Felix v Thomas

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1966
Date1966
Year1966
CourtPrivy Council

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9 cases
  • Lafette Edgehill and Others v Greg Christie
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 30 March 2012
    ... ... 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 ... ...
  • The Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago v Thomas
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 19 January 1979
    ...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
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • Invalid date
  • Chevalier v Attorney-General and Another
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • Invalid date
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3 books & journal articles
  • Cases referred to in 1983
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1983 Preliminary Sections
    • 22 November 2022
    ...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......
  • Table of Cases
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon's Laws of Nigeria. Volume 7: Part I Preliminary sections
    • 29 June 2016
    ...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…….........................
  • AS MAY BE PRESCRIBED BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN SECTION 230 OF THE 1979 CONSTITUTION
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian Law. First edition A
    • 7 September 2019
    ...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......