Nixon v Attorney General
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Judgment Date | 28 November 1930 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1930] UKHL J1128-1 |
| Date | 28 November 1930 |
[1930] UKHL J1128-1
House of Lords
Nixon and Others
and
Attorney-General.
1
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants as well yesterday as this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of John Nixon, of 75, The Vale, Golders Green, in the County of London, John Scott, of 273, Wake Green Road, Moseley, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, William Clark, of 6, Osborne Villa, Tresowas, Ashton, Helston, in the County of Cornwall and Benjamin Louis Samuel, of 83a, High Street, Marylebone, in the County of London, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in...
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Tee Soon Kay v Attorney-General
...are in fact both logical and fair. In this regard, the leading authority is that of the House of Lords in Nixon v Attorney-General [1931] AC 184 (“Nixon”). In Nixon, the court was faced with s 30 of the English Superannuation Act of 1834 (c 24) which provided [N]othing in this Act contained......
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R (Public and Commercial Services Union) v Minister for the Civil Service
...of the issue of entitlements for civil servants under these legislative provisions is in the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Nixon v Attorney General [1930] 1Ch 566. The case went on appeal to the House of Lords where, in a short decision, the Judicial Committee affirmed the judgments g......
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Public and Commercial Services Union and Others v The Minister for the Civil Service
...9 The effect of the 1834 provisions was considered by the Court of Appeal and by the House of Lords in Nixon v A-G. [1930] 1 Ch 566 and [1931] AC 184 where it was held that "entitlement" to payments meant no more in these Acts than that the relevant person was "entitled to expect" or "quali......
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