Re Wykes, decd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1961
CourtChancery Division
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  • Ulrich and Others v Treasury Solicitor and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 28 January 2005
    ...see [1962] 1 Ch 78. In the intervening period the point came before the court at first instance in two further cases. In the first, Re Wykes decd [1961] I Ch 229, a testator had made a bequest to the directors of a company "to be used at their discretion as a benevolent or welfare fund or f......
  • DPP v Quilligan and O'Reilly
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 January 1987
    ...OF MOUNTJOY 1985 ILRM 465 VACHER & SONS LTD V LONDON SOCIETY OF COMPOSITORS 1913 AC 107 WARD V HOLMAN 1964 2 QBD 580 WYKES, IN RE 1961 2 WLR 115 1 JUDGMENT delivered on the 25th day of July 1986by Walsh J. (Hederman 2This is an appeal brought by the Director of Public Prosecutions against......
  • Re Harpur's Will Trusts
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 4 July 1961
    ... ... then or wrong, as Mr Justice Buckley whose argument as Counsel did not then prevail with me but who has as Judge reasserted it recently in Re Wykes and thus affected to overrule me, does not I think arise for decision now. The fact regains that the terms of the statute are most unhappy. My Lord ... ...
  • Re St Andrew's (Cheam) Lawn Tennis Club Trust; Philippe and Others v Cameron and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 2 May 2012
    ...to be perplexed by its provisions have accused it. 30. An approach on the above lines has no difficulty in drawing a line between In re Wykes, decd [1961] Ch 229, on the one hand, and In re Saxone Shoe Co Ltd's Trust Deed [1962] 1 WLR 943, on the other. In In re Wykes, as Cross J pointed ou......
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