2 WLR 279; [1981] 1 All ER 545, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 9 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 78.
  MEDICAL PRACTITIONER — Abortion — Termination
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  MEDICAL PRACTITIONER — Abortion — Termination — Termination of pregnancy by medical induction — Part of procedure carried out by nurses acting on instructions of registered medical practitioner — Whether pregnancy “terminated by a registered medical practitioner” — Abortion Act 1967, s 1(1)

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Hanlon v The Law Society

  21 Jun 1979 [1981] AC 124; [1980] 2 WLR 756, Fam D (Reeve J)

  04 Dec 1979 [1981] AC 124; [1980] 2 WLR 756; [1980] 1 All ER 763, CA (Lord Denning MR, Sir John Arnold P, and Donaldson LJ)

  01 May 1980 [1981] AC 124; [1980] 2 WLR 756; [1980] 2 All ER 199, HL(E) ( Lord Edmund-Davies, Lord Simon of Glaisdale, Lord Fraser of Tullybelton, Lord Scarman and Lord Lowry)

  Subsequent considerations : 10 positive; 3 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 75.
  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Legal aid

  LEGAL AID — Costs — Charge on property
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  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Legal aid — Costs — Divorce — Property adjustment order following divorce — Charge on property recovered or preserved for benefit of legal aid fund — Whether matrimonial home as sole capital asset suitable subject for charge

  LEGAL AID — Costs — Charge on property — Property adjustment order — Divorce — House owned by husband — Legally aided wife claiming transfer — Husband disputing claim — Court ordering transfer to wife — Single legal aid certificate covering divorce proceedings and property adjustment proceedings — Whether legal aid fund entitled to charge on house — Whether house “property … recovered or preserved” — Whether recovered or preserved “in the proceedings” — Whether discretion in The Law Society to postpone enforcement of charge or accept charge on substitute security — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 24 (1) (a) — Legal Aid Act 1974, s 9 (6) — Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1971 (as amended by Legal Aid (General) (Amendment No 2) Regulations 1976, reg 2 and Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1977, reg 7), reg 18 (10) (c) (i)

  LEGAL AID — Costs — Charge on property — Divorce — Property adjustment order — House owned by husband — Legally aided wife claiming transfer — Husband disputing claim — Court ordering transfer to wife — Single legal aid certificate covering divorce proceedings and property adjustment proceedings — Whether legal aid fund entitled to charge on house — Whether house “property … recovered or preserved” — Whether recovered or preserved “in the proceedings” — Whether discretion in Law Society to postpone enforcement of charge or accept charge on substitute security — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 24(1)(a) — Legal Aid Act 1974, s 9(6) — Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1971 (as amended by Legal Aid (General) (Amendment No 2) Regulations 1976, reg 2 and Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1977, reg 7), reg 18(10)(c)(i)

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered
• Customs and Excise Comrs v J H Corbitt (Numismatists) Ltd

  01 Mar 1979 [1981] AC 22; [1979] 3 WLR 291, CA

  01 Apr 1980 [1981] AC 22; [1980] 2 WLR 653; [1980] 2 All ER 72; [1980] STC 231, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 neutral. Subsequent citations: 13.
  REVENUE — Value added tax — Assessment
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  REVENUE — Value added tax — Assessment — Appeal against assessment — Scheme for reducing tax on sale of secondhand goods — Scheme not applicable unless dealer's records such as commissioners “may recognise as sufficient” — Records not accepted as sufficient — Whether commissioners' decision open to review on appeal — Finance Act 1972, ss 31 (1), 40 (1) (b) — Value Added Tax (Works of Art, Antiques and Scientific Collections) Order 1972, art 3 (5)

  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• United Kingdom Association of Professional Engineers v Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service

  17 Jan 1979 [1979] 1 WLR 570; [1979] ICR 303; [1979] 2 All ER 478, CA

  14 Feb 1980 [1981] AC 424; [1980] 2 WLR 254; [1980] ICR 201; [1980] 1 All ER 612, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 10.
  TRADE UNION — Recognition issue — Reference to Acas
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  TRADE UNION — Recognition issue — Reference to Acas — Union refused recognition by employers having existing nationally agreed collective bargaining arrangements — Acas reporting on issue — Report having regard to possible damage to industrial relations — Duties of Acas in preparing report — Court's powers of judicial review — Validity of report — Employment Protection Act 1975, ss 1 (2), 12 (4)

  TRADE UNION — Recognition issue — Reference to Acas — Union refused recognition by employers having existing nationally agreed collective bargaining arrangements — Acas reporting on issue — Report having regard to possible damage to industrial relations — Duties of Acas in preparing report — Court's power of judicial review — Validity of report — Employment Protection Act 1975, ss 1(2), 12(4)

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Bremer Vulkan Schiffbau und Maschinenfabrik v South India Shipping Corpn (Gregg v Raytheon Ltd)

  10 Apr 1979 [1981] AC 909; [1979] 3 WLR 471; [1979] 3 All ER 194, QBD

  23 Nov 1979 [1981] AC 909; [1980] 2 WLR 905; [1980] 1 All ER 420; [1980] 1 Lloyd's Rep 255, CA

  22 Jan 1981 [1981] AC 909; [1981] 2 WLR 141; [1981] 1 All ER 289; [1981] 1 Lloyd's Rep 253, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 8 positive; 7 neutral; 3 negative. Subsequent citations: 98.
  ARBITRATION — Arbitrator — Jurisdiction

  ARBITRATION — Injunction to restrain — Delay in prosecuting claim

  INJUNCTION — Jurisdiction to grant — Arbitration proceedings
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  ARBITRATION — Arbitrator — Jurisdiction — Inordinate and inexcusable delay in prosecution of claim — Whether jurisdiction in arbitrator to dismiss claim for want of prosecution — Whether jurisdiction in court to restrain claimant from proceeding in arbitration — Parties' obligation to prevent inordinate delay — Duty to apply to arbitrator

  ARBITRATION — Injunction to restrain — Delay in prosecuting claim — Inordinate and inexcusable delay in prosecution of claim — Whether claimant under duty not to so delay — Court's jurisdiction to restrain party continuing with arbitration for repudiatory breach of arbitration agreement

  INJUNCTION — Jurisdiction to grant — Arbitration proceedings — Inordinate and inexcusable delay in prosecution of claim — Whether claimant under duty not to so delay — Court's jurisdiction to restrain party continuing with arbitration for repudiatory breach of arbitration agreement

  12 Case(s) considered