Bowers v Gloucester Corporation
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Divisional Court |
| Judgment Date | 1963 |
| Date | 1963 |
| Year | 1963 |
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11 cases
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Mullins v Harnett
...CONSTITUTION ART 15.5 MAXWELL INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES 12ED 239 – 240 BENNION STATUTORY INTERPRETATION 2ED 382 BOWERS V GLOUCESTER CORP 1963 1 QB 881 MCDAID V SHEEHY 1991 1 IR 1 Synopsis Criminal Law Assault contrary to common law; abolition of offence; retrospectivity; statutory intepret......
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Fingleton v Central Bank of Ireland
...mischief of the statute, the construction of the penal statute differs little, if at all, from that of any other.” In the case of Bowers v. Gloucester Corpn. [1963] 1 Q.B. 881 at p. 887 Lord Parker C.J. stated:- “A provision can only be said to be ambiguous, in the sense that if it be a pen......
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DPP v Clyne
...to the meaning of a word or phrase, referring to Maxwell on The interpretation of Statutes (12 th Edition) and the decision in Bowers v. Gloucester Corporation [1963] 1 QB 881, where it was said by Lord Parker that a provision can only be said to be ambiguous in this context where, having ......
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Farrell v Alexander
...penal provision is difficult to construe: but only when it is truly ambiguous so as to be capable of two meanings, see Bowers v. Gloucester Corporation (1963) 1 Q. B. 881: Reg, v. Ortewell (1970) A. C. at page 649. It has to give way to the much better rule that the Courts should look to th......
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2 books & journal articles
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Rethinking the Mental Element in Involuntary Manslaughter
...(n 104); RvG(n 3). In RvK(n 114); B (A Minor) v DPP (n 114).165. HKSAR v Chow Heung Wing (n 3); RvG(n 3).166. Bowers v Gloucester Corp [1963] 1 QB 881 at 884; Rathbone v Bundock [1962] 2 QB 260 at 272; Attorney-General’sReference No 48 of 1994 (1995) 16 Cr App R (S) 980 at 986. See too G Wi......
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Accusation as Proof: Uncorroborated Historic Sexual Abuse Allegations
...Crime, Proof and Punishment, Essays in Memory of SirRupert Cross (Butterworths, London 1981) at 193 et seq.74. Bowers v Gloucester Corp. [1963] 1 QB 881 at 884; Rathbone v Bundock [1962] 2 QB 260 at 272; Attorney-General’sReference No 48 of 1994 (1995) 16 Cr App R (S) 980 at 986; likewise i......
