Gilbert v Gilbert

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1928
Date1928
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • Farrell v Alexander
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 July 1975
    ...statute. The object of such an Act is "to reproduce the law as it stood before", per Lord Hanworth, Master of the Rolls, in Gilbert v. Gilbert (1928) P at page 7. Accordingly, it is well settled that there is a presumption that Parliament does not intend to alter the existing law when at en......
  • Grey v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 2 November 1959
    ...is that such an Act is not intended to alter the law, but this primâ facie view must yield to plain words to the contrary, see Gilbert v. Gilbert and Boucher [1928] P. 1 per Scrutton, L.J. at p. 8. If the Law of Property Act, 1925, was a typical consolidating Act, the question would be whe......
  • Gallagher v H. M. Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 20 November 1936
    ...to. 8 54 and 55 Vict. cap. 69. 9 Alison, Criminal Law of Scotland, vol. ii, pp. 35, 36 and 38. 10 Gilbert v. Gilbert and BoucherELR, [1928] P. 1, Scrutton, L.J., at p. 1 Cf. secs. 8, 12 and 15. 2 54 and 55 Vict. cap. 69, sec. 1 (2). 3 50 and 51 Vict. cap. 35, sec. 56. 4 48 and 49 Vict. cap.......
  • Shanmugam Nagaiah and Another v Sivakolunthu Kumarasamy
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 15 December 1987
    ...853 (refd) Fender v St John-Mildmay [1936] 1 KB 111, CA (refd) Fender v St John-Mildmay [1938] AC 1, HL (refd) Gilbert v Gilbert & Boucher [1928] P 1 (distd) Harris v Goddard [1983] 1 WLR 1203 (refd) Hawksley v May [1956] 1 QB 304; [1955] 3 All ER 353 (refd) Jack Chia-MPH Ltd v Malayan Cred......
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  • Eutopias and dystopias of science.
    • Australia
    • Arena Journal No. 25-26, September 2005
    • 22 September 2005
    ...T. Werner Laurie, 1914. (24.) E. Forster, 'The Machine Stops', in The Eternal Moment and Other Stories, London, Sedgwick & Jackson, 1928, pp. 1-61. (25.) E. Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race, London, George Routledge and Sons, (26.) See R. Langer, 'Fast New World', Collier's, no. 106, 1940......

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