Commissioners for Special Purposes of the Income Tax v Pemsel
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 20 July 1891 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1891] UKHL J0720-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 20 July 1891 |
[1891] UKHL J0720-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel, as well on Thursday the 20th, as Friday the 21st, and Monday the 24th days of March 1890, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Commissioners for Special Purposes of the Income Tax, Somerset House, Strand, in the county of Middlesex, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 21st of December 1888, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of John Frederick Pemsel, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the Court of Parliament of Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 21st of December 1888, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby Affirmed, and that the said Petition and Appeal be, and the same is hereby dismissed this House: And it is further Ordered, That the Appellants do pay or cause...
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