Commissioners for Special Purposes of the Income Tax v Pemsel

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date20 July 1891
Judgment citation (vLex)[1891] UKHL J0720-1
CourtHouse of Lords
Date20 July 1891
Commissioners for Special Purposes of the Income Tax
and
Pemsel.

[1891] UKHL J0720-1

House of Lords

1

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...

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