Example sentences of "[prep] lords [adj] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case , the House of Lords concluded that a bank giving information as to the liquidity of one of its own customers to another bank so that the latter could show the information to one of its customers could be liable to that customer , even though the first bank did not know the identity of the second bank 's customer , the ultimate recipient of the information . |
| 2 | B.B.C. the House of Lords decided that a valuation court was not a court of law , the proceedings of which might be protected from outside influence by the law of contempt . |
| 3 | In Helby v Matthews [ 1895 ] AC 471 , the House of Lords decided that a hirer under a hire purchase agreement who was entitled to terminate the hiring agreement at any time , was not a person who had agreed to buy the goods within the meaning of s9 of FA 1889 , so confirming the nemo dat rule ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 4 | In O'Reilly v. Mackman the House of Lords held that a prisoner who was seeking to challenge ( on the ground of breach of natural justice ) a decision of a Board of Prison Visitors which had the effect of depriving him of a remission of sentence , had to use AJR procedure because he had no private law right to a remission but only a legitimate expectation that the remission would be granted if no disciplinary sentence of forfeiture of remission had been made against him . |
| 5 | Recently the House of Lords held that a Mental Health Review Tribunal was also a ‘ court ’ for the purposes of the law of contempt . |
| 6 | In Ridge v. Baldwin the House of Lords held that a chief constable , who had been acquitted on a criminal charge but criticized for lack of leadership by the judge , was entitled , under the common law rules of natural justice , to a hearing before he could be dismissed by the local authority who employed him . |
| 7 | In July 1990 , the House of Lords held that a byelaw prohibiting entry to the Greenham Common military bars was invalid because it infringed rights of common . |
| 8 | In proceedings by C against A for an interlocutory injunction the House of Lords held that a prima facie case had been established that A was liable for procuring breaches by B of the hiring contracts , the unlawful means being the inducement of X to ‘ black ’ the barges . |
| 9 | v. Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants the House of Lords held that a union registered under the Trade Union Act 1871 was enough of a legal entity to be sued in tort . |
| 10 | But , nevertheless , the House of Lords held that a manufacturer who sold food or medicine or the like in containers of a nature that the distributor or ultimate purchasers or consumers could not discover the defect by inspection is under a legal duty to the ultimate purchaser or consumer to take reasonable care that the article is free from defect likely to cause injury to health . |
| 11 | The House of Lords held that a provision in the Betting and Lotteries Act 1934 that required track owners to provide available space for bookmakers on the track , was passed for the benefit of the race-going public rather than bookmakers ( Cutler v Wandsworth Stadium [ 1949 ] AC 398 ) . |
| 12 | Thus , in R v P ( a Father ) [ 1991 ] 3 All ER 337 , HL a criminal case , the House of Lords held that a court was allowed to hear evidence of a father 's sexual abuse of one child to support an allegation of sexual abuse against another . |
| 13 | In other contexts the courts have taken a broad , purposive approach to the interpretation of the 1977 Act ; thus in Smith v Eric S Bush ; Harris v Wyre Forest DC [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 514 the House of Lords held that a disclaimer of liability on a surveyor 's report , which purported to prevent the surveyor owing a duty of care to the recipient of the report , was subject to s2 of the Act and was required to be reasonable . |
| 14 | However , in Smith v South Wales Switchgear Ltd [ 1978 ] 1 WLR 165 the House of Lords held that a clause in a contract for services requiring the contractor to indemnify the employer against " any loss , claim or proceedings whatsoever arising out of or in the course of the execution of the order " did not apply to require an indemnity in respect of injuries caused by the employer 's negligence . |