Sammut v Strickland

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1938
Year1938
Date1938
CourtPrivy Council
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33 cases
  • Wacando v Commonwealth
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Delgamuukw et al. v. British Columbia et al., (1993) 30 B.C.A.C. 1 (CA)
    • Canada
    • British Columbia Court of Appeal (British Columbia)
    • 25 June 1993
    ...782 (P.C.), refd to. [para. 369]. Cooper v. Stuart (1889), 14 App. Cas. 286 (P.C.), refd to. [paras. 370, 526]. Sammut v. Strickland, [1938] A.C. 678; [1938] 3 All E.R. 693 (P.C.), refd to. [para. St. Catherines Milling and Lumber Co. v. R. (1887), 13 S.C.R. 577, refd to. [para. 376]. South......
  • Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 23 July 1968
    ...also an infringement of the specific principle laid down in such cases as Campbell v. HallENR (1 Cowp. 204) and Sammut v. StricklandELR (1938) A.C. 678, that a right of revocation must be specially reserved or it will not exist. See particularly the remarks of Lord Maugham, reported at p. 7......
  • Sanatan Charma Maha Sabha of Trinidad and Tobago Inc. and Others v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 28 April 2009
    ...the colony could be required to recognise. This was not something that could be done without an Act of Parliament. In Sammut v Strickland [1938] AC 678, 704 the Board said that the Crown was not deprived in these circumstances of the right to legislate irrevocably. But it confirmed that, as......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Reasoning with the Foundations of Rules
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 46-1, March 2018
    • 1 March 2018
    ...of tenures] necessarily applied in so far as … such laws were applicable to the conditions of the new Colony’: Sammut v Strickland [1938] AC 678, 701, quoted in Mabo (1992) 175 CLR 1, 80 (Deane and Gaudron JJ). 136 (1971) 17 FLR 141 (‘Milirrpum’). 137 On the failure of the earlier cases to ......
  • ENGLISH STATUTES IN SINGAPORE COURTS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1991, December 1991
    • 1 December 1991
    ...in Hancock (ed.), Survey of British Commonwealth Affairs (1937) at p. 517. 163 (1875) L.R. 6 P.C. 381. 164 Ibid., at p. 393. 165 [1938] A.C. 678 at p. 701. 166 (1774) 1 Cowp. 204; 98 E.R. 1045. 167“A Birthright and Inheritance”(1962) 1 U. Tas. L.R. 635 at p. 636. 168 The island was not of c......

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