The Weekly Law Reports
[1955] 2 WLR 723
[PRIVY COUNCIL.]
PORT OF SPAIN CORPORATION APPELLANTS; AND GORDON, GRANT & CO. LD. RESPONDENTS. ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO.
1955 Mar. 14.
LORD TUCKER, LORD COHEN, LORD SOMERVELL OF HARROW and MR. L. M. D. DE SILVA.
Trinidad and Tobago
— Rates and rating
— Assessment
— Rateable value
— Rent restriction legislation
— Application
— “Standard rent” the value for purpose of rate
— English principle inapplicable
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Port of Spain Corporation Ordinance (Revised Ordinances of Trinidad and Tobago, 1950, c. 39, No. 1), ss. 89, 101, 114
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Rent Restriction Ordinance (Revised Ordinances, 1950, c. 27, No. 18), ss. 3 (1), 8, 9.
Rates and Rating.
Privy Council
— Appeal
— Leave to appeal
— Jurisdiction of colonial court
— Trinidad and Tobago
— Decision of Supreme Court on appeal from court of summary jurisdiction
— Jurisdiction to grant leave to appeal to Privy Council
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Order in Council, April 2, 1909, r. 2.