The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[1964] 2 QB 430
[QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION]
BUILDING & CIVIL ENGINEERING HOLIDAYS SCHEME MANAGEMENT LTD.
v.
POST OFFICE
[1961 B. 417.]
1964 Feb. 24,
25,
28.
Roskill J.
Crown Proceedings
— Post Office
— Statutory liability
— Registered inland postal packet
— Negligent loss of packet
— Privately issued stamps bearing face value
— “Market value”
— Whether face value
—
Grown Proceedings Act, 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6, c. 44), s. 9 (2) (b).
Conversion
— Damages
— Measure of
— Additional liability flowing from conversion
— Whether recoverable.