Watt (or Thomas) v Thomas
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | Viscount Simon,Lord Thankerton,Lord Macmillan,Lord Simonds,Lord du Parcq |
| Judgment Date | 25 March 1947 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1947] UKHL J0325-2 |
| Docket Number | No. 5. |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 25 March 1947 |
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Scotiabank Jamaica Trust and Merchant Bank Ltd v National Commercial Bank Jamaica Ltd and Another
...Scotia would be ruined if the applicant is made to pay out the sum. 21 In his further submissions Mr Piper referred to cases such as Watt or Thomas v Thomas [1946] AC 484 for the principle that when a question of fact has been tried by a judge without a jury and it is not suggested that he ......
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Chin (Lascelles A.) v Chin (Audrey Ramona)
...been examined and refined in two cases decided by the House of Lords viz Benmax v Austin Motors Co. Ltd. [1955] 1 All ER 326 and Watt (or Thomas) v Thomas [1947] 1 All ER 582; [1947] A.C. 484. The dicta elicited from these cases are that: "An appellate Court, on an appeal from a case trie......
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Debbie Powell v Bulk Liquid Carriers Ltd and Others
...that an appellate court will not lightly disturb findings of fact by the tribunal fixed, at first instance, with that responsibility (see Watt v Thomas [1947] AC 484, 485–486 and Industrial Chemical Co (Jamaica) Ltd v Ellis (1986) 35 WIR 303 ). In the latter case, the headnote accurately st......
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Attorney General Appellant v Kenny D. Anthony Respondent [ECSC]
...as the trial judge to evaluate the Minister's evidence and draw its own inferences. Coghlan v Cumberland [1898] 1 Ch. 704 , Watt (or Thomas) v Thomas [1947] AC 484 applied and Golfview Development Ltd v St. Kitts Development Corporation and Michael Simanic Civ. App. No. 17 of 2004 at par......
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11 books & journal articles
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Preliminary Sections
...S.C. 130. 562 The State v. Ryan (1965) 1 I R 70 ........16 The Two Friends, (1799) 1 C. Rob. Ad. Rep. 280. ......408 Thomas v. Thomas (1947) A.C. 484 at 487-488. ............................................... 473 Thorn v. University of London (1966) 2 Q.B. 237, 242 ........ 47 Thorne R.D.C......
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Litigation
...facts that are undisputed or may be taken as established: see Brett v Rees [2009] WASCA 159 at [63]–[69], per Owen JA. 1363 Watt v homas [1947] AC 484 at 488; Abalos v Australian Postal Commission (1990) 171 CLR 167 at 178; J Jarvis & Sons Ltd v Castle Wharf Developments Ltd [2001] 1 Lloyd’......
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Divorce: Jurisdiction; Judgments; Foreign Divorces; Grounds for Divorce; Bars
...(1983), 30 RFL (3d) 5 (BCSC); B v B , [1970] CS 212 (Que); Summerfelt v Summerfelt (1983), 31 RFL (2d) 240 (Sask QB). 157 Watt v Thomas , [1947] AC 484 at 488 (HL). 158 Goudie v Goudie (1970), 2 RFL 128 (Nfld TD). 159 Ibid . 160 See Peskett v Peskett (1980), 14 RFL (2d) 134 (BCSC); McEvoy v......
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Divorce: Jurisdiction; Judgments; Foreign Divorces; Grounds for Divorce; Bars
...(1983), 30 RFL (3d) 5 (BCSC); B v B, [1970] CS 212 (Que); Summerfelt v Summerfelt (1983), 31 RFL (2d) 240 (Sask QB). 149 Watt v Thomas, [1947] AC 484 at 488 150 Goudie v Goudie (1970), 2 RFL 128 (Nfld SC). 151 Ibid. 152 See Peskett v Peskett (1980), 14 RFL (2d) 134 (BCSC); McEvoy v McEvoy (......
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