Results: 29

• Canadian Pacific Railway Co v Attorney-General for British Columbia (Attorney-General for Canada Intervening)

  21 Nov 1949 [1950] AC 122, PC

  EMPLOYMENT — Canada — British Columbia
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  EMPLOYMENT — Canada — British Columbia — Hours of work legislation — Hotel owned by railway company — Whether part of railway works and undertaking — Applicability of hours of work Act to hotel employees — British North America Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 3), s. 91; s. 92, head 10 (a) (c), 13 — Hours of Work Act, R. S. B. C. 1936, c. 122 (as amended by c. 34 of 1946).

  2 Statutes considered

• Jacobs v London County Council

  21 Mar 1950 [1950] AC 361, HL

  Subsequent citations: 43.
  NEGLIGENCE — Personal injuries — Forecourt between public pavement and shop
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  NEGLIGENCE — Personal injuries — Forecourt between public pavement and shop — Local authority owners and occupiers of forecourt — Defective and projecting stopcock — Injury to person crossing from pavement to shop — Invitee or licensee — Nuisance adjoining highway.
• Barkway v South Wales Transport Co Ltd

  09 Jul 1948 [1949] 1 KB 54; [1948] 2 All ER 460; 64 TLR 462; (1948) 92 SJ 528, CA (Scott, Asquith and Bucknill LJJ)

  09 Feb 1950 [1950] AC 185; [1950] 1 All ER 392; [1950] WN 95, HL (Lord Porter, Lord Normand, Lord Morton of Henryton, Lord Reid and Lord Radcliffe)

  Subsequent considerations : 5 positive; 4 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2005. Subsequent citations: 11.
  EVIDENCE — Two actions for negligence against company in respect of same accident — Witness in first action dies
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  EVIDENCE — Two actions for negligence against company in respect of same accident — Witness in first action dies — Transcript of his evidence in first action not admissible in second action — “Person interested” — Employee of defendant company — Part of transcript put to a witness in cross-examination — Whether whole must be read — Evidence Act, 1938 (1 & 2 Geo. 6, c. 28), s. 1, sub-ss. 1 (i.) (b), 3 and 4.

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• Attorney-General For British Columbia v Esquimalt And Nanaimo Railway Co

  02 Nov 1949 [1950] AC 87, PC

  RAILWAY — Canada — British Columbia
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  RAILWAY — Canada — British Columbia — Railway — Construction scheme — Grant of lands — Tax exemption under provincial statute — No contractual relationship between province and railway contractors or railway company — Proposed taxation — Direct lard tax — Within provincial legislative competence — Forest protection impost — A “tax” within the exemption provision — Island Railway, Graving Dock and Railway Lands Act, St. B. C., 1884, c. 14, ss. 8, 22 — Forest Act, R. S. B. C. 1936, c. 102, s. 124.

  1 Statute considered

• Frankman v Prague Credit Bank (Zivnostenska Banka National Corp v Frankman)

  02 Feb 1948 [1948] 1 KB 730; [1948] 1 All ER 337, KBD (Cassels J)

  04 Nov 1948 [1949] 1 KB 199; [1948] 2 All ER 1025; (1948) 92 SJ 705, CA (Lord Goddard LCJ, Asquith, Singleton LJJ)

  20 Oct 1949 [1950] AC 57; [1949] 2 All ER 671, HL (Lord Simonds, Lord Normand, Lord MacDermott, Lord Reid, Lord Radcliffe)

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  INTERNATIONAL LAW — Private international law — Deposit by Prague bank at its London office of Czechoslovakian bonds on behalf of Czech national

  BANKING — Private international law — Contract
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  INTERNATIONAL LAW — Private international law — Deposit by Prague bank at its London office of Czechoslovakian bonds on behalf of Czech national — Devolution of title to bonds on naturalized British subject — Refusal to deliver bonds in England to present owner — Delivery prohibited by Czechoslovakian law — Lex loci contractus — Lex loci solutionis — Bretton Woods Agreements Acts, 1945 (9 & 10 Geo. 6, c. 19), preamble, s. 3 — St. R. & O. 1946, No. 36, para. 3, sch., part 1.

