Fisher v Oldham Corporation

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1930
Year1930
CourtKing's Bench Division
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51 cases
  • Board of Trustees of the Sabah Foundation and Others and Another Application, The; Datuk Syed Kechik bin Syed Mohamed and Another
    • Malaysia
    • Federal Court (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Yarl's Wood Immigration Ltd and Others v Bedfordshire Police Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 30 September 2008
    ... ... Police Commissioner ex p BlackburnELR [1968] QB 118, 135 ) and their police authorities ( Fisher v Oldham CorporationELR [1930] 2 QB 384 ). The Bedfordshire police force is thus an independent ... ...
  • Farah v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 9 October 1996
    ...contesting the notion that a constable is to be regarded as the agent of the chief officer of police, relies on the decision in Fisher v Oldham Corporation [1930] 2 KB 364. The question at issue is that case was whether the police appointed by the watch committee, in effecting an unlawful a......
  • Kernohan v Governor
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 11 July 2011
    ...EWHC 1072 (QB), referred to. (7) Elliott v. Cayman Islands Health Servs. Auth., 2007 CILR 163, followed. (8) Fisher v. Oldham Corp., [1930] 2 K.B. 364, followed. (9) Gong v. CDH China Mgmt. Co. Ltd., 2011 (1) CILR 57, followed. (10) Johnson v. Unisys Ltd., [2003] 1 A.C. 518; [2001] 2 W.L.R.......
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8 books & journal articles
  • Keeping control of terrorists without losing control of constitutionalism.
    • United States
    • Stanford Law Review Vol. 59 No. 5, March 2007
    • 1 March 2007
    ...(Mar. 3, 2005) 442, 539 (Baroness Scotland). (237.) For explanations and applications of the doctrine, see Fisher v. Oldham Corp., [1930] 2 K.B. 364; Attorney-General for New South Wales v. Perpetual Trustee Co., [1955] A.C. 457; R v. Police Commissioner of the Metropolis, [1968] 2 Q.B. 118......
  • Democracy, Liberty and the Prerogative: The Displacement of Inherent Executive Power by Statute
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 41-2, June 2013
    • 1 June 2013
    ...'Drawing the Thin Blue Line: The Reality of Who Controls the Police' (2004) 77 Police Journal 135, 135. 226 Fisher v Oldham Corporation [1930] 2 KB 364; A-G (NSW) v Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd [1955] AC 457; R v Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis; Ex parte Blackburn [1968] 2 QB 118. 227......
  • Employment status of the police in Australia.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 27 No. 1, April 2003
    • 1 April 2003
    ...Kingdom, Report of the Royal Commission on Police Powers and Procedure, Cmnd 3297 (1929) [15]. (18) (1906) 3 CLR 969 ('Enever'). (19) [1930] 2 KB 364 (20) See, eg, Zuijs v Wirth Brothers Pty Ltd (1955) 93 CLR 561; Stevens v Brodribb Sawmilling Co Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 16. (21) This issue is ad......
  • The Unwelcome Visitor
    • United Kingdom
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 19-4, October 1946
    • 1 October 1946
    ...at any rate so far as the Police Pensions Act, 1921, applies.Whether, however, in view of the decision of Fisher v. Oldham Corpora-tion (1930) 2K.B.364; 94J.P.132, wherein it was heldthatpoliceofficers were not servants or agents of the corporation,butpublicservants and officers of the crow......
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