Yew Bon Tew v Kenderaan Bas Mara
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1982 |
| Date | 1982 |
| Year | 1982 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd
...165 In her written skeleton argument, Ms Parkin relied, amongst others, on the decision of the Privy Council in Yew Bon Tew v Kenderaan Bass Mara [1983] 1 A.C. 553. There, the Judicial Committee concluded that, where a defendant had acquired an entitlement to plead a time-bar, that entitlem......
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Attorney General Appellant v The Barbuda Council Respondent [ECSC]
...in relation to section 5[3] was that its terms should not be held to be retrospective, relying onthe cases Yew Bon Tew v Kenderan Bas Mara [1983] AC 553 [1983] AC 553 per Lord Brightman at 558F and Pearce v Secretary of State for Defence [1988] 1 AC 755. Nothing in the case turns on that is......
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Warefact Ltd (and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) Respondent/Appellant v Voice Buildings Ltd Michael Gordon Lyndell Gordon (and the Sheriff of the High Court of Justice, St. Lucia) Petitioners/Respondents [ECSC]
...v. LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD (1936) 3 All E.R. 83 particularly the judgment of Lord Wright M.R. at pages 87 and 88, and YEW BON TEW v. KENDERAAN BAS MARA (1982) 3 All E.R. 833 at page 839. 13 Relying upon the definition of the term "cause of action" as it appears in Volume 37 of the ......
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Pearce v Secretary of State for Defence
...construed so as to impose new liabilities in respect of past events or to relieve persons from liabilities already existing. In Yew Bon Tew v Kenderaan Bas Mara (1983) A.C. 553 Lord Brightman put the matter as follows at page 558: 117 "…there is at common law a prima facie rule of construct......
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CIPAA: Forward Or Backward?
...of Malaysia in various cases, such as Lee Chow Meng v Public Prosecutor [1978] 2 MLJ 36; Yew Boon Tew & Anor v Kenderaan Bas Mara [1983] 1 MLJ 1; Sim Seoh Beng @ Sim Sai Beng & Anor v Koperasi Tunas Muda Sungai Ara Berhad [1995] 1 MLJ 292, and concluded " ... the construction and in......
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Table of cases
...509........................................................................................... 443 Yew Bon Tew v. Kanderaan Bas Mara, [1983] 1 A.C. 553 (P.C.) ........................ 229 Yordanes v. Bank of Nova Scotia (2006), 78 O.R. (3d) 590, 23 C.P.C. (6th) 7, [2006] O.J. No. 280 (S.C.J......
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OF RETROSPECTIVE CRIMINAL LAWS AND PROSPECTIVE OVERRULING: REVISITING PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v TAN MENG KHIN & 24 ORS
...construction which arises for the first time. A recent illustration can be found in the case of Plewa v Chief Adjudication Officer[1983] 1 AC 553 (Privy Council on appeal from Malaysia), where the Privy Council “overruled” the decision of Secretary of State for Social Security v Tunniciffe[......
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Substance and Procedure
...periods as procedural, see Garnett, above note 1 at 262-63. [1994] 3 SCR 1022 [Tolo/son], See Yew Bon Tew v Kanderaan Bas Mara, [1983] 1 AC 553 at 563 (PC); Martin v Perrie, [1986] 1 SCR The decision in Tolo/son has itself subsequently fostered this view: see Aucoin v Murray, 2013 NSSC 37. ......
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Substance and Procedure
...Limitation Periods Act, 1984 (U.K.), 1984, c. 16. 15 [1994] 3 S.C.R. 1022 [ Tolofson ]. 16 See Yew Bon Tew v. Kanderaan Bas Mara , [1983] 1 A.C. 553 at 563 (P.C.); Martin v. Perrie , [1986] 1 S.C.R. 41. CONFLICT OF LAWS 230 Supreme Court of Canada releases its decision in Tolofson . Limitat......