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EVACUATION TEST CASE: TEXT OF JUDGMENT
(Continued from Page 7.) ·
words in the statule taking away the right of the King's subject of access to the Courts of Justice would nuthorise or justify it.
think the Court is entitled to question for costs, but, following McCardie J. the discretion at the Executive to in Shufler v. Kolie, (Ü20) 38 TLR. whom Parliament hom entrusted 328, 1 desire to say that in view of powers in such wide terms."
the great public importance of these
To that question, giving the words proceedings, their importance both to of the Regulations their plain and the subject and to the State, I think Sweeping Powers
ordinary meaning, and hoving due that the Crown ought not to enforce Sankey J. sald: It is true that the regard to the term of the affidavit of the costs. power to make a regulation to pre- Mr N. L. Smith, there can in vent the successful prosecution of judgment be only one answer. the war being endangered is of Defence (Entry Restrictions) Regula wide and sweeping character, but Itions, 1040, are in my opinion not
my The
Prelude To Diet
decline to hold that Parliament in- ultra vires and this nelion therefore Is Promise To Obey
In view of the conclusion to which have come I must make an
FROM PAGE ONE
national defence State for which purpose the increased production of order necessary materials should never be neglected even for a day, promptly carrying out undertakings superseding trivialities," "and" tightening" the "war- time structure for surmounting the
tended by these general words to give falls. There must be judgment for to the Executive the right to close the defendants, and the interim in-
of the King's Courts against his Junction granted by me Any
un 13th aubjects unless they obtained the December and extended tti 3th Fonction o! Minister to resort thereto, I should be slow to hold that January until the trial of the netion
in discharged. Parliament ever conferred such a power unless it expressed it in the clearest possible language. retsel should never hold that it was given Indirectly by ambiguous regulations made in pursuance of any Act.
Chester v. Bateson was decided Ind 1020, three years after the House of
Rex. Lords had adjudlented in Halliday. That decision was binding on the Divisional Court in 1920 and Chester v. Bateson was decidyl solely on the loop-hole left by Lord
case,
V.
More Prizes For
Bomber Fund Raffle impending emergency.
which
The manifesto expects all Diet members to conduct cautious dc- Ilberations to full the duty of assist- FROM PAGE ONE
the Imperial administration. It ing forswears my arguments tending to Atkinson in his speech in Halliday's Effort Committee, from the Hon. Mr
Chairman of the Hongkong War "prejudice the current altuation."
Concluding, the manifesto declares, "The Stanley 11. Dodwell:
resources of the Empire are Common Law Rights
sumclent to I have just received the Hongkong Well
any Burnount In a later case tried in the same War Effort Committee's request that cult situation provided that the year, Newennile Breweries Lid we donate a prize for the raffe military, oficial and civilian, peoples The King (1920) 1 K.B. 854, IL was
ore truly solicitous over the fate of held that a regulatioit which pur in alt your Committee in organising the nation and meet the situation In
unity feill
and harmony." ported to deprive persons whose
My Company will be pleased to Matsuoka Sece Emperor Hoods were requisitioned by donate naval or military authorities of the been happy
Frigidaires
and would have presen! you with
Jan. TOKYO.
20 (Reuter). right to the fair market value and something of much greater vatue Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka to a judicial decision of the amount, were it not for the fact that we are was received in nudlence by the Em- was ultra vires. Salier J. In the course of his judgment sold: "ome company registered in Eng-peror when he submitted a draft of his Diet speech reviewing Japan's Chester Ba
Bateson it
diplomatie policy. The scheduled that regulation 2 (a) (2) of these eldentally, also, our staff and share- day has been cancelled as all ques- extraordinary cabinet ression for to- Regulations is invalid. The judgholders are
a Spitfire to presenting
tions were sellled at the extraordin- British Governinent.
ary five hour meeting last night. this
the
decifion wns
of the Bomber Fund.
and subject to lome Income.
Taxes: and Excess Profits
In-
ment in that ease are,
In substance, the applicable here. That Regulation doubt if it is realised in deprived a class of subjects, in cer- Colony how great is the difference PRAYERS FOR QUEZON toin circumstances, of the common between the Iome and law right of necess to a particular taxation.
ineal Court given in express terms by
recent statute."
on
our venture guess, based
Company's experience,
on my dad another large company
that we
That decision was not else Head Office in Englund, will pay in prominent Moro leaders prayed for
appeal but it was severely
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Manila, Jan. 20. The Manila Herald reported from operating in the Colony, with its Jolo that Mahommedan priests and by Greer J. In his Judgment
of President Quezon. Home taxation for Inst year as much, the recovery
think
was if not more than the entire present They also invoked the aid of Allah the plaintiff's Counach was
to grant President Quezon a longer quite right in regarding the decision total of the Bomber Fund.
I think we are all agreed that it life. In the Newcastle Breweries Case is just us vital for the future of this President Quezon, who has been ill strongly in their favour. It is, how Colony that we win the war as it is for the last few weeks, is recovering.
recent decision of Jue for the future of Great Britain.
I The rite is considered unique, since
ever,
DEATI!
of co-ordinate jurisdiction and is as therefore suggest for the considera-for the first time the Moros have I understand, under appeal. If and
farsit involves the proposition ion of your Committee that, in addi- prayed to Alloh for the recovery, of that the King in Council has not on to
to the organisation partnerships,
of this raffle, Christian-United Press. power to issue regulations which you appeal to our will enable the country to acquire companies, and corporations, to cele Its necessary stores at less than cut-brate the Colony's centenary by rent market prices, I regret that In
donations
the Bomber Fund of the And it impossible to agree with the titerence
difference between their local taxa- decision."
tion assessment and that which Home companies have to pay. The Blomber Fund would then soon mount up to $10,000,000 instead of, in my opinion, the modest sum at which it now
Peculiar Facts Chester v. Bateson is cited with approval in Fowle v. Monsell, 1021 90 J.K.B. 105...
but it is clear from the Judgments in that case tha the decision in Chester's case was held to be justified only by the ex- treme and peculiar facts of the case.
is referred to also in Rex. V1 Governor of Wormwood Scrubbs Prison: ex parte Foy (1920) 04 J.P. 94, n case of the internment of British subject without trial after the urmistice but before the date of the oficial termination of the war. There Avery J. said: "I wish only to add that Chester v. Bateson is an illus tration of the way in which this Cout Jealously guards its thority to interfere per and au- which the Executive has exceeded the powers conferred on it by stalute. To make the decision In that case analogous to the present, it would have to be said that the regulation which is now in question forbade uny person to apply to this court for a writ of habeas corpus, whereas does nothing of the kind,
in any
Reasonableness At Issue
In
stands,
10
FERREIRA: Sylvia Ferreira, wife of A. F. Ferreira passed away at 4 p.m., January 20, 1941, at Queen Mary Hospital, aged 42. Cortege leaves Anderson's Funeral Par- Inur.at mont
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One of the R.A.F. Aighter pilots who brought down a Dornier over Suffolk Is only" 41 3in, high-the smallest pilot. In the Air Force. When he landed close to the Dornier, SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 20 (Reu-people hurrying to congratulate him ter)-Two United States Navy sea-hatted in surprise. After learning mch were convicted to-day of that the four members of the Dor- "malicious mischier by cutting down nier's crew had been taken prisoner:
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