Fisher v Fisher

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1942
Year1942
CourtCourt of Appeal
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9 cases
  • Tan Pau Soon v Lim Beng Choo
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 25 March 1997
    ...above a year and that `on`, if not confined to the time of making the decree, must mean shortly after.Next, there was Fisher v Fisher [1942] 1 All ER 438. In that case, the appellant obtained a decree nisi for divorce in March 1934, which was made absolute in October of the same year. No ap......
  • Wisely v John Fulton (Plumbers) Ltd; Wadey v Surrey County Council
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 6 April 2000
    ...Beveridge that an injured person should not be compensated twice over for the same loss: Social Insurance and Allied Services, Cmnd. 6404 (1942), p. 101, para. 260. He suggested that this principle could be preserved if the claimant repaid the benefits to the Ministry when he was awarded da......
  • Minton v Minton
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 23 November 1978
    ...after": later they extended its meaning so that the jurisdiction could be exercised "on or within a reasonable time thereafter": see Fisher v. Fisher [1942] P. 101 and Shott v. Shott [1952] 1 All.E.R. 21Such were the limitations upon the jurisdiction until 1958. Section 1 of the Matrimonia......
  • Deacock v Deacock
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 18 June 1958
    ...of the word "on" In the statute under consideration. 9 This matter has come up to this Court on a number of occasions since 1921. Fisher v. Fisher is the next case to which I need refer (reported in 1942 Probate at page 100). I think that the Court there quite clearly approached the matter ......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Statute-barred cohabitant claimants in Barbados
    • Caribbean Community
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 2-1, June 1992
    • 1 June 1992
    ...90-679. 16 Althaus and Althaus (1982) FLC 91-233 at 77,268. See also Bennett and Bennett (1985) FLC 91-617 at 79,995. 17 Fisher v. Fisher [1942] P. 101. "So long as the wife was content to rely on her husband continuing to provide her with accommodation, she had no need to pursue a claim ag......
  • One-Shot Party Primaries: The Case of the Romanian Social Democrats
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Politics No. 33-3, October 2013
    • 1 October 2013
    ...selection in the life of a party is well established: ‘he who canmake the nominations is the owner of the party’ (Schattschneider, 1942, p. 101). The locusof decision (centralisation) and the inclusiveness (the participatory element) are its crucialcomponents. The centralisation of candidat......
  • Criminal Law and Practice in Scotland
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 16-1, January 1943
    • 1 January 1943
    ...concerned in disposingsimultaneously of the two charges.THENEEDFOR AN INTERPRETEROster Meah and Others v. BinnieIn our issue of April 1942 (p. 101), emphasis was given to the rulethat no vital step should be taken, either by the police or in court, inrelation to a foreigner charged with a s......

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