Simpson v Attorney General

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Year1904
CourtHouse of Lords
Date1904
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  • Walker v Leonach
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • February 8, 2012
    ...v Brockman [1914] AC 338; Mills v Silver [1991] Ch 271; Bruen v Murphy (Unrep, McWilliam J, 11/3/1980); Simpson v Attorney General [1904] AC 476; Attorney General v Antrobus [1905] 2 Ch 188; Williams-Ellis v Cobb [1935] 1 KB 310; Boswell v Rathmines and Pembroke Joint Hospital Board [1904] ......
  • Edward Walsh and Another v County Council for County of Sligo
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • November 11, 2013
    ...335; R (Beresford) v Sunderland City Council [2003] UKHL 60, [2004] 1 AC 889; Blount v Layard [1891] 2 Ch 681; Simpson v Attorney General [1904] AC 476; Attorney General v Antrobus [1904] 2 Ch 188; Cumbernuald and Kilsyth District Council v Dollar Land (Cumbernauld) Ltd [1992] SC 357; Wild ......
  • Rowland v Environment Agency
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • December 19, 2002
    ...every part of the River Thames. 50 At common law PRN cannot be lost by disuse (see Wills Trustees above). As Lord Lindley said in Simpson v. Attorney General [1904] AC 476 at 510: "the doctrine once a highway always a highway is, I believe, applicable to rivers as to roads". Likewise PRN co......
  • Attorney General, ex rel Yorkshire Derwent Trust Ltd and Another v Brotherton and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • December 5, 1991
    ...is not a perfect one (see, for instance, A.-G. v. Simpson [1901] 2 Ch. 671 [1901] 2 Ch. 671, 687 ( per Farwell J.) and Simpson v. A.-G. [1904] A.C. 476 [1904] A.C. 476, 509 ( per Lord Lindley)) and there are obvious differences between a highway on land and a waterway. Thus a public right o......
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  • Telecommunications carriers and the 'duty to serve'.
    • Canada
    • McGill Law Journal Vol. 57 No. 3, March 2012
    • March 1, 2012
    ...180 (PC) [Levis] rev'g (sub nom Doherty es qual c Levis (La Cite de)) (1916), 51 CS 267 [Doherty]. (33) Levis, supra note 32 at 513. (34) [1904] AC 476, 20 TLR 761 (35) Ibid at 482-83. (36) Allnutt, supra note 13 at 538. (37) Levis, supra note 32 at 512. (38) Ibid at 513. See also Hoddesdon......

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