Belcher v Reading Corporation

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1949
CourtChancery Division
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6 cases
  • Westminster City Council v Duke of Westminster and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 7 April 1992
  • Attorney General v Crayford Urban District Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 22 February 1962
    ...fairly described as welfare considerations of all kinds, and he referred to a statement of Mr. Justice Romer, as he then was, in Belcher v. Reading Corporation, reported in 1950, 1 Chancery, p. 380, at p. 391. Mr. Justice Pennycuick rejected this broad argument and in the circumstances it i......
  • Smith v Cardiff Corporation
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 4 November 1953
    ...inexperienced in matters of this kind, for our attention was called to another case, ( Belcher and Others v. Reading Corporation 1950, 1 Chancery, page 380), in which tenants sought to challenge the validity of what the Reading Corporation had been disposed to do, and the form of action the......
  • The Queen v The London Borough of Ealing and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 3 April 1992
    ...comprehended what could be fairly described as welfare considerations of all kinds and he referred to a statement of Romer J in Belcher v. Reading Corporation [1950] Ch., 380 at page 391. Pennycuick J rejected this broad argument and in the circumstances it is unnecessary for me to express ......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Representative Procedures and the Future of Multi‐Party Actions
    • United Kingdom
    • The Modern Law Review No. 62-4, July 1999
    • 1 July 1999
    ...vThompson [1981] 1 QB 88.98 Greig vInsole [1978] 1 WLR 302.99 [1979] 1 WLR 637, 648, 651–2. See also Belcher vReading Corporation [1950] Ch 380 and Price vRhondda Urban District Council [1923] 2 Ch 372 (although the representative nature of the claim wasconsidered on the issue of costs, see......
  • Fiduciary Government: Decentring Property and Taxpayers' Interests
    • United Kingdom
    • Social & Legal Studies No. 6-2, June 1997
    • 1 June 1997
    ...of any debate which explores the radicalpotential of local government in isolation. I CASES CITED Belcher v. Reading Corporation [1949] 2 All ER 969.Board of Education v. Rice [1911] AC 179.Boardman v. Phipps [1967] 2 AC 46.Bromley LBC v. GLC [1982] 1 All ER 129. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia ......

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