Rhondda's (Viscountess) Claim
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1922 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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32 cases
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R (Morgan Grenfell & Company Ltd) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax
...to the question whether a statute is to be read as having overridden some basic tenet of the common law. (Viscountess Rhondda's Claim [1922] 2 AC 339; B v DPP [2000] 2 AC 428) The protection given by the common law to those entitled to claim legal professional privilege is a basic tenet o......
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Crown Estate Commissioners v Roberts
...prerogative of the Crown.” 79. Similarly, Lord Birkenhead L.C., speaking in the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords in Viscountess Rhondda's Claim [1922] 2 A.C. 339 said: “The rule that the words of an instrument shall be taken most strictly against the party employing them —verba......
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R v Z In the matter of a reference under Section 15 of the Criminal Appeal (NI) Act 1980
...in the Act. In order to do this the enactment must be considered as a whole and in its context – see Viscountess Rhondda’s Claim [1922] 2 AC 339 at 397 and Harrison v Lewis [1988] 2 FLR 339 at 344. [32] At the time of the enactment of the Terrorism Act 2000, Parliament was well aware of the......
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R v T
...Although such Parliamentary history was regarded as inadmissible before Pepper v Hart [1993] AC 593 (see Viscountess Rhondda's Claim [1922] 2 AC 339, 383, per Viscount Haldane), it is now possible in appropriate cases to take it into account as an aid to ascertaining the intention of Parlia......
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1 books & journal articles
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From Foreign Circumstances to First Instance Considerations: Extrinsic Material and the Law of Statutory Interpretation
...Ibid. 3 The leading ancient authority is Millar v Taylor (1769) 98 ER 201; a modern reaffirmation appears in Viscountess Rhondda's Claim [1922] 2 AC 339, 383 (Viscount Haldane). For a discussion of this strict English position see, Justice Felix Frankfurter, 'Some Reflections on the Reading......