Atty.-Gen'l for Canada v Ritchie Contracting and Supply Company and Att'y.-Gen'l for British Columbia

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1913
Date1913
CourtPrivy Council
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80 cases
  • R. v. Gladstone (W.) et al., (1996) 200 N.R. 189 (SCC)
    • Canada
    • Canada (Federal) Supreme Court (Canada)
    • 21 August 1996
    ...50 C.R.(3d) 1; 24 C.C.C.(3d) 321; 19 C.R.R. 308, refd to. [para. 63]. British Columbia (Attorney General) v. Canada (Attorney General), [1914] A.C. 153 (P.C.), refd to. [para. R. v. Jones (1993), 14 O.R.(3d) 421 (Prov. Div.), refd to. [para. 98]. United States v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad C......
  • Barlow v Minister for Agriculture
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 27 October 2016
    ...in County Donegal, Murnaghan J. quoted with approval a passage from Viscount Haldane L.C. in AG for British Columbia v. AG for Canada [1914] A.C. 153: '[T]he subjects of the Crown are entitled as of right not only to navigate but to fish in the high seas and tidal waters alike... It is pro......
  • Isle of Anglesey and Others v The Welsh Ministers and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 February 2009
    ...(para 93) 60 He considered in some detail the authorities relating to the public right, including AG for British Columbia v AG for Canada [1914] AC 153 at pp.168–171;Blundell v Catterall (1821) 106 ER 1190; [1814–23] All ER Rep at p.46; Corporation of Truro v Rowe [1901] 2 KB 870, 878Wills ......
  • Alegrete Shipping Company Inc. v International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (The Sea Empress)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 7 February 2003
    ...such right would at common law be actionable as a public nuisance: Attorney General for British Columbia v. Attorney General for Canada [1914] AC 153 and Jan de Nul (U.K.) Ltd. v. N.V. Royale Belge [2002] 1 LI.R.583. However, I am prepared to assume that there can be claims under the statut......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Self-government and the inalienability of aboriginal title.
    • Canada
    • McGill Law Journal Vol. 47 No. 3, May 2002
    • 1 May 2002
    ...Gann v. Free Fishers of Whitstable (1865), 11 H.L.C. 192, 11 E.R. 1305 [hereinafter Gann]; British Columbia (A.G.) v. Canada (A.G.), [1914] A.C. 153 (EC.); Harper v. Minister for Sea Fisheries (1989), 168 C.L.R. 314 (H.C. Austl.); Yarmirr, supra note 2 at 471-77 (Beaumont and von Doussa JJ.......
  • The dangers of the reference question: SCC v. SCOTUS.
    • United States
    • Canada-United States Law Journal Vol. 40 No. 1, March 2016
    • 22 March 2016
    ...Power and Canadian Democracy, 255-96 (McGill-Queens ed. 2001). (39) Attorney General for British Columbia v. Attorney General for Canada [1914] A. C. 153, 162. For further animadversions on advisory pronouncements by judges, see Lord Chancellor Sankey in In re The Regulation and Control of ......
  • The Crown's radical title and native title: lessons from the sea.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 35 No. 2, August 2011
    • 1 August 2011
    ...Fitzhardinge v Purcell [1908] 2 Ch 139. See also Yarmirr (2001) 208 CLR 1, 156 [358] (Callinan J); A-G (British Columbia) v A-G (Canada) [1914] AC 153, 174, where Viscount Haldane LC (for Viscount Haldane LC and Lords Atkinson and Moulton) specifically left this question open. (45) (1975) 1......

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