Attorney General of the Gambia v N'Jie

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1961
Date1961
CourtPrivy Council
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144 cases
  • R v Immigration Bd, ex p Kirk Freeport Plaza Ltd
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 25 October 1996
    ...[1969] 1 All E.R. 208. (2) -Att.-Gen. v. Ryan, [1980] A.C. 718; (1979), 123 Sol. Jo. 621, followed. (3) -Att.-Gen. (Gambia) v. N”Jie, [1961] A.C. 617; [1961] 2 All E.R. 504, distinguished. (4) -Attridge v. Caymanian Protection Bd., 1986–87 CILR 246. (5) -British Oxygen Co. Ltd. v. Minister ......
  • Wu Shu Chen v Raja Zainal Abidin bin Raja Hussin
    • Malaysia
    • Court of Appeal (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Cook v Southend-on-Sea Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 July 1989
    ...adopting a more generous interpretation of who is a "person aggrieved". The first case to which I would here refer is the " Attorney-General of the Gambia v. N'Jie [1961] A.C.617. In this case the Privy Council had to consider whether the Attorney-General, who had not appeared before the We......
  • Turner v Secretary of State for the Environment
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • Invalid date
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4 books & journal articles
  • Legal Profession
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...but reverted to his judicial role in recording the settlement which was reached. (Cf Lord Denning in Attorney General of Gambia v N”Jie[1961] AC 617 at 630.) As analysed by the Court of Appeal, the question was hardly trivial. Objectively speaking, the theory of split capacity and authority......
  • The Evolution and Reform of Standing in Australian Administrative Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 44-2, June 2016
    • 1 June 2016
    ...CLR 552, 558 (Brennan, Dawson, Toohey, Gaudron and McHugh JJ). 61 Bateman’s Bay (1998) 194 CLR 247, 267 [50]. 62 ADJR Act s 3(4)(a). 63 [1961] AC 617. 2016 The Evolution and Reform of Standing in Australian Administrative Law 175 _____________________________________________________________......
  • Cases referred to in 1989 Part II
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1989. Part II Preliminary Sections
    • 29 January 1920
    ...Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co. v. King (1919) 1 K.B 307. ......................................... 213 Attorney General of Gambia v. Njie (1961) A.C. 617. ................................................ 547 Attorney-General of Oyo State and 1 or v. Fairlakes Hotel Ltd. (1988) 5 N.W.L.R. 1. ......
  • Should the Administrative Law Act 1978 (Vic) be repealed?
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 34 No. 2, August 2010
    • 1 August 2010
    ...194 CLR 247, 263. (101) Like so many catchy legal terms, the term "mere busybody' originated with Lord Denning: A-G (Gambia) v N'Jie [1961] AC 617, 634. It should be noted, however, that Lord Denning was also at the forefront of attempts to liberalise standing, notably in the cases of A-G (......

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