Oscroft v Benabo

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1966
Date1966
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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20 cases
  • St George's Healthcare NHS Trust v S; R v Collins and Others, ex parte S
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
    ...[1945] AC 271, PC. New Brunswick Rly Co v British and French Trust Corp Ltd [1939] AC 1, [1938] 4 All ER 747, HL. Oscroft v Benabo [1967] 2 All ER 548, [1967] 1 WLR 1087, CA. Paton v British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trustees [1979] QB 276, [1978] 2 All ER 987, [1978] 3 WLR 687. R v Hallst......
  • Jones v Department of Employment
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 Noviembre 1987
    ...hitherto successful, litigate the matter again at the risk of having to pay the costs not only below but in this court." 15 Finally, in Oscroft v. Benabo (1967) 1 W.L.R. 1087, again a decision of this court, Willmer L.J. said at pages 1091–2: "As to the first point, ever since Smith v. Bake......
  • Dean Golding v Deborah Allen Martin
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 Marzo 2019
    ...by making an order on a false hypothesis of fact: see Whall v Bulman [1953] 2 QB 198, as explained by Diplock LJ in Oscroft v Benabo [1967] 1 WLR 1087, 1099F-G. The second is where the county court has enforced an illegal contract: see Snell v Unity Finance Co Ltd [1964] 2 QB 203. The thi......
  • Pittalis v Grant
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 Marzo 1989
    ...was in all material respects to the same effect as the 1888 Act. The rule was given renewed vigour by the decision of this court in Oscroft v. Benabo [1967] 1 W.L.R. 1087. By that time a limited right of appeal on questions of fact had been given by the County Courts Act 1959, but the possi......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Legal Practitioner
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon's Laws of Nigeria. Volume 15 Legal Practitioner
    • 10 Julio 2016
    ...criticism being leveled at the learned trial. I shall like to preface the comment with reverence to Lord Diplock in Oscroft v. Benabo (1967) 2 All E.R. 548 at page 557. Said the Lord Justice: -“Court (even inferior Courts) have “jurisdiction” to be wrong in law, that is why we hear appeals ......
  • Appellate court's
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon on Election Petitions. Volume 1. Part I Appeal
    • 8 Septiembre 2012
    ...have jurisdiction to be wrong in law. That is why we hear appeals on questions of law” per Lord Diplock L.J. in Oscroft v. Benabo (1967) 2 All E.R. 548 at p.557. The respondent is not now seeking for the “ Leave ” of this Court to appeal against the “ decision ” made on the 15-12-88. No. Pa......
  • HEARING
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian Law. First edition H
    • 6 Febrero 2019
    ...have jurisdiction to be wrong in law. That is why we sit here on appeals on questions of law. See Diplock, L.J. in Oscroft v. Benebo (1967) 2 All E.R. 548, 557." - Per Nsofor, J.C.A. in Afribank (Nig.) Plc. v. Shanu Suit No. CA/B/103/94; (1997) 7 N.W.L.R. (Pt. 514) 601 at 624 - (2) "In the ......

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