John Laing and Son Ltd v Assessment Committee for Kingswood Assessment Area and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1948
Date1948
CourtKing's Bench Division
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  • Reeves (Listing Officer) v Northrop
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 April 2013
    ...(Again, I have added the emphasis). 23 18. By 1948 Mr Rowe was leading counsel for the rating authority in John Laing & Sons Ltd v Assessment Committee for Kingswood Assessment Area [1949 1 KB 344 and he persuaded Tucker LJ of his analysis of the essential requirements. Tucker LJ said at p......
  • Routhan v Arun District Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 July 1981
    ... ... in the house, living separately from the others ... 7 In December 1978 the ... ingredient is "actual occupation", see John Laing v. Kingswood (1949) 1 KB 344 at page 350 ... for the whole amount of their joint assessment to a poor rate: and a warrant of distress against ... R. v. St ... Pancras Assessment Committee (1877) 2 QB 581 , in which Lush J. said: ... v. Kingswood Assessment Area Assessment Committee (1949) 1 KB 344 where the ... ...
  • London County Council v Wilkins
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 11 July 1956
    ...of the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal in John Laing and Son, Limited v. Assessment Committee for Kingswood Assessment Area [1948] 2 K.B. 116, [1949] 1 K.B. 344, quoted the definition of the "four factors or ingredients of rateability" submitted by Counsel (Mr. Michael Rowe, Q.C.......
  • Westminster City Council v Tomlin
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 June 1989
    ...elements of rateable occupation, set out in John Laing & Son Limited v. Assessment Committee for Bingswood Assessment Area & Ors. (1949)(1) K.B. 344, by Tucker L.J. at page 350. These are: (a) there must be actual occupation; (b) exclusive for the particular purpose of the possessor; (c) i......
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    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume II - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...Pty Ltd (No 2) [2008] WaSC 212 at [27], per Le Miere J. 33 John Laing & Son Ltd v Assessment Committee for Kingswood Assessment Area [1948] 2 KB 116 at 122, per Lord Goddard CJ. 700 ThE SITE sense in physical possession of the land, does not necessarily mean that the contractor, in law, is ......

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