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Citation pending | 1962-04-18
The defendants were Robert Durham Clifton, who held shares in the plaintiff society issued under the title of “five per cent fixed term shares”, the Hon Montague Robert Vere Eliot, who held shares in the plaintiff...
Citation pending | 1962-04-17
Criminal Law – Appeal – House of Lords – Jurisdiction on a pplication for habeas corpus or discharge under Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, s 10 – Appeal limited to relief under s 10 – Leave to appeal granted by House of...
Citation pending | 1962-04-09
In this case the husband petitioned for divorce on the ground of the wife ’ s a dultery with the co-respondent. The wife by her answer denied the a lleged a dultery and cross-prayed for a divorce on the ground of the...
Citation pending | 1962-03-05
This was an appeal against an order of Mr Registrar Kinsley whereby he dismissed a summons by the husband a pplying for leave (i) to a mend his, the husband ’ s, petition by striking out the a llegation of cruelty and...
Citation pending | 1962-02-22
An urban district council, as a local authority for the purposes of the Housing Act, 1957, and enactments preceding it, erected houses and flats in its are a, the rents of which were payable weekly. The council made a...
Citation pending | 1962-02-09
In divorce proceedings in which the husband petitioned on the ground of a dultery and the wife cross-petitioned on the grounds of a dultery and cruelty, each party filed a discretion statement a dmitting a dultery. The...
[1964] GLR 134 | 1961-12-22
Apaloo J. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Sekondi, delivered on 22 December 1961. In that suit, the court entered judgment for the plaintiff -respondent firm...
Citation pending | 1961-12-21
Restrictive Trade Practices – Court – Contempt of court – Proceedings no longer pending – Witness against federation subsequently removed from office – Whether removal constituted a contempt of court.
Citation pending | 1961-12-19
It is settled law that, in the case of criminal contempt, the period of imprisonment should be for a fixed term as for punishment for a criminal offence; when that has been directed, the court is functus officio, and...
Citation pending | 1961-12-06
This was an appeal by the wife with leave of the judge from an order of Marshall J made on 19 April 1961, dismissing her appeal from an order of the registrar of Plymouth District Registry, made on 17 March 1961,...
Citation pending | 1961-11-22
A complete patent specification described an invention of a crimping tool for crimping electrical connectors on to electrical conductors so as to form a secure electrical connexion. The objects of the invention a...
Citation pending | 1961-11-06
Held – An order for custody would be made in L ’ s favour since the court had jurisdiction to make an order for custody in the suit notwithstanding the wife ’ s death, and it was in the interests of the child that the...
Citation pending | 1961-10-03
Appeal by the Attorney General of Ceylon from a decree of the Supreme Court of the Island of Ceylon (Basnayake CJ and Pulle J), dated 28 October 1958, a llowing an appeal by the respondent, the Scindia Steam Navigation...
2 | 1961-07-28
On appeal from a decision on an a pplication for a carrier ’ s goods vehicle licence the a ppellate tribunal is not confined to the objection preferred by an objector, but may review the exercise of the discretion of...
Citation pending | 1961-07-20
Criminal Law – Appeal – House of Lords – Jurisdiction – Whether appeal limited to point of law certified by court below – Administration of Justice Act, 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz 2 c 65), s 1(2).
Citation pending | 1961-07-16
Privy Council – West Indies – Trinidad – Trade union – Domestic tribunal – Natural justice – Member charged with breach of union ’ s rules none of which gave power of expulsion – Expulsion at a djourned hearing at...
Citation pending | 1961-07-12
This was an appeal by Raymond Clifford James Allen, the plaintiff, from a judgment of His Honour Judge Armstrong at Poole County Court given on 9 November 1960, dismissing the plaintiff ’ s claim against Nellie May...
Citation pending | 1961-06-02
In Baker v Baker a wife a ppealed against an order of Bromely magistrates made on 11 January 1961, dismissing her complaints of persistent cruelty and constructive desertion. A note of the magistrates ’ reasons for...
Citation pending | 1961-05-19
(b) the court should have regard to the actual moment of the testator ’ s death, and should not treat it as having occurred at the last moment of 25 December 1954, so that the rights of action to recover the rents had...
Citation pending | 1961-05-10
By an instrument of charge dated 2 December 1948, L charged certain property with payment to a bank of all moneys from time to time owing by him to the bank as principal or surety. The instrument of charge provided...
Citation pending | 1961-05-09
In 1947 the taxpayer company a cquired all the issued capital of a company, which thus became its subsidiary company, in order to enable the taxpayer company to exercise an option of the subsidiary company to purchase...
CA/A.2623 is enclosed. Working drawings will be forwarded to you in due course. The contract documents will be sent by the clerk of the county council within the next few days. I am inserting in the contract a provisional starting date of Mar. 25 | 1961-05-03
In this action the plaintiffs, A Roberts & Co Ltd and A Roberts & Co (Holdings) Ltd claimed against the defendants, Leicestershire County Council, rectification of a contract under seal dated 12 April 1954, and made...
Citation pending | 1961-05-03
Privy Council – Gambia – Counsel – Professional misconduct – Striking name off roll of court by judge – Whether exercise of judicial power – Supreme Court Ordinance (Laws of the Gambia, 1955, c 5), s 7.
Citation pending | 1961-04-14
The plaintiff a ppealed against an order of His Honour Judge Leslie made in Woolwich County Court on 31 October 1960, dismissing an action for damages for breach of covenant in a sub-lease to the plaintiff of a lock-up...
