Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Mobil North Sea Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date29 November 1985
Date29 November 1985
CourtChancery Division
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5 cases
  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Herd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session (Inner House - Extra Division)
    • 14 February 1992
    ...to the effect that the draftsman must be assumed to have used the shortest form of wording available: I.R.C. v. Mobil North Sea OilWLR [1986] 1 W.L.R. 296 at p. 303. The marginal note could not be used as an aid to construction: David Watson Property Management v. Woolwich Equitable Buildin......
  • Benjamin Dean v The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Dart Energy (west England) Plc (Interested Party)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 14 August 2017
    ...Court in the Mobil case 119 Mr. Wolfe QC placed heavily reliance upon the decision in Inland Revenue Commissioners v Mobil North Sea Ltd [1986] 1 WLR 296 in which Harman J held that a petroleum licence granted under the 1934 Act did not fall within the meaning of a "contract" as used in sec......
  • Padmore v Commissioners of Inland Revenue (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Special Commissioners (UK)
    • 21 June 2000
    ...of Appeal reached its decision, updated as and where necessary to take account of events occurring since that decision: see in particular [1986] BTC 3 at pages 6-7. Such events together with the facts set out in paragraph 7 above, do not affect the essential factual basis upon which the Cou......
  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Mobil North Sea Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 November 1986
    ...(7)Finance Act 1981, sec. 111(1), (7). This was an appeal by the taxpayer company against a judgment of Harman J. (reported at [1986] BTC 3) whereby he held that expenditure incurred before 1 June 1983 under contracts entered into after 31 December 1980 did not qualify for supplement allowa......
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