Results: 153

• R v Melvin

  19 Jan 1953 [1953] 1 QB 481; [1953] 2 WLR 274, CCA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative.
  CRIME — Criminal law — Appeal
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  CRIME — Criminal law — Appeal — Alternative counts — Acquittal on larceny count — Conviction for receiving — Court's power to substitute correct verdict — Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 23), s. 5 (2).

  1 Statute considered

• H E Daniels Ltd v Carmel Exporters And Importers Ltd

  08 Jun 1953 [1953] 2 QB 242, QBD

  ARBITRATION — Contract — Sale of goods
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  ARBITRATION — Contract — Sale of goods — Right to submit “any dispute” arising out of the contract — Separate arbitrations on different disputes — Two awards — Res judicata — Question of law — Failure to state a case — Failure of motion to set aside — Final award binding.
• Davies v Du Paver

  06 Nov 1952 [1953] 1 QB 184, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 5.
  PRESCRIPTION — Profit — Claim to pasture rights by prescription
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  PRESCRIPTION — Profit — Claim to pasture rights by prescription — Interruption of user — Protests by owner of dominant tenement followed by submission to interruption for more than one year — User as of right — Servient tenement occupied by sitting tenants during most of period of prescription — Common knowledge of grazing rights in locality — Onus of proof as to owner's knowledge and power to resist claim to private right — Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 71), ss. 1, 4, 5.

  1 Statute considered
• Marshall v Gotham Co Ltd

  21 Nov 1952 [1953] 1 QB 167, CA

  01 Apr 1954 [1954] AC 360; [1954] 2 WLR 812; [1954] 1 All ER 937, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 18.
  MINES — Mines and minerals — Metalliferous mines

  FACTORY — Practicability of precautions. “Reasonably practicable.”
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  MINES — Mines and minerals — Metalliferous mines — Regulations — Breach of statutory duty — Fall of roof — Caused by slickenside — Duty to make roof secure “so far as may be reasonably practicable” — System of tapping — No propping — Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 77), s. 23 — Metalliferous Mines General Regulations, 1938 (S.R. & O. No. 630), reg. 7 (3).

  FACTORY — Practicability of precautions. “Reasonably practicable.”

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Webster v General Accident Fire And Life Assurance Corpn Ltd

  11 Feb 1953 [1953] 1 QB 520, QBD

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  INSURANCE — Motor-vehicle — “Loss”

  CONTRACT — Condition — Written notice of occurrence
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  INSURANCE — Motor-vehicle — “Loss” — Fraudulent possession of car by agent of owner — Sale by agent in own name — Police inform owner recovery unlikely — No further steps by owner to recover car — Whether a “loss” within meaning of policy.

  CONTRACT — Condition — Written notice of occurrence — Insurer's acquiescence in informal discussion — Waiver.

• R v Twickenham Rent Tribunal, Ex parte Dunn

  22 Jul 1953 [1953] 2 QB 425; [1953] 3 WLR 517, DC

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent tribunal — Flat
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent tribunal — Flat — Determination of rent — Application to rent tribunal — Not authorized by tenant — Applicant deserted wife of tenant — Whether wife agent of husband — Landlord and Tenant (Rent Control) Act, 1949 (12 & 13 Geo. 6, c. 40), s. 1.

  1 Statute considered

• Sheldon v Brown Bayley’s Steel Works Ltd And Dawnays Ltd

  15 Jun 1953 [1953] 1 WLR 875, QBD

  22 Jul 1953 [1953] 2 QB 393; [1953] 3 WLR 542, CA

  Subsequent citations: 6.
  PRACTICE — Writ — Service
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  PRACTICE — Writ — Service — Failure to serve within twelve months — Whether writ a nullity — Effect of unconditional appearance — R.S.C., Ord. 8, r. 1; Ord. 70, r. 1.

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart v Slatford

  [1953] 1 QB 248, CA

  01 Apr 1954 [1954] AC 584; [1954] 2 WLR 867, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 31.
  CROWN — Prerogative — Revenue

  INTERNATIONAL LAW — Foreign legislation transferring movable property in England — Whether enforceable in England

  REVENUE — Income tax. Trading with the Enemy.
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  CROWN — Prerogative — Revenue — Immunity — Crown servant — Custodian of Enemy Property — Income of investments of property by Custodian — Income tax exemption — Trading with the Enemy Act, 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6, c. 89), s. 7.

  INTERNATIONAL LAW — Foreign legislation transferring movable property in England — Whether enforceable in England — Decree of allied government in London — Public policy.

  REVENUE — Income tax. Trading with the Enemy.

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Bicknell v Brosnan

  24 Apr 1953 [1953] 2 QB 77, DC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  MILITARY LAW — National service — Ireland
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  MILITARY LAW — National service — Ireland — Applicability of English statutes passed before 1949 to citizens of Republic of Ireland — Liability of Irish citizens to national service if ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom — Temporary residence — National Service Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 64), s. 34 (4) — British Nationality Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 56), s. 3 (2) — Ireland Act, 1949 (12 & 13 Geo. 6, c. 41), s. 3 (1), (2).

  1 Statute considered
• D’Almeida Araujo (J) Lda v Sir Frederick Becker & Co Ltd

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 5.