Nairn v University Courts of St Andrews and Edinburgh

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtHouse of Lords
Judgment Date10 December 1908
Docket NumberNo. 5.
Date10 December 1908

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9 cases
  • Watkins v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 29 March 2006
    ...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......
  • Re Section 24 of the B.N.A. Act
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • Invalid date
    ... ... 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 ... ...
  • R v The EcClesiastical Committee of Both Houses of Parliament ex parte the Church Society
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 28 October 1993
    ...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......
  • Petra Jaya Transport (S) v Public Prosecutor
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2013
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1 books & journal articles
  • The Persons Case and the living tree theory of constitutional interpretation.
    • Canada
    • University of New Brunswick Law Journal No. 64, January 2013
    • 1 January 2013
    ...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......