Winans and Another v Attorney-General (on Behalf of HM)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 07 December 1909 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1909] UKHL J1207-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 07 December 1909 |
[1909] UKHL J1207-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel, as well on Thursday the 11th, as Friday the 12th, and Monday the 15th days of November last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Walter Winans, now residing at Surrenden Dering, in the County of Kent, and of Louis William Winans, now residing at 5 Grand Avenue, Hove, in the County of Sussex, praying, That the matter of the Orders set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 17th of March 1908, and also an Order of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, of the 16th of July 1907, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament, and that the said Orders might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of His Majesty's Attorney-General (on behalf of His Majesty), lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Court of Parliament of His Majesty the King assembled, That the said Orders, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same are hereby, Affirmed, and that the said Petition and Appeal be, and the same is hereby, dismissed this...
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