Fit and Proper in UK Law

  • Paponette and Others v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
    • Privy Council
    • 13 December 2010
    ... ... to apply to the PTSC (or any state agency or public corporation) for a permit and who are required to satisfy the PTSC that they are fit and proper persons to use the taxi stand. The statutory framework ... 8 The Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago ... ...
  • M'Alister or Donoghue (Pauper) v Stevenson
    • House of Lords
    • 26 May 1932
    ... ... For this reason it is very necessary in considering reported cases in the law of torts that the actual decisionaAlone should carry authority proper weight of course being given to the dicta of the judges ... 48 In my opinion several decided cases support the view that in such a case as the ... ...
  • Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
    • House of Lords
    • 22 March 2001
    ... ... the Court of Appeal referred to "the facts alleged or capable of being alleged", that being a reference to the circumstances in which it is proper to strike out an action ... 52 Given this untidy procedural position, it may be necessary when the parties are ready for an ... ...
  • Runa Begum v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 13 February 2003
    ... ... 18 The original grounds of appeal raised the normal judicial review grounds: the council acted irrationally, it failed to make proper inquiries, did not have regard to material factors and so on. But on 14 December 2001 the Court of Appeal gave judgment in Adan v Newham London ... ...
  • Read v J. Lyons & Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 18 October 1946
    ... ... to bring into a garage and that the use of one's land for the purpose of erecting a garage and keeping a motor car there is not an ordinary or proper use of the land ... 33 My Lords, if these questions ever come directly before this House it may become necessary to lay down ... ...
  • McFarlane v Tayside Health Board
    • House of Lords
    • 25 November 1999
    ... ... standards of the medical profession (coupled with insurance) should be a sufficient protection in such cases, which ought to be rare if proper care is taken ... 44 The real question raised here is more fundamental. It is to be remembered on this part of the case that ... ...
  • Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police
    • Supreme Court
    • 08 February 2018
    ... ... , and this demands that the dispute be resolved in a way which is fair and reasonable and accords with ordinary notions of what is fit and proper” ... 28 In the present case, Hallett LJ cited the decision of this court in Smith v Ministry of Defence (JUSTICE intervening) [2013] ... ...
  • Wilsons and Clyde Coal Company v English
    • House of Lords
    • 19 July 1937
    ... ... master retains control, he has a duty to see that his servants do not suffer through his personal negligence, such as (1) failure to provide proper and suitable plant, if he knows, or ought to have known, of such failure, ( 2 ) failure to select fit and competent servants, (3) failure to provide ... ...
  • Roberts v Hopwood
    • House of Lords
    • 03 April 1925
    ... ... To determine the proper or true amount which in a given state of facts has been paid or is payable for services rendered is far from easy. It can never be determined with ... ...
  • Boulting v Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians
    • Court of Appeal
    • 04 February 1963
    ... ... , it is clear that the person entitled to the benefit of this positive rule is the person who is protected by it but he, and he alone, can in proper circumstances relax it to such extent as he thinks proper. It cannot be Used as a shield by the person owing the duty; that is clear; it is a sword ... ...
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