Citation pending | 1961-03-27
On 5 March 1958, a dditional bail to cover these wreck-raising expenses was provided in the original action on certain undertakings. The hearing of the original action took place before Willmer J on 15 April 16 and 17,...
Citation pending | 1961-03-20
Divorce – Decree absolute – Arrangements for care and upbringing of children – Decree nisi made absolute before court satisfied as to a rrangements – Decree void – Matrimonial Proceedings (Children) Act, 1958 (6 & 7...
Citation pending | 1961-02-10
In August, 1944, the former wife obtained a decree absolute and in November, 1944, she obtained an order for maintenance in her favour. On 2 April 1959, the former husband died leaving estate to the value of a...
Citation pending | 1961-02-06
(ii) as a matter of equity, the a ppellant could not maintain a claim for specific performance of cl 9(c) since it was at the time in breach of its own obligations and since it could not show that it was willing and...
Citation pending | 1961-02-03
Landlord and Tenant – Notice to quit – Business premises – Notice stating landlord would not oppose a pplication to court for new tenancy provided rent and performance of covenants guaranteed by person a pproved by...
Citation pending | 1961-01-18
In the Court of Appeal the plaintiff took the point (which was mentioned, but not pressed, before Jones J) that the exception clause in the schedule to the a greement a pplied only to the contract between the parties...
2 | 1961-01-11
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 of the appeal. If he had not, he ought not to be a llowed to intermeddle with it. R v Rowe [1955] 1 “In this appeal from a judgment of the High Court,...
[1960] GLR 256 | 1960-12-23
Korsah, C.J. delivered the judgment of the court: This is an appeal from the judgment of the Land Court of the Ashanti Judicial Division in exercise of its a ppellate jurisdiction, a llowing an appeal from the judgment...
[1960] GLR 249 | 1960-12-20
(His lordship referred to the evidence and continued). [p.250] From the foregoing summary of the evidence of the parties, it will be noted that the plaintiff's complaint against the defendant was that in the first...
Citation pending | 1960-12-15
If a contract is expressly or by necessary implication forbidden by statute, or if it is ex facie illegal, or if both parties know that though ex facie legal it can only be performed by illegality or is intended to be...
Citation pending | 1960-12-14
Nullity – Foreign decree – Domicil of parties in Italy – Residence in Switzerland – Swiss decree of nullity on ground of husband ’ s impotence recognised by Italian courts – Recognition by English court.
Citation pending | 1960-12-09
Per Devlin LJ: no witness ought to be held to be “a person interested” on a ground which would not be taken into consideration as a ffecting the weight of his evidence if he were a ctually called in court (see p 393,...
Citation pending | 1960-12-06
By an a ward made in 1803 commissioners, a ppointed under an Inclosure Act of 1800 relating to the parish of Holywell in the county of Huntingdon, ordered that certain drains in the parish should thereafter be...
[1960] GLR 231 | 1960-11-29
The following is an extract from the judgment of Ollennu, J. Upon the evidence in this case I have come to the following general conclusions of fact as to custom: — (a) All lands in the Osu Division of the Ga State are...
[1960] GLR 227 | 1960-11-28
Van Lare J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. (His lordship reviewed the findings of fact made by the trial judge and continued): On the evidence as a whole the a ppellant does not a ppear to have any answer to...
Citation pending | 1960-11-18
A professional football player was injured while playing football and sustained a disability which was believed to amount to permanent total disablement within the terms of a policy insuring him against a ccident....
Citation pending | 1960-11-17
An engrossed counterpart of a proposed new lease, to be granted in pursuance of the tenant ’ s exercise of an option, was sent to the tenant ’ s solicitors. The landlords, who were a company, executed the new lease...
[1960] GLR 213 | 1960-11-07
(His lordship referred to the facts and continued). It was in the foregoing circumstances that on the appeal coming up for a rgument before me on 21st October, 1960, I a ddressed Dr. Danquah as follows: — "It a ppears...
Citation pending | 1960-11-04
The ships of the taxpayer company and its subsidiary company, which owned two coal-fired tramp ships, were managed by a third company; all three companies had the same chairman. The ships were all on charter to another...
Citation pending | 1960-07-25
A private limited company had a nominal share capital of ten thousand £1 preference shares and fifty thousand £1 ordinary shares, all the preference shares and 36,002 of the ordinary shares being issued and being held...
Citation pending | 1960-07-21
Owing to the difficulty of getting men of good calibre to serve a broad, particularly in view of the problem of educating children during parents ’ absence from this country, a company instituted a scheme to provide...
Citation pending | 1960-07-21
Statute – Retrospective operation – Pending proceedings – Alteration of law after judgment and before appeal – Duty of Court of Appeal – Vested substantive right not to be interfered with – Distinction for matters of...
Citation pending | 1960-07-20
preliminary issue. The pleadings, and the relevant terms of the plaintiff company ’ s memorandum of a ssociation, are referred to in the course of the judgment of Salmon J on the issue, post.
Citation pending | 1960-07-18
The Manchester Police Regulation Act, 1844, s 102a, created certain street offences and prescribed a penalty of not more than forty shillings for any offence committed contrary to the section. The defendants, a husband...
[1960] GLR 191 | 1960-06-22
Korsah, C.J. delivered the judgment of the court. (After stating the facts his lordship continued): It is necessary to say, firstly, that when jury presented a unanimous verdict that the a ccused was guilty of murder...
[1960] GLR 193 | 1960-06-22
Granville Sharp, J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. (His lordship referred to the evidence and continued). The finding that in the a ppellant’s evidence he no doubt lied does not conclude the matter against him....