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4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
Citation pending | 1958-05-22
Libel a ctions were brought by G and J A in respect of a passage in a newspaper which included the words, “with the help of [J A,] an ex-solicitor, … [G] drew up a petition to the Home Secretary. Into it he put all the...
Citation pending | 1958-05-12
Company – Winding-up – Compulsory winding-up – Concurrent jurisdiction – Transfer of proceedings – Petitions presented by two judgment creditors – One petition in county court and the other in the High Court –...
Citation pending | 1958-04-30
Infant – Removal outside jurisdiction – Custody granted to father by Divorce Court – Infants made wards of court in Chancery Division – Application by father to Divorce Division for leave to take infants out of...
Citation pending | 1958-04-28
Before I read the proviso to s 21 of the Act of 1930, I will say this: The question is whether this notice has been served on the respondent, and it can be served either by serving it on him — that is personal service...
Citation pending | 1958-04-18
PARKER LJ. This is an appeal by the first defendants from a judgment of Lloyd-Jacob J given on 18 July 1957, under which he a warded the plaintiff a sum of £573 1s 9d damages in regard to personal injuries, both...
Citation pending | 1958-04-16
Costs – Disallowing costs of successful plaintiff – Evidence of plaintiff ’ s witness rejected – Evidence of defendant also rejected – Plaintiff a company – Discretion of trial judge – Jurisdiction of Court of Appeal –...
Citation pending | 1958-03-28
DIPLOCK J read the following judgment. In this case, I have to decide, as a preliminary issue, a point of law raised on the pleadings in an action for damages for negligence brought against the a dministrator of the a...
Citation pending | 1958-03-28
Per Curlam: the phrase “bona fide” in s 8 (a) of the Trade Marks Act, 1938, meant the honest use by the person of his own name, without any intention to deceive a nybody or without any intention to make use of the...
It follows | 1958-03-06
Appeal by the shipowners, Adamastos Shipping Co Ltd from an order of the Court of Appeal (Denning, Parker and Sellers LJJ), dated 16 April 1957, and reported sub nom Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd v Adamastos Shipping Co...
Citation pending | 1958-02-24
The plaintiff council a ppealed against an order of His Honour Judge Elder Jones made in Bath County Court on 7 November 1957, dismissing the council ’ s claim for possession of a house, 53, Frederick Avenue, Peasedown...
Citation pending | 1958-02-13
The wife was German by birth and the parties met in Germany while the husband was stationed there. The husband was a widower. They were married on 1 June 1956, and lived together for seven days. The wife sought a...
Citation pending | 1958-01-23
Citation pending | 1957-12-13
reinstatement or to a rrange some third solution a greeable to the parties concerned. This procedure was to be completed before a board ’ s decision to terminate a consultant ’ s services was carried into effect. The...
Citation pending | 1957-11-18
ASHWORTH J read the following judgment. The plaintiffs ’ claim in this case a rises out of a charterparty dated 27 August 1954, made between them as charterers and the defendants as owners of the ss Aello. I was...
Citation pending | 1957-11-15
Landlord and Tenant – Recovery of possession – Business premises – Defence of absence of notice under Landlord and Tenant Act, 1954 – Tennis courts and premises let to a tennis club – Club a registered society under...
Citation pending | 1957-11-07
In libel a ctions brought by G and A in respect of a passage in a newspaper which included the words, “with the help of A … G drew up a petition to the Home Secretary. Into it he put all the dirt he knew”, the evidence...
Citation pending | 1957-11-06
Held – The residuary estate of the intestate was held on the statutory trust for the issue of her uncles and aunts of the whole blood in a ccordance with s 46(1)(v) and s 47(1)(i) and s 47(3) of the Act of 1925 as a...
Citation pending | 1957-10-23
wife ’ s charges, found the husband ’ s charge of cruelty proved, and held that the cruelty had been condoned but revived by the wife ’ s wilfully false a ccusations and granted a decree nisi for divorce. On appeal,
Citation pending | 1957-10-23
A good deal of evidence has been given to suggest that in the watch trade customers are ready to distinguish one name from another, and also that the dealers in watches in this country are so used to different kinds of...
Citation pending | 1957-10-09
At the hearing of the suit the commissioner found the charge of cruelty proved and also found tht the wife had not condoned that cruelty. The husband a ppealed against both findings but during the hearing of the appeal...
Citation pending | 1957-07-30
A testator, by his will dated 12 April 1945, left his residuary estate on trust for his wife during her life and gave the ultimate residue of his estate after her death to such of named cousins of his as might be then...
25 | 1957-07-25
The a ppellants, who were building contractors, were employed to remove a sloping ramp leading to the front door of a house (No 25) and to restore a level path and steps up to the front door. On a day in November they...
2 | 1957-05-10
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 This case involves very simple issues which are of recurring significance in our courts. And a lthough it is a really straightforward case, it raises...
Citation pending | 1957-04-16
(ii) the paramount clause did not except the shipowners from liability because (i) it should be rejected as insensible in relation to this charterparty for, in particular, the reason that the charterparty was a...
Citation pending | 1957-04-11
Landlord and Tenant – Recovery of possession – Business premises – Defence of absence of notice under Landlord and Tenant Act, 1954 – Tennis courts and premises let to a tennis club – Club a registered society under...
Citation pending | 1957-03-15
Quarry owners so conducted their operations that neighbouring householders were discomfited by vibration from explosions and by the dust emanating from the quarry in dry weather, which frequently resulted in a film of...
