Results: 457

• Blakeley v C & H Clothing Co (A Firm)

  17 Dec 1957 [1958] 1 WLR 378, Assizes

  FACTORY — Lift — Gates
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  FACTORY — Lift — Gates — Duty to prevent person coming into contact with moving part — Person inserting hand through gates — Injury to hand by movement of lift — Factories Act, 1937 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 67), s. 22 (3).

  1 Statute considered
• Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners’ Royal Benevolent Society, In re

  31 Oct 1958 [1959] Ch 220, Ch D

  31 Oct 1958 [1958] 3 WLR 701, Ch D

  31 Oct 1958 [1959] Ch 220, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 7.
  CHARITY — Investments — Statutory charity
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  CHARITY — Investments — Statutory charity — Powers of investment regulated by special Act of 1850 — Application for wider powers of investment — Whether permissible — Trustee Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 19), s. 57.

  3 Statutes considered

• In Re Tarnpolsk, Decd Barclays Bank Ltd v Hyer

  23 Oct 1958 [1958] 1 WLR 1157, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  WILL — Construction — Uncertainty
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  WILL — Construction — Uncertainty — Condition precedent — Bequests on marriage with “a person of the Jewish race” — Whether void for uncertainty.

  2 Case(s) considered
• Joseph v National Magazine Co Ltd

  09 Jul 1958 [1959] Ch 14, Ch D

  09 Jul 1958 [1958] 3 WLR 366, Ch D

  09 Jul 1958 [1959] Ch 14, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  CONTRACT — Author — Contract to publish article
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  CONTRACT — Author — Contract to publish article — Specific performance — Article to be written and printed under author's name — Stylistic and factual alterations by editor — Refusal by author to allow publication of revised article — Whether repudiation by author — Submission of alterations by author — Whether author entitled to specific performance.

• In The Estate Of Skinner, Decd

  31 Jul 1958 [1958] 1 WLR 1043, PDA

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  EXECUTOR AND ADMINISTRATOR — Trust corporation — Pending dissolution

  COMPANY — Amalgamation — Scheme
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  EXECUTOR AND ADMINISTRATOR — Trust corporation — Pending dissolution — Bank named as executor in will — Probate action commenced by bank — Subsequent amalgamation with another bank — Whether first bank entitled to continue action or act as executor after transfer date.

  COMPANY — Amalgamation — Scheme — Transfer of rights and duties — Continuation by transferor company of duties as executors — Companies Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 38), ss. 206 and 208 — Public Trustee Rules, 1912, as amended (S.R. & O. 1912, No. 348 (L.9), r. 30).

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Racecourse Betting Control Board v Young (Inspector of Taxes)

  06 Dec 1957 [1958] 1 WLR 122; [1958] 1 All ER 274; 38 TC 426, Ch D (Upjohn J)

  07 May 1958 [1958] 1 WLR 705; [1958] 2 All ER 385; 38 TC 426, CA (Lord Evershed M.R., Morris and Ormerod L.JJ.)

  29 Jul 1959 [1959] 1 WLR 813; [1959] 3 All ER 215; 38 TC 426; 38 ATC 242, HL (Viscount Simonds, Lord Reid, Lord Radcliffe, Lord Tucker and Lord Keith Of Avonholm)

  REVENUE — Income tax — Expenses
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  REVENUE — Income tax — Expenses — Racecourse Betting Control Board — Operation of totalisator on racecourses — Totalisator fund — Expenditure prescribed by statute for benefit of owners of racecourses and racehorses — Board carrying on trade — Whether deductible expenses — “Working expenses” — Meaning — Racecourse Betting Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 41), s. 3 — Betting and Lotteries Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 58), s. 18 (5) — Income Tax Act, 1952 (15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2, c. 10), s. 137 (a) (f) (g).

  5 Case(s) considered

  3 Statutes considered

• R v Adair

  23 Jun 1958 [1958] 1 WLR 786, CCA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CRIME — Criminal law — Summing up

  CRIME — Criminal law — Court of Criminal Appeal

  CRIME — Criminal law — Larceny
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  CRIME — Criminal law — Summing up — Direction to jury after retirement — Question from jury — Whether relevant evidence should be reviewed.

  CRIME — Criminal law — Court of Criminal Appeal — Substitution of verdict — Alternative counts — Conviction on larceny count — No verdict on receiving count — Court's power to substitute verdict of receiving — Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 23), s. 5 (2).

  CRIME — Criminal law — Larceny — Alternative counts for larceny or receiving — Conviction on one and no verdict on other — Appeal — Substitution of verdict — Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, s. 5 (2).

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• Working Men’s Club And Institute Union Ltd v Swansea Corpn

  17 Oct 1958 [1958] 1 WLR 1135, QBD

  11 Nov 1959 [1959] 1 WLR 1197, CA

  RATING — Rates and rating — “Social welfare”

  JUSTICES — Case stated — Quarter sessions

  FACT OR LAW — Rating relief — Main object of body
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  RATING — Rates and rating — “Social welfare” — Working men's clubs union — Convalescent home — Union formed to encourage working men to form clubs — Main objects of union — Whether established or conducted for profit — Whether concerned with the advancement of social welfare — Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2, c. 9), s. 8 (1) (a).

  JUSTICES — Case stated — Quarter sessions — Fact found — No error in approach — Whether binding on higher court — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 25.

  FACT OR LAW — Rating relief — Main object of body — Written constitution inconclusive — Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955, s. 8 (1) (a).

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• In Re Cole; Westminster Bank Ltd v Moore

  17 Jul 1958 [1958] 3 WLR 447, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 1.
  CHARITY — Children — Deprived of parents

  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — Payment of debts — Property liable
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  CHARITY — Children — Deprived of parents — Devise — Income to be applied “for the general benefit and general welfare” of children in local authority's home — Whether valid charitable trust created — Charitable Uses Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. 1, c. 4), preamble — Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), ss. 35, 44, 57, 61, 76 — Children Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 43), ss. 1, 12, 15.

  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — Payment of debts — Property liable — Mortgaged property — Part specifically devised and part falling into residue — Whether liability apportionable — Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 23), s. 35.

  1 Statute considered

• Fry v Inland Revenue Commissioners

  12 Mar 1958 [1958] 2 WLR 673, Ch D

  17 Jul 1958 [1959] Ch 86; [1958] 3 WLR 381, CA

  Subsequent citations: 11.
  REVENUE — Estate duty — Interest in expectancy

  STATUTE — Construction — Argument ab inconvenienti
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  REVENUE — Estate duty — Interest in expectancy — Deferred payment of duty — Purchase by life tenant of interest in expectancy — Falling into possession — Whether estate duty payable on the purchase price or at the death of life tenant or not at all — Finance Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 30), s. 7 (6).

  STATUTE — Construction — Argument ab inconvenienti — Relevance of results of alternative possible constructions — Equitable construction preferred — Estate duty statute.

  1 Statute considered