Twyford v Manchester Corporation

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1946
Year1946
CourtChancery Division
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11 cases
  • Woolwich Equitable Building Society v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 May 1991
    ...Justice Branson held that the mistake was one of law, and that the company could not recover. That decision was right". 49In Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [1946] Ch. 236 the Corporation sought to charge fees to a monumental mason for permission to work on memorials in the cemetery. The......
  • R v Commissioners of Inland Revenue ex parte Woolwich Equitable Building Society
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 May 1991
    ...Board v British Oxygen Co LtdWLR[1959] 1 WLR 587 Steele v Williams ENR(1853) 8 Ex 625; 155 ER 1052 Twyford v Manchester Corporation ELR[1946] Ch 236 Tyler, re, ELR[1907] 1 KB 865 Universe Tankships Inc of Monrovia v International Transport Workers Federation ELR[1983] 1 AC 366 William White......
  • Ipswich Town Football Club Company Ltd v The Chief Constable of Suffolk Constabulary
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 27 February 2017
    ...a threat which constitutes the compulsion may be expressed or implied (a point perhaps overlooked in Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [1946] Ch 236). (e) I would not think it right, especially bearing in mind the development of the concept of economic duress, to regard the categories of co......
  • Woolwich Equitable Building Society v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 20 July 1992
    ...held that the mistake was a mistake of law, and that the payments were not recoverable. 27The last English case in point is Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [1946] Ch. 236, a decision by Romer J. The corporation owned a cemetary and it charged the plaintiff, a monumental mason, fees for p......
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