  INTERNATIONAL LAW — Private international law — Deposit by Prague bank at its London office of Czechoslovakian bonds on behalf of Czech national — Devolution of title to bonds on naturalized British subject — Refusal by bank to deliver bonds in England to present owner — Conditions of business of bank — Construction of — System of law applicable — Lex loci contractus — Lex loci solutionis.

  BANKING — Private international law — Contract — Deposit of bonds — English office of foreign bank — Foreign bonds deposited by head office on behalf of foreign national — Devolution of title on naturalized British subject resident in England — Claim for delivery of bonds in England to owner — Refusal by bank — Bank's conditions of business — Construction — System of law applicable — Lex loci contractus — Lex loci solutionis.

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• H E Wijesuriya v Attorney-General For Ceylon

  26 Apr 1950 [1950] AC 493, PC

  CONTRACT — Ceylon — Contract
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  CONTRACT — Ceylon — Contract — Crown lands — Oral agreement giving right to produce of rubber trees — Whether “permit” a lease or a licence — “Exclusive possession” the decisive test — Non-compliance with statutory provision requiring agreement to be in writing — Validity — Prevention of Frauds Ordinance (R.S., c. 57), ss. 2, 17.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Akisatan Apena of Iporo v Akinwande Thomas

  20 Feb 1950 [1950] AC 227, PC

  JURISDICTION — West africa — Nigeria
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  JURISDICTION — West africa — Nigeria — Supreme Court — Native Courts — Jurisdiction — Supreme Court Ordinance, No. 23 of 1943, s. 12.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Inland Revenue Commissioners v John Dow Stuart Ltd

  14 Dec 1949 [1950] AC 149, HL

  REVENUE — Income tax — Excess profits tax
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  REVENUE — Income tax — Excess profits tax — Deficiencies following excesses — Excess profits tax assessed but not paid before deficiencies occur — Proper deductions for income-tax purposes — Finance (No. 2) Act, 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6, c. 109), ss. 15, 18.

  1 Statute considered
• Asher v Seaford Court Estates Ltd

  27 Apr 1950 [1950] AC 508, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Standard Rent
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Standard Rent — Letting at higher rent — Burdens undertaken by landlords on grant of the new lease — “Transfer of burden” — Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 2, sub-s. 3.

  1 Statute considered
• Boissevain v Weil

  13 Dec 1948 [1949] 1 KB 482; [1949] 1 All ER 146; 65 TLR 197; (1949) 93 SJ 133, CA (Tucker, Asquith and Denning LJJ)

  21 Mar 1950 [1950] AC 327; [1950] 1 All ER 728, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; most recently considered: 1998. Subsequent citations: 1.
  CURRENCY — Loan of foreign currency — Promise to repay in sterling after the war

  WAR — Emergency Legislation — Currency control
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  CURRENCY — Loan of foreign currency — Promise to repay in sterling after the war — Parties involuntarily resident in foreign country in military occupation of enemy — Repudiation of transaction by borrower — Illegality of loan — Defence (Finance) Regulations, 1939 (St. R. & O. 1939, No. 1620), reg. 2 (1.), as amended by Order of 1940, No. 1484 — Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6, c. 62), s. 3, sub-s. 1 (b).

  WAR — Emergency Legislation — Currency control — Loan of foreign currency during war — Promise to repay in sterling after war — Parties involuntarily resident in foreign country in military occupation of enemy — Repudiation of transaction by borrower — Illegality of loan — Defence (Finance) Regulations, 1939 (St. R. & O. 1939, No. 1620), reg. 2, as amended by St. R. & O. 1940, No. 1484.

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered