Davis v Bromley Corporation
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
| Date | 1908 |
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Harmon Cfem Facades (Uk) Ltd (Plaintiff) v The Corporate Officer of The House of Commons
...of what were manifestly statutory powers were under consideration: Cannock Chase District Council v. Kelly [1978] 1 W.L.R. 1: Davis v. Bromley Corporation [1908] 1 K.B. 170; Smith v. EastElloe Rural District Council [1956] A.C. 736 and David v. Abdul Cader [1963] 1 W.L.R. 834. In Bourgoin i......
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Watkins v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Others
...understood as actionable per se, and that the House should apply the law as thus understood. Misfeasance in public office 11 In Davis v Bromley Corporation [1908] 1 KB 170 the Court of Appeal held, in effect, that a cause of action for misfeasance in public office did not exist. It is unsur......
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Misfeasance in public office: a very peculiar tort.
...of the fraudsters who had run the failed bank. (239) Vaughan Williams LJ thought it 'perfectly clear' in Davis v Bromley Corporation [1908] 1 KB 170, 173 that a builder could not get damages for a council's malicious refusal of a building permit; even a grant of mandamus would have gone no ......