Pointe Gourde Quarrying and Transport Company Ltd v Sub-Intendent of Crown Lands

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1947
Date1947
CourtPrivy Council
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193 cases
  • Springfield Land Corporation (No 2) Pty Ltd v Queensland
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 11 May 2011
    ...‘the scheme underlying the acquisition’. This is associated with what was said by the Privy Council in Pointe Gourde Quarrying and Transport Co Ltd v Sub-Intendent of Crown Lands10. But, while acknowledging the absence of the expression from s 20 of the Acquisition Act, the arbitrator said ......
  • Camrose (Viscount) v Basingstoke Corporation
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 25 May 1966
    ...parcel of land if the increase is entirely due to the scheme involving the acquisition. That was settled by the Pointe Gourde case, 1947 Appeal Cases, p. 565, where the Privy Council disallowed the £15,000 increase in value of the quarry (which was compulsorily acquired) which was due to th......
  • Waters and Others v Welsh Development Agency
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 29 April 2004
    ...it as a palliative measure because of the environmental consequences of the Cardiff Bay barrage, following Pointe Gourde Quarrying and Transport Co Ltd v Sub-Intendent of Crown Lands [1947] AC 565. 13 The President answered the first issue in favour of the claimants. Rule 3 does not apply ......
  • Wilson v Liverpool Corporation
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 November 1970
    ... ... Court of Appeal (On appeal from the Lands Tribunal. 23. 2. 70.) ... MR. T. H. PIGOT, Q ... , in making their valuation, applied the Pointe Gourde principle, when they ought not to have ... ...
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Resumption of land and compensation: The Pointe Gourde principle
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 19 October 2016
    ...takes its name from the well-known case of Pointe Gourde Quarrying & Transport Co Ltd v SubIntendent of Crown Lands (Trinidad) [1947] AC 565, which is a decision of the Privy Council. In that case, Lord MacDermott said at page 572 "It is well settled that compensation for compulsory acq......
3 books & journal articles
  • Utility wayleaves: a compensation lottery?
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Property Investment & Finance No. 20-2, April 2002
    • 1 April 2002
    ...3, para. 7.29. Denyer-Green (1999), supra n. 230. Derived from Pointe Gourde Quarrying and Transport Co.v,Sub-Intendent of CrownLands [1947] AC 565. The principle is to the effect that increases or decreases in value dueto the scheme underlying the acquisition should be ignored in assessing......
  • Land Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2002, December 2002
    • 1 December 2002
    ...and 34 of the Act. This common law principle was laid down in Pointe Gourde Quarrying and Transport Co Ltd v Sub-Intendent of Crown Lands[1947] AC 565. The local case of Chew Ming Teck v Collector of Land Revenue[1988] SLR 118 had earlier made reference to the Pointe Gourde principle althou......
  • Assessing the compensation for electricity wayleaves
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Property Investment & Finance No. 17-2, May 1999
    • 1 May 1999
    ...land due to the acquiring authority's scheme (s.6and the rule in Pointe Gourde Quarrying and Transport Co. v. Sub-Intendent ofCrown Lands [1947] AC 565). In summary, in assessing depreciation and theeffects of other injurious affection, it is the effect on the market value of the landwhich ......

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