R v St. Pancras Assessment Committee

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1876
Date1876
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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28 cases
  • Hampton (Dick) (Earth Moving) Ltd v Lewis
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 9 June 1975
    ...law or to construct out of it any working rule. It started with an observation made 100 years ago by Mr. Justice Lush in The Queen v. St. Pancras Assessment Committee (1877) 2 Q. B. D. at page 589. That case concerned an advertisement hoarding put up as a temporary structure. Mr. Justice Lu......
  • City of Newcastle v Royal Newcastle Hospital
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Harrington v Crowley
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 January 1946
    ...Stated by the District Justice: Held, by Maguire P., applying the test laid down by Lush J. in R. v. St. Pancras Assessment CommitteeELR, 2 Q. B. D 581, at p. 588, that the occupation of the premises by the defendant had an element of permanence sufficient to make him liable to be rated. By......
  • Routhan v Arun District Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 July 1981
    ...and whether or not they exist in a given case is a question of fact. 43 The above propositions emerge from a number of decided cases. R. v. St. Pancras Assessment Committee (1877) 2 QB 581, in which Lush J. said: "Occupation includes possession as its primary element…" Also, Laing (John) & ......
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  • Table of Cases
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon's Laws of Nigeria. Volume 11 Preliminary sections
    • 3 July 2016
    ...C.A. pp. R. 183…………..........................................................................…427 R. v. St. Pancras Assessment Committee, 2 Q.B.D. 581.............................................…………..325 R. v. Sunderland Justices (1901) 2 K.B. 367………..............................................
  • OCCUPYING UNDER SECTION 2 OF THE RECOVERY OF PREMISES ACT
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian Law. First edition O
    • 6 February 2019
    ...which include - "to take possession of", "to reside in" and "to make use of". In the Queen v. St. Pancras Assessment Committee (1977) 2. Q.B.D. 581 Lush, J. said as to the requirement of occupation for the purposes of liability for rates at page 588: - "It is not easy to give an accurate an......

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