London Tramways Company, Ltd, v London County Council

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date25 April 1898
Judgment citation (vLex)[1898] UKHL J0425-1
CourtHouse of Lords
Date25 April 1898
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  • Kerajaan Malaysia v Tay Chai Huat
    • Malaysia
    • Federal Court (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • O'Brien v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 October 2000
    ...PLC UNREP SUPREME 30.7.1999 JOHN V MGN LTD 1996 2 AER 35 AG V RYANS CAR HIRE LTD 1965 IR 642 LONDON STREET TRAMWAYS CO V LONDON CO COUNCIL 1898 AC 375 MOGUL OF IRELAND V TIPPERARY (NORTH RIDING) CO COUNCIL 1976 IR 260 SMITH V CAVAN & MONAGHAN CO COUNCILS 1949 IR 322 MILOSLAVSKY V UNITED K......
  • The People (Director of Public Prosecutions) v J.C.
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 15 April 2015
    ...of law unless and until relieved from so doing, by legislative enactment ( London Street Tramways Co. Ltd v. London County Council [1898] A.C. 375). Even however with such a strong attachment to the rule, some relaxation was evident as early as 1928 ( Robert Addie & Sons (Collieries) Ltd v.......
  • DN (Rwanda) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 February 2018
    ...in 1966, the House modified, in relation to its own practice, the rule laid down in London Street Tramways Co Ltd v London County Council [1898] AC 375, it described the use of precedent as: “an indispensable foundation upon which to decide what is the law and its application to individual ......
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  • Divergence On The Proximity Test For "Nervous Shock"' Will It Last?
    • Ireland
    • Mondaq Ireland
    • 25 January 2023
    ...EWCA Civ 12. 8. Taylor v A. Novo (UK) Limited [2013] EWCA Civ 194. 9. ibid para.93. 10. London Street Tramways v London County Council [1898] AC 375. 11. The Practice Statement [1966] 3 All ER 12. Séamus Henchy, Precedent in the Irish Supreme Court, Modern Law Review, Volume 25 Issue 5, Sep......
7 books & journal articles
  • THE SUPER PANEL DOCTRINE.
    • Canada
    • University of British Columbia Law Review Vol. 54 No. 1, September 2021
    • 10 September 2021
    ...supra note 6 at 24-25. The House of Lords held that it was bound by its prior decisions in London Tramways v London County Council, [1898] AC 375, [1898] UKHL 1 (BAILII). The Court of Appeal held that it was normally bound to follow its previous decisions as early as 1879 in Re South Durham......
  • Appellate Jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice
    • Jamaica
    • The Caribbean Court of Justice: Closing the Circle of Independence Content
    • 21 November 2004
    ...Court of Justice is ominously reminiscent of that attributed to Lord Halsbury in London Street Tramways Co. Ltd. v. London County Council [1898] AC 375. to wit, ‘. . . a decision of this House upon a question of law is conclusive’. This statement is alleged to have established the doctrine ......
  • Original Jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice
    • Jamaica
    • The Caribbean Court of Justice: Closing the Circle of Independence Content
    • 21 November 2004
    ...Law , 11th ed. (London: Butterworths, 1994), 68. 27. Ibid ., 69. 28. London Street Tramways Co. Ltd. v. London County Council [1898] AC 375. 29. See Duke E.E. Pollard, ‘The Caribbean Court of Justice: Challenge and Response’, in CARICOM Perspective , Vol.1, 1999, p.32. 30. See Jerome B. Elk......
  • THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF CHANGE: UNDERSTANDING THE BEDFORD/CARTER EXCEPTIONS TO VERTICAL STARE DECISIS.
    • Canada
    • 1 January 2020
    ...so it is not discussed further in this article. (16) See The London Tramways Company, Ltd v The London County Council, [ 1898] UKHL 1, [1898] AC 375. Intriguingly, that case also took a tentative step towards explaining the importance of stare decisis, finding that it ensured a "finis litum......
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