Results: 469

• Cia Naviera Azuero SA v British Oil & Cake Mills Ltd

  08 Apr 1957 [1957] 2 WLR 997, QBD

  08 Apr 1957 [1957] 2 QB 293, QBD

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral.
  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Demurrage
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  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Demurrage — “Weather working days” — Meaning — Rain during period when no work being done or contemplated — “Laydays in loading and discharging to be calculated on the basis of 24 hours per day.”
• Manning v Turner

  09 Jul 1956 [1957] 1 WLR 91, Ch D (Sir Leonard Stone V.C. sitting in the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 1.
  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Defective title — Right to rescind contract
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  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Defective title — Right to rescind contract — Vendors' title dependent on deed of gift within five years by living donor — Contingent liability to estate duty — Vendors' duty to secure at their expense a policy of insurance providing indemnity — Vendors' failure to fulfil duty within reasonable time — Purchaser's right to rescind.

  2 Case(s) considered

• Davies v Davies (No 2)

  03 May 1957 [1957] P 357; [1957] 3 WLR 34, DC

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Refusal to adjudicate
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Refusal to adjudicate — Appeal — Jurisdiction of High Court — Wife's complaint of persistent cruelty, desertion for less than three years and wilful neglect to maintain — Refusal to adjudicate on ground that all matters more conveniently dealt with in High Court — Power of justices to divide matters and refer in part to High Court — Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895 (58 & 59 Vict. c. 39), ss. 10 and 11.

  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
• R v Beynon

  (1972) 57 Cr App R 259, CA

  03 Apr 1957 [1957] 2 WLR 956, Assizes

  03 Apr 1957 [1957] 2 QB 111, Assizes

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative.
  CRIME — Criminal law — Plea

  CRIME — Costs — Appeal against sentence only
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  CRIME — Criminal law — Plea — Fitness to plead — Whether the defence can require the general issue to be tried before the issue of fitness to plead.

  CRIME — Costs — Appeal against sentence only — Whether power to award costs to successful appellant — Criminal Appeal Act 1968, s 24 (1)
• Billings (A C) & Sons Ltd v Riden

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 9.
• Adler v Upper Grosvenor Street Investment Ltd

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
• West Riding County Council v Huddersfield Corpn

  06 Feb 1957 [1957] 2 WLR 428, QBD

  06 Feb 1957 [1957] 1 QB 540, QBD

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 7.
  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Local authority — Money claims made following alteration of boundaries
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  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Local authority — Money claims made following alteration of boundaries — Arbitration 16 years after orders of Minister — Whether claims within provisions of Limitation Act and statute barred — Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 151 — Limitation Act, 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6, c. 21), ss. 2 (1) (d), 27.

  2 Statutes considered
• Griffith v Pelton

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 12.
• Hayman v Rowlands

  20 Dec 1956 [1957] 1 WLR 317, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 4.
  COURT OF APPEAL — County Court — Appeal from

  COUNTY COURT — Practice — Judgment given in defendant's absence

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Possession application
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  COURT OF APPEAL — County Court — Appeal from — Judge's note incomplete — Whether court can receive affidavit from solicitor concerned — R.S.C., Ord. 58, r. 18 (5).

  COUNTY COURT — Practice — Judgment given in defendant's absence — Defendant mistaken as to date of hearing — New trial refused — Discretion wrongly exercised — County Court Rules, 1936, Ord. 37, r. 2.

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Possession application — Arrears of rent — Usual order — Suspended order.

  1 Case considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered