Attorney General v Edison Telephone Company of London
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judgment Date | 1880 |
Date | 1880 |
Court | Exchequer Division |
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British Broadcasting Corporation v Johns
...inland telegrams, a privilege which was held to extend to telephonic communications when telephony was invented (see Attorney-General v. Edison Telephone Company); but this statutory method of dealing with a new activity by creating a monopoly in the executive government with exceptions whi......
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R (Smeaton (on Behalf of The Society for The Protection of Unborn Children)) v Secretary of State for Health
...Ireland Ltd) v Open Door Counselling Ltd and Dublin Wellwoman Centre Ltd [1988] IR 593, Ir HC. A-G v Edison Telephone Co of London Ltd (1880) 6 QBD 244. A-G’s Reference (No 3 of 1994) [1998] AC 245, [1997] 3 All ER 936, [1997] 3 WLR 421, HL. Airedale NHS Trust v Bland[1994] 1 FCR 485, [1993......
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General Dynamics United Kingdom Ltd v State of Libya
...will in appropriate circumstances be interpreted as including a claim form: compare Attorney General v Edison Telephone Co of London Ltd (1880) 6 QBD 244, where the Exchequer Division of the High Court (Pollock B and Stephen J) held that there was no difference between telephonic and telegr......
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Electronic Signatures And The Solicitors Act 1974 (Elias V Wallace)
...that the 1974 Act should be preserved in aspic." This approach was applied in Attorney General v Edison Telephone Co of London Ltd (1880) 6 QBD 244 which concerned whether communication by telephone fell within the definition of a 'telegram' in the Telegraph Act 1869 notwithstanding that th......
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E-Signed And Delivered: Statute Bills And Compliance With The Solicitors Act ' Elias v Wallace LLP [2022] EWHC 2574 (SCCO)
...the individual affixing it was authorised to sign it (para.25 of the Judgment). 5. [2019] EWHC 2462 (Ch.) 6. Judgment paras.28-30. 7. (1880) 6 QBD 244 8. Judgment, 9. Judgment, para.36. 10. Judgment, para.37. The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject ......
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Table of Cases
...126 Atlantic Star, The [1974] AC 436, [1973] 2 WLR 795, [1973] 2 All ER 175, HL 61 Attorney General v Edison Telephone Co of London Ltd (1880) 6 QBD 244, CA 129 Attorney-General v Guardian Newspapers (No 2) [1990] 1 AC 109, [1988] 2 WLR 805, [1988] 3 All ER 545, CA 137 B (Appeal: Lack of Re......
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The Use of Language in Judgments
...of Appeal, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers MR cited the early illustration of Attorney General v Edison Telephone Co of London Ltd (1880) 6 QBD 244. The Telegraph Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict c 73) gave the Postmaster-General an exclusive right of transmitting telegrams. Telegrams were defined a......
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Table of cases
...66 Attorney General v Edison Telephone Co of London (1880), 6 QBD 244 ..........121 Attorney-General v Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, [1957] AC 436 (HL) ......................................................................................161 Auer v Lionstone Holdings Inc, 2005 ABCA 78 ......
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Original Meaning
..., 2004 FCA 282. 18 A classic example of functional equivalence reasoning is found in Attorney General v Edison Telephone Co of London (1880), 6 QBD 244, in which provisions of UK’s Telegraph Act were applied to newly invented telephones. 19 Above note 4. STATUTORY INTERPRETATION 122 cannabi......
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