Nairn v University Courts of St Andrews and Edinburgh
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Judgment Date | 10 December 1908 |
| Docket Number | No. 5. |
| Date | 10 December 1908 |
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Watkins v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Others
...is certainly how this House approached the converse case of a common law constitutional impediment in Nairn v University of St Andrews [1909] AC 147. A number of women graduates of St Andrews and Edinburgh, who, as graduates, were members of the general council of their university, sought a......
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Re Section 24 of the B.N.A. Act
... ... A similar result was reached in the case of Nairn v. University of St. Andrews F10 , where it was held under ... “The Privy Council, indeed, has laid down that Courts of law must treat the provisions of the British North ... ...
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R v The EcClesiastical Committee of Both Houses of Parliament ex parte the Church Society
...59 I would make much the same comment about the next case he referred to, that of Nairn and Others v University of St Andrews and Others [1909] AC 147, and in particular the words of Lord Ashbourne at page 163: 60 "If it was intended to make a vast constitutional change in favour of women g......
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The Persons Case and the living tree theory of constitutional interpretation.
...30 & 31 Vict c 102, s 3. (16) 13-14 Vict c 21, s 4. (17) Chorlton, supra note 14 at 386. (18) Nairn v the University of St. Andrews, [1909] AC 147. (19) Ibid at (20) UK 9 & 10 GeoV, c 71, s 1. (21) Viscountess Rhonnda's Claim (Committee for Privileges), [1922] AC 339 at 365, 375. (2......