Tuck v Priester

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1887
Date1887
Year1887
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • Savage Supermarket Ltd & Becton v Bord Pleanála and Others
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 22 de novembro de 2011
    ...of liability from being created unfairly by the use of oblique or slack language: see Lord Esher M.R. in Tuck & Sons v. Priester [ (1887) 19 Q.B.D. 629] (at p. 638); Lord Reid in Director of Public Prosecutions v. Ottewell [ [1970] A.C. 642] (at p. 649) and Lord Denning M.R. in Farrell v. A......
  • Thompson v Dublin Bus
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 5 de março de 2015
    ...AC 278 and a dictum of Lord Simonds at 313. Lord Simonds cited first the well-known passage of Lord Esher in Tuck & Sons v. Priester (1887) 19 Q.B.D. 629 at 638 in the following terms: – “We must be very careful in construing that section, because it imposes a penalty. If there is a reasona......
  • People (Attorney General) v Kennedy
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 21 de dezembro de 1946
    ...(4) [1940] I. R. 136. (5) [1923] A. C. 603. (6) 15 A. C. 506, at pp. 519, 520. (7) [1912] A. C. 305, at p. 310. (8) 7 Q. B. D. 198. (9) 19 Q. B. D. 629, at p. 638. (10) [1895] 2 Q. B. 264, at p. 271. (1) 2 C. & P. 585, at p. 589. (2) 20 Beav. 269. (3) 3 E. & B. 942. (4) [1895] 2 I. R. 603. ......
  • DPP v Doherty (1), DPP v Doherty (2), DPP v Doherty (3)
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 24 de julho de 2020
    ...of liability from being created unfairly by the use of oblique or slack language: see Lord Esher M.R. in Tuck & Sons v. Priester (1887) 19 Q.B.D. 629 (at p. 638); Lord Reid in Director of Public Prosecutions v. Ottewell [1970] A.C. 642 (at p. 649) and Lord Denning M.R. in Farrell v. Alexan......
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  • Preliminary Sections
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1985. Part I Preliminary Sections
    • 22 de novembro de 2022
    ...Nwako & Anor. (1978) 5 S.C. 1. 165 Toun Adeyemi v. Theophilus Awobokun (1968) 2 All N.L.R.318 ......149 Tuck & Sons v. Priester (1887) 19 Q.B.D. 629. 195 Tumahole's case (1949) A.C. 253. 16 U.S. v. Schwimmer 73 L.Ed. 889. ........ 16 UAC v. Owoade 13 W.A.C.A. 207 at 211. 313 Uccello v. Gold......
  • REQUIREMENT OF FAULT IN STRICT LIABILITY
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1999, December 1999
    • 1 de dezembro de 1999
    ...the purpose of the statute, s 9A Interpretation Act (Cap 1,1985 Rev Ed), and which is in favour of the defendant, Tuck & Sons v Priester(1887) 19 QBD 629; Teng Lang Khin v PP[1995] 1 SLR 372. 10 The concept of negligence best fulfils the policy of imposing liability in circumstances only wh......
  • DRINK DRIVING LAW: A WRONG TURNING IN THE ROAD TRAFFIC ACT?
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1994, December 1994
    • 1 de dezembro de 1994
    ...Statutory Interpretation (1992), section 271 (“Principle against penalisation under a doubtful law”). Also see Tuck & Sons v Priester(1887) 19 QBD 629, 638, 645; Lee Lai Siew v PP[1978] 1 MLJ 259; PP v Rajappan[1986] 1 MLJ 152. 44 Introduced by Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 1990 (No 7 of 199......
  • Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005: Statutory Interpretation
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 70-2, April 2006
    • 1 de abril de 2006
    ...the case with regard to penal statutes. A classicstatement of this position was provided by Lord Esher in Tuck & Sons vPriester (1887) 19 QBD 629:The Journal of Criminal If there is a reasonable interpretation which will avoid the penalty in anyparticular case, we must adopt that constructi......

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