Attorney General for New South Wales v Perpetual Trustee Company (Ltd)

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1955
Date1955
CourtPrivy Council
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97 cases
  • Yarl's Wood Immigration Ltd and Others v Bedfordshire Police Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 30 September 2008
    ...officers hold office under the Crown but are not servants of the Crown: Attorney-General of New South Wales v Perpetual Trustee Co LtdELR[1955] AC 457, 480. This follows from the status of the office of constable at common law, which remains relevant today despite the many statutory provisi......
  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Hambrook
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 30 July 1956
    ...was emphasised by the Privy Council in the recent case of ( Attorney-General for New South Wales v. The Perpetual Trustee Company 1955 Appeal Cases, page 457). The question for us is whether the present claim is an extension or not. To answer this, it is necessary to inquire the bounds of ......
  • Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District v Croydon Corporation ; Monmouthshire County Council v Smith
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 4 December 1956
    ...was an action given to a master because he was deprived of the service of his servant. 13 Since the case of the Attorney-General for New South Wales v. Perpetual Trustees, (1955 Appeal Cases, page 457) it has been held by the Judicial Committee that in the case of a police officer, that act......
  • Coleman and MacDonald v Smith
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 24 September 1979
    ...matter now stands the employer can not sue to recover those lost wages: Attorney General for New South Wales v. Perpetual Trustee Co. [1955] A.C. 457: [1955] 1 All E.R. 846 (P.C) and I.R.C. v. Hambrook [1956] 1 All E.R. 578 (C.A) overruling Attorney General v. Valle Jones [1935] 2 K.B. 209;......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Keeping control of terrorists without losing control of constitutionalism.
    • United States
    • Stanford Law Review Vol. 59 No. 5, March 2007
    • 1 March 2007
    ...of the doctrine, see Fisher v. Oldham Corp., [1930] 2 K.B. 364; Attorney-General for New South Wales v. Perpetual Trustee Co., [1955] A.C. 457; R v. Police Commissioner of the Metropolis, [1968] 2 Q.B. 118; R. v. Oxford, (1987) 151 L.G. Rev. 371 (C.A. Civ); R v. Chief Constable of Sussex, [......
  • Relational economic loss (or interference with contractual relations): The last hurdle
    • South Africa
    • Acta Juridica No. , August 2019
    • 29 May 2019
    ...cited. 19 Best v Samuel Fox & Co [1952] Ac 716, [1952] 2 All ER 394 (HL); Attorney-General for New South Wales v Perpetual Trustee Co [1955] AC 457 (PC); Bernstein (n 4) 145ff. 20 Fatal Accidents Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict) c93; Feldthusen (n 1) 251. 21 Feldthusen (n 1) 252ff. 22 Morrison Steams......
  • The Relationship between Police Boards and Chiefs of Police in Canada
    • United Kingdom
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 74-2, April 2001
    • 1 April 2001
    ...no one but the law.This decision was also supported by Viscount Simonds in AttorneyGeneral for New South Wales vPerpetual Trustee Co (LD) [1955] AC457 at 489. Viscount Simonds stated:There is afundamental difference between the domestic relations ofa servant and master and that of the holde......

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