Results: 113

• Jones v Mersey River Board

  08 Oct 1957 [1958] 1 QB 143, CA

  LAND DRAINAGE — Compensation — Spoil deposited on riparian land
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  LAND DRAINAGE — Compensation — Spoil deposited on riparian land — Liability of river board — “Banks” — Land Drainage Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 44), ss. 34 (1) (3), 38 (1), 81.

  1 Statute considered

• Derbyshire Miners’ Welfare Committee v Skegness Urban District Council

  09 May 1957 [1957] 1 WLR 764, QBD

  26 Nov 1957 [1958] 1 QB 298; [1957] 3 WLR 1048, CA

  RATING — Rates and rating — “Social welfare”
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  RATING — Rates and rating — “Social welfare” — Health — Miners' welfare holiday camp — Trustees occupying premises used for “purpose of a holiday centre … for the benefit of” coal miners, their dependants and invitees — Provision of cost-price holidays — Organization not established or conducted for profit — Whether “social welfare” — Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955 (4 Eliz. 2, c. 9), s. 8 (1) (a).

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Law (Valuation Officer) v Wandsworth Borough Council

  11 Jul 1957 [1958] 1 QB 19, CA

  RATING — Rates and rating — Crematoria

  CEMETERY — Cremation.
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  RATING — Rates and rating — Crematoria — Acquired under Burial Act, 1852 — Whether qualified for rating relief afforded to burial grounds — Meaning of “deemed” — Burial Act, 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 85), s. 26 — Burial Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 128), s. 15 — Cremation Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 8), s. 4.

  CEMETERY — Cremation.

  1 Statute considered

• Piper v Harvey

  06 Feb 1958 [1958] 1 QB 439, CA

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Possession application
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Possession application — Greater hardship — Whether proviso as to greater hardship repealed by Act of 1957 — Evidence of greater hardship — Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions (Amendment) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 32), Sch. I, para. (h), proviso — Rent Act, 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz. 2, c. 25), Sch. 6, para. 21.

  1 Statute considered

• Warner v Sampson

  13 Jan 1958 [1958] 1 QB 404; [1958] 2 WLR 212, QBD

  18 Dec 1958 [1959] 1 QB 297; [1959] 2 WLR 109, CA

  Subsequent citations: 11.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Forfeiture of lease — Repudiation of landlord's title

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Action for possession

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Amendment

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — General traverse
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Forfeiture of lease — Repudiation of landlord's title — Action by landlord for possession — General denial of statement of claim. in defence — No affirmative setting up of adverse title — Whether general denial creates forfeiture — Defence amended to admit landlord's title before any effective step taken by landlord to claim forfeiture — Effect of amendment.

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Action for possession — General denial — Whether causing forfeiture of lease.

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Amendment — Effect — Retroactive — Amendment of defence to admit landlord's title before any effective step taken by landlord to claim forfeiture — Whether amendment effective to exclude right to forfeiture.

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — General traverse — No effective distinction between denial and non-admission — General traverse putting plaintiff to proof.
• Pyx Granite Co Ltd v Ministry Of Housing And Local Government

  07 Feb 1958 [1958] 1 QB 554; [1958] 2 WLR 371, CA

  06 Jul 1959 [1960] AC 260; [1959] 3 WLR 346, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 15 positive; 8 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 95.
  PLANNING — Town and country planning — Development

  PRACTICE — Practice and procedure — Declaratory judgment

  STATUTE — Construction — Jurisdiction of High Court

  CROWN PRACTICE — Certiorari — Inferior tribunal
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  PLANNING — Town and country planning — Development — “Authorised by Act” — Private Act enacting that heads of agreement between parties “are hereby confirmed and made binding” on parties — Whether provisions binding as a contract or as a statute — Whether permission required — Quarrying — Permission granted subject to conditions imposed by Minister — Whether conditions related to permitted development valid without provision for compensation — Malvern Hills Act, 1924 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, c. xxxvi), s. 54, Sch. 4 — Town and Country Planning Act, 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6, c. 51), ss. 14, 15, 17, 26, 27 — Town and Country Planning General Development Order, 1950 (S.I. 1950, No. 728), arts. 3 (1), 4 (1), Sch. I, Class XII.

  PLANNING — Town and country planning — Development — Conditions — Validity.

  PRACTICE — Practice and procedure — Declaratory judgment — Town and Country Planning — Development — Declaration — Whether jurisdiction to grant declarations ousted by statute — Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, ss. 14, 15, 17.

  STATUTE — Construction — Jurisdiction of High Court — Not to be taken away save by clear words.

  CROWN PRACTICE — Certiorari — Inferior tribunal — Minister — Town and Country Planning — Development — Validity of conditions — Whether certiorari will lie — Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, s. 14.

  7 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Addiscombe Garden Estates Ltd v Crabbe

  11 Apr 1957 [1957] 2 QB 615; [1957] 2 WLR 964, QBD

  15 Nov 1957 [1958] 1 QB 513; [1957] 3 WLR 980, CA

  Subsequent citations: 14.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Business premises (security of tenure) — “Business”

  LICENCE OR TENANCY — Exclusive occupation Members' club — Exclusive occupation
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Business premises (security of tenure) — “Business” — Members' club — “Any activity carried on by a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate” — Lawn tennis club occupying clubhouse and tennis courts under agreement — Interest of occupiers — Whether tenants or licensees — Club registered under Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893, to carry on business of lawn tennis club — Whether business tenancy Landlord and Tenant Act, 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2, c. 56), Part II, s. 23 (2).

  LICENCE OR TENANCY — Exclusive occupation Members' club — Exclusive occupation — Materiality.

  2 Statutes considered
• Harvey v R G O’Dell Ltd

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 11.
• Nottingham No 1 Area Hospital Management Committee v Owen

  16 Oct 1957 [1958] 1 QB 50; [1957] 3 WLR 707; [1957] 3 All ER 358, DC (Lord Goddard C.J., Donovan and Havers JJ.)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 1.
  PUBLIC HEALTH — Nuisance — Smoke

  CROWN — Statute — Application to.

  NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE — Hospital — Nuisance

  STATUTE — Meaning of “of.”
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  PUBLIC HEALTH — Nuisance — Smoke — Emission of smoke from hospital chimney — Hospital vested in Minister of Health and providing hospital and specialist services under Naional Health Service Act, 1946 — Complaint issued by local authority against hospital management committee — Whether hospital occupied “for public service of the Crown” — Whether management committee amenable to jurisdiction of justices — National Health Service Act, 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6, c. 81) — Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), ss. 103, 106.

  CROWN — Statute — Application to.

  NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE — Hospital — Nuisance — Smoke — Jurisdiction of justices.

  STATUTE — Meaning of “of.”

  2 Statutes considered

• Bathavon Rural District Council v Carlile

  24 Feb 1958 [1958] 1 QB 461, CA

  HOUSING — Rent — Scheme by local authority

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Notice to quit — Form
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  HOUSING — Rent — Scheme by local authority — Review increasing rent — Whether operating ipso facto — Whether local authority entitled to override tenants' contractual rights without notice to quit — Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), s. 85 (6).

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Notice to quit — Form — Time of expiry — Periodic tenancy — Weekly tenancy to Sunday midnight — Notice to quit “by noon on Monday, July 1, 1957.”

  1 Statute considered