Brocklebank Ltd v The King

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1925
CourtCourt of Appeal
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19 cases
  • Ipswich Town Football Club Company Ltd v The Chief Constable of Suffolk Constabulary
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 27 February 2017
    ...cases are Morgan v. Palmer (1824) 2 B & C 729 and Steele v. Williams (1853) 8 Ex 625; a later example of some significance is T. & J. Brocklebank Ltd. v. The King [1925] 1 KB 52. (c) Money paid to a person for the performance of a statutory duty, which he is bound to perform for a sum less......
  • Woolwich Equitable Building Society v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 May 1991
    ...his use." 29The decision of this court was upheld in the House of Lords. 30The same result followed in another decision of this court, Brocklebank v. R. [1924] 1 K.B. 647, which expressly followed the decision in Attorney-General v. Wilts United Dairies. That was a case, also under wartime......
  • Woolwich Equitable Building Society v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 20 July 1992
    ...as a condition of allowing any purchase of milk. That would be a case of extortion colore officii, which was the position in Brocklebank Ltd. v. The King [1924] 1 K.B. 647; [1925] 1 K.B. 52. The Shipping Controller purporting to act under Defence of the Realm Regulations had imposed as a ......
  • Woolwich Building Society v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue, (1992) 145 N.R. 163 (HL)
    • Canada
    • 20 July 1992
    ...General v. Wilts United Dairies Ltd. (1921), 37 T.L.R. 884, refd to. [para. 15 et seq.]. Brocklebank Ltd. v. R., [1924] 1 K.B. 647; [1925] 1 K.B. 52, refd to. [para. 15 et National Pari-Mutual Association Ltd. v. The King (1930), 47 T.L.R. 110, refd to. [para. 16 et seq.]. Twyford v. Manche......
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9 books & journal articles
  • If You Win, You Lose: Strategic Considerations in Bet-the-farm Securities Litigation
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Canadian Class Action Review No. 6-1, April 2010
    • 1 April 2010
    ...case the court should expressly address these questions.” 67 Beatson, above note 12 at 215 [footnotes omitted]. The case citation is [1925] 1 K.B. 52. The action for money paid is in assumpsit. 68 Anon. (1700), 12 Mod. 415. 69 Beatson, above note 12 at 215. VOLUME 6, N o 1, april 2010 31 no......
  • Introduction
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Canadian Class Action Review No. 6-1, April 2010
    • 1 April 2010
    ...case the court should expressly address these questions.” 67 Beatson, above note 12 at 215 [footnotes omitted]. The case citation is [1925] 1 K.B. 52. The action for money paid is in assumpsit. 68 Anon. (1700), 12 Mod. 415. 69 Beatson, above note 12 at 215. VOLUME 6, N o 1, april 2010 31 no......
  • An Old Snail in a New Bottle? Waiver of Tort as An Independent Cause of Action
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Canadian Class Action Review No. 6-1, April 2010
    • 1 April 2010
    ...case the court should expressly address these questions.” 67 Beatson, above note 12 at 215 [footnotes omitted]. The case citation is [1925] 1 K.B. 52. The action for money paid is in assumpsit. 68 Anon. (1700), 12 Mod. 415. 69 Beatson, above note 12 at 215. VOLUME 6, N o 1, april 2010 31 no......
  • Waiving Goodbye: The Rise and Imminent Fall of Waiver of Tort in Class Proceedings
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Canadian Class Action Review No. 6-1, April 2010
    • 1 April 2010
    ...case the court should expressly address these questions.” 67 Beatson, above note 12 at 215 [footnotes omitted]. The case citation is [1925] 1 K.B. 52. The action for money paid is in assumpsit. 68 Anon. (1700), 12 Mod. 415. 69 Beatson, above note 12 at 215. VOLUME 6, N o 1, april 2010 31 no......
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