Felix v Thomas
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1966 |
| Date | 1966 |
| Year | 1966 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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9 cases
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Lafette Edgehill and Others v Greg Christie
... ... v R (4) (1898) AC 471 (1898) AC 471 ; Felix v Burkett and Thomas (1964) 7 WIR 339 (1964) 7 WIR 339 and Ali v Ashraph (1964) 7 WIR 354 (1964) 7 WIR 354 , in requesting the court to read ... ...
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The Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago v Thomas
...of legislative development of the relevant enactment and derived assistance from an English Act in pari materia (see Felix v. Thomas (1966) 10 W.I.R. 507 at pp. 512-4). 85 Useful assistance on the construction of Commonwealth constitutions may be obtained from the judgments of the Privy Cou......
- Attorney General v Thomas
- Chevalier v Attorney-General and Another
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3 books & journal articles
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Cases referred to in 1983
...Co. Ltd. & Ors. (1926) 1 K.B. 393. 457 Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Jonathan Onyebuchi Eze (1982) 3 N.C.L.R. 259 228 Felix v. Thomas (1967) 1 A.C. 292 at 306 229 Fidelitas Shipping Co. Ltd. v. V/O Exportchled (1966) 1 Q.B. 630. 44 Flast v. Cohen 392 U.S. 83, S.C. 1942 20 L. Ed. 2nd 947. 4......
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Table of Cases
...Felix Nwosu v. The State (1986) 4 N.W.L.R. (Pt. 35) 348 …….................................................…..23 Felix v. Thomas (1967) A.C. 292, p. 306……………….......................................................................249 Ferguson v. Weaving (1951) 1 K.B. 814…….........................
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AS MAY BE PRESCRIBED BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN SECTION 230 OF THE 1979 CONSTITUTION
...of statutes (and this applies to Constitutions) that words must be given their ordinary, plain, natural meaning. See Felix v. Thomas (1967) 1 A.C. 292 - Per Lord Morris at p. 306; Also, Virginia v. Tennesse 148 US 503, 13 S.C.T. 728. Applying this principle, I cannot see how "as may be pres......