Direct Effect in UK Law

  • Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
    • House of Lords
    • 22 March 2001
    ... ... The Banking Act of 1979, enacted to give effect in domestic law to the First Council Banking Co-ordination Directive of 12 ... Under the E.E.C. Treaty the Directive of 1977 has direct effect in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom discharged its ... ...
  • R v Secretary of State for Transport, ex parte Factortame Ltd (No 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 October 1990
    ... ... provisions of the Treaty of Rome and other rules of law given effect thereunder by the European Communities Act 1972 by depriving the ... right[s]." as referring to those rights in Community law which have direct effect in the national law of member states of the E.E.C ... The defence of ... ...
  • Bourgoin S.A. v Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 July 1985
    ... ... Act 1980 which replaced it, but the 1980 order continued to have effect by virtue of s.10 of the 1980 Act ... 3 It seems that poultry, and in ... which, as the jurisprudence of the community establishes, has direct effect upon individuals within the Community and therefore confers rights ... ...
  • R v Chief Constable of Sussex, ex parte International Trader's Ferry Ltd (pet. all.)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 November 1998
    ... ... "With effect from Monday, 24 April 1995 I will introduce one of the following two ... Article or Articles which it alleges to have been infringed have direct effect, that is to say, they give rise to rights which are directly ... ...
  • Pickstone v Freemans Plc
    • House of Lords
    • 30 June 1988
    ... ... That was the effect of section 1(1) and (2) of the Act, providing: "1(1) If the ... 565, dealing with the direct effect of article 119: "8. Article 119 pursues a double aim ... ...
  • Test Claimants in the FII Group Litigation v HM Revenue and Customs
    • Supreme Court
    • 23 May 2012
    ... ... to declare the law that applies to the case with retrospective effect, whenever the events that gave rise to the claim occurred. So, in the ... Other claims are for less direct losses which the claimants say they sustained in consequence of the ... ...
  • Parochial Church Council v Wallbank
    • House of Lords
    • 26 June 2003
    ... ... authority, despite the incompatibility, to act so as to 'give effect to' that provision: section 6(2)(b). Here, section 2 of the Chancel ... public law and that the Church and its institutions, which played a direct and active part in public administration, took administrative decisions ... ...
  • Babanaft International Company S.A. v Bassatne
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 June 1988
    ... ... declined to make any order to this effect and adjourned the plaintiffs' appeal. However, in the course of the ... respects, there cannot be any doubt that Mareva injunctions have a direct effect on third parties who are notified of them and who hold assets ... ...
  • Investment Trust Companies v Revenue and Customs Commissioner
    • Supreme Court
    • 11 April 2017
    ... ... by the supplier? Furthermore, if the statutory scheme has the effect of excluding a common law claim by the customer against the Commissioners, ... (6) correctly into national legislation until 1 October 2008, it had direct effect at all material times. It is therefore common ground between the ... ...
  • Attorney General v Leveller Magazine Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 01 February 1979
    ... ... of the cross-examination of "Colonel B" questions were put the effect of which was to elicit from him (1) the official name and number of the ... 40 If the magistrates had power to direct and had directed that 'Colonel B's' name should not be published and such ... ...
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