Williams v Phillips
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1957 |
| Court | Divisional Court |
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6 cases
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Vestwin Trading Pte Ltd and Another v Obegi Melissa and Others
...amount to an abandonment of property in the rubbish. This precise question was considered in the English case of Williams v Phillips (1957) 41 Cr App Rep 5. In that case, dustmen had removed for their own benefit certain commercially valuable items which they found in the rubbish they had c......
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Holland v Geoghegan
...701Laidler v. Perry TAXELR42 T.C. 351; [1966] A.C. 16National Coal Board v. Galley WLR[1958] 1 W.L.R. 16Williams v. Phillips UNKUNK(1957) 41 Cr. App. R. 5; 121 J.P. 163 11. The Inspector of Taxes immediately after the determination of the appeal declared to us his dissatisfaction therewith ......
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R (Rickets) v Basildon Magistrates' Court
...refer to three decisions upon which Mr Field relied in support of the application for judicial review. They are the cases of Williams and Others v Phillips (1957) 41 Crim.App.R 5, R v Rostron and Collinson [2003] EWCA Crim 2206 and the old case of William White 7 CR App R 266 CCA. None of t......
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Obegi Melissa and Others v Vestwin Trading Pte Ltd and Another
...intent of desertion and relinquishment casts away or leaves behind his property … Citing (at [24] of the GD) Williams v Phillips (1957) 41 Cr App Rep 5, the Judge also stated (at [27]–[29] of the GD) 27 Putting rubbish out for collection by refuse collection personnel is not an abandonment ......
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6 books & journal articles
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Abandonment, copyright and orphaned works: what does it mean to take the proprietary nature of intellectual property rights seriously?
...on the street intended to make a gift to the local council. In that regard, we would question the analysis in Williams v Phillips (1957) 41 Cr App R 5, in which it was held that refuse workers who" took items during rubbish collections were guilty of theft on the basis that the material alw......
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Tort Law
...that Andrew Ang J had adopted applicable principles from the cases of Simpson v Gowers(1981) 121 DLR (3d) and Williams v Phillips(1957) 41 Cr App Rep 5. However, the court deferred from the High Court”s approach, declaring that ‘the law on abandonment has not been settled in Singapore’: Obe......
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THE LAW OF ABANDONMENT AND THE PASSING OF PROPERTY IN TRASH
...at p 79. 71 Cf also the judicial sentiments expressed in North America, Australia and New Zealand on this matter, discussed above. 72 (1957) 41 Cr App Rep 5. 73 There are, of course, more recent examples. In December 1992, a private detective was fined ¢150 for taking a newspaper executive‘......
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Taking possession: the defining element of theft?
...see Ferris, above n 89, 179. (109) (1848) 1 Den 387; 169 ER 293. (110) See, eg, R v Reed (1854) Cox CC 284; Williams v Phillips (1957) 41 Cr App R 5, 9 (Lord Goddard C (111) 'The problem is that except in the very early stages of the common law, possession has sometimes been more and someti......
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