Stevens v General Steam Navigation Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1903
Year1903
CourtCourt of Appeal
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26 cases
  • Claude Michael Joseph Lavole and Carvida Ltd v District Judge John O'Donnell, Ireland and Attorney General
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 27 July 2007
    ...within the meaning of s. 20. Counsel for the Appellant referred inter alia to Stevens v. General Stein Navigation Company Limited [1903] 1 K.B. 890, R v. Goswami [1969] 1 Q.B. 453 Jones v. Commissioner of Taxes [1942] Tas. S.R, 1 56 and 57 Ville de Montreal v. I.L.G.W.U. Centre Inc . [1974]......
  • R v Secretary of State for Social Security, ex parte Britnell
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 14 March 1991
    ...word "modifying" here used is capable on a proper construction of covering the extension of the scope of an enactment. In Stevens v. General Steam Navigation Co. [1903] 1 K.B. 890 it was held that the word "modification" in section 38(1) of the Interpretation Act 1889 included an addition.......
  • S.G. (Albania) v The Minister for Justice and Equality
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 23 March 2018
    ...of State for Social Security ex p. Britnell [1991] 1 W.L.R. 198, per Lord Keith of Kinkel, and Stevens v. General Steam Navigation Co. [1903] 1 K.B. 890; but those cases do not in fact seem to support his proposition and rather lean very strongly in the other direction. Indeed, Lord Keith......
  • Morrison Sports Limited And Others V. Scottish Power
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 8 December 2009
    ...in respect of any damage or injury which may have been caused by the contravention". As in Stevens v General Steam Navigation Co Ltd [1903] 1 KB 890, the 1988 Regulations were, as a result of the chronologically later wording of section 29(3), properly construed as conferring a private righ......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Interpretation Of Statutes
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon's Laws of Nigeria. Volume 12 Interpretation Of Statutes
    • 3 July 2016
    ...a statute can be achieved by an extension as well as by a narrowing, of that provision. See Stevens v. General Steam Navigation Company (1903) 1 K.B. 890. A close look at Section 212 in its original form and its modified form will reveal that the latter is in fact a narrowing of the former.......

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