Citation pending | 1957-02-19
Premises used for the refining of crude oil included a topping unit, which comprised several separate items of a pparatus connected by pipes through which the crude oil passed in the process of distillation and...
Citation pending | 1957-02-13
On 13 June 1956, mortgagees of a dwelling-house issued an originating summons claiming possession of the house, but no other relief. They joined as defendants the mortgagors and D and his wife who were in occupation of...
Citation pending | 1957-02-07
The taxpayers, the executors of Sir Frank Beauchamp, a ppealed against an a dditional a ssessment to the special contribution in the sum of £11,211 made on them in their representative capacities. Sir Frank Beauchamp,...
Citation pending | 1957-02-06
Will – Gift to issue – Adopted child – Child a dopted in British Columbia – Child and a doptive parent domiciled in British Columbia – Testator domiciled in England – Adoption of Children Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo 5 c...
Citation pending | 1957-01-30
Section 15(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1930 has been a mended by s 9(6) of the Road Traffic Act 1956 by deleting the reference to being in charge of a motor vehicle. Section 9 of the Act of 1956 establishes an offence...
Citation pending | 1957-01-29
B having twice been refused planning permission to use land belonging to him as a caravan site for human habitation, nevertheless so used it, continued to use it and was so using it at the time of the hearing of the...
Citation pending | 1957-01-24
Divorce – Foreign decree – Decree granted to wife in Finland on ground of husband ’ s desertion – Husband domiciled in Finland at date of desertion – Subsequent a cquisition by husband of English domicil – Recognition...
Citation pending | 1956-12-21
DEVLIN J read a judgment in which he stated the facts which led up to and resulted in the a ccident which gave rise to the plaintiffs ’ claim, and continued: The plaintiffs rely on three causes of action, trespass,...
Citation pending | 1956-12-20
I am told, and I do not think it is disputed, that in March, 1956, something like fifteen months after the lease had come into existence, the tenant expressed a wish to assign and a sked for leave to do so. The...
Q. | 1956-12-20
The respondent, a girl eighteen years old, was employed by the a ppellants in their factory to operate a power-driven circular saw which was being used for cutting lengths of timber to make chair legs. As she operated...
6 Highgrove Way | 1956-12-19
In Re Percy ((1883), 24 Ch D 616) the testamentary gift was: “I give to my wife … £10,000, a fterwards to go to the understated residuary legatee E.” It is submitted in Jarman on Wills (8th Edn), Vol 1, p 481, that the...
Citation pending | 1956-12-14
By his action the plaintiff, Elliott Archibald Balfour, claimed damages against the defendants in respect of damage done to his premises by a fire which originated on the defendants ’ premises and spread to his...
Citation pending | 1956-11-30
The wife petitioned for divorce on the grounds of the husband ’ s cruelty and of his a dultery with the intervener. The intervener was the wife ’ s sister who at the date of the a lleged a dultery was twelve years of...
Q. | 1956-11-26
The first defendants owned and controlled a large dock estate, part of which was occupied by the second defendants under a lease granted to them by the first defendants in 1927. As access to the second defendants ’...
Citation pending | 1956-11-13
Where it is necessary to prove the original entry in a register of births, and the petitioner cannot without undue expense or inconvenience travel to inspect the register, the Registrars of the Divorce Registry will...
Citation pending | 1956-11-09
LORD GODDARD CJ read the following judgment. The plaintiffs in this action claim damages for breach of contract and in their statement of claim a llege that by an a greement in writing, contained in an offer and tender...
Citation pending | 1956-11-07
At the trial of a libel action in which the defendants pleaded justification the plaintiff called his evidence and did not himself give evidence, but his counsel indicated an intention to call the plaintiff to rebut...
5 being a copy of the international contract bearing the same number. For any divergence which may arise in the fulfilment or construction of the contract contrary to the a foresaid terms | 1956-10-31
On 4 September 1954, the plaintiffs, an Italian company, issued a writ against the defendants, a body which had corporate status by the laws of Spain, claiming damages for breach of a contract for the sale of rye to...
Citation pending | 1956-10-29
This was a Case Stated by the Lands Tribunal (Sir William Fitzgerald, President, C H Bailey, Esq, and Sir Grattan Bushe), under the Lands Tribunal Act, 1949, s 3(4), on the requisition of Associated London Properties...
Citation pending | 1956-07-30
On 11 September 1952, the plaintiff visited the premises of the defendant, a dealer in second-hand cars, and was shown by the defendant ’ s sales manager a 1934 saloon car which the defendant had had for about a week....
Citation pending | 1956-07-26
Res Judicata – Judgment after commencement of action in which plea raised – Action in High Court between drivers of two motor vehicles claiming and counterclaiming damages for negligent driving – Subsequent action in...
Citation pending | 1956-06-28
The a ppellant was the manager of a coal mine. Before going on leave he a ppointed under s 3(2) of the Coal Mines Act, 1911, a duly qualified person to carry out his duties as manager. A few days before his leave began...
Citation pending | 1956-06-25
Held – In so far as the rate proceeded on the basis of the Sch A a ssessment the rate was invalid, since the a nnual value of hereditaments was not determined within s 29(1) of the Land Drainage Act, 1930, until either...
Citation pending | 1956-06-11
During the hearing of the suit counsel for the husband a pplied for leave to read the a ffidavits and the court gave leave and, having considered the evidence, granted the husband a decree nisi. The case is reported...