Change of Control in UK Law

  • R v Smith (Morgan James)
    • House of Lords
    • 27 July 2000
    ... ... done or by things said or by both together) to lose his self-control, the question whether the provocation was enough to make a reasonable man ... that section 3 of the Homicide Act 1957 was intended to and did change the position at common law; it also defined the defence of diminished ... ...
  • Beaulane Properties Ltd v Palmer
    • Chancery Division
    • 23 March 2005
    ... ... I think it is better that I retain control of these issues until the ECHR has given its decision ... on the issues in this case: (a) There was a radical change in the law in 1833. Before then, lapse of time barred the owner's ... ...
  • Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service
    • House of Lords
    • 22 November 1984
    ... ... of the most important prerogative powers which are concerned with control of the armed forces and with foreign policy and with other matters which ... giving the instruction on 22 December 1983 for making an important change in their conditions of service. His main reason for so submitting was that ... ...
  • R (Alconbury Developments Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
    • House of Lords
    • 09 May 2001
    ... ... 6(1), or they do not so comply but are subject to subsequent control by a judicial body which has full jurisdiction and does provide the ... served an enforcement notice on ISKCON alleging a material change of use of the land. ISKCON appealed against the notice under section ... ...
  • Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Deverell and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 1999
    ... ... Counsel for the Secretary of State explained why there had been the change of approach and that he would not seek to rely on any other evidence or ... essential to the corporate governance of a company including control of its financial affairs. They also accepted that the label attached to ... ...
  • White and Others v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 03 December 1998
    ... ... lost their cases because they did not fulfil one or other of the control mechanisms, all of which the present law requires in cases where damages ... 410 , one of those cases in which one feels that a slight change in the composition of the Appellate Committee would have set the law on a ... ...
  • Armstrong DLW GmbH v Winnington Networks Ltd
    • Chancery Division
    • 11 January 2012
    ... ... of the EUAs without notice and also relied upon the defence of change of position. In its defence, Winnington also brought a Part 20 ... 2010, the third party fraudster gained de facto ministerial control over the EUAs lying in Armstrong's account. At that point the EUAs were ... ...
  • R (Miller and Another) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union; Re McCord's application
    • Supreme Court
    • 24 January 2017
    ... ... to exercise any power they might otherwise have if it results in a change in UK domestic law, unless statute, ie an Act of Parliament, so provides ... or liberty of subjects has been placed under Parliamentary control, and directly regulated by statute, the Executive no longer derives its ... ...
  • Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung v Rayner & Keeler Ltd and Others (Original Appeal) and Rayner & Keeler Ltd and Others v Courts and Others (Cross Appeal)
    • House of Lords
    • 18 May 1966
    ... ... of March 1948 they did exercise such join authority through the Control Council for Germany. Apart from the States, Governments and Control ... The Appellants would clearly be entitled to show that a change of circumstances had occurred to affect their capacity to sue. If this is ... ...
  • Liversidge v Anderson
    • House of Lords
    • 03 November 1941
    ... ... such acts and that by reason thereof it is necessary to exercise control over him, he may make an order against that person directing that he be ... is that even in Statutes, changes of words often occur without a change of meaning. The third observation is that the words "has reasonable cause ... ...
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