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1 The Inner House of the Scottish Court of Sessions has held that the Prescription and Limitations ( Scotland ) Act 1973 ( the Act ) did not exclude the Crown 's claim to interest on overdue tax that related to a period more than five years before the Crown had acted to recover the tax and interest thereon ( see Lord Advocate v Butt and others [ 1992 ] STI 169 ) .
2 NB Case law has held that the following were not public places — a public house car park outside licensing hours , and land open only to members of a proprietary club .
3 The Privy Council has held that the profits of a Hong Kong company that granted fixed fee sub-licences of video films to overseas customers ‘ arose in ’ and ‘ derived from ’ Hong Kong ( p 106 ) .
4 Yet in all save one of the cases decided at first instance , the court has held that the surety covenant does not touch and concern the land …
5 The court has held that the certificates remain final , even though the inspector has been negligent , on the basis that they are no different from experts ' decisions : Alfred C Toepfer v Continental Grain Co [ 1974 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 11 .
6 There Millett J having held that the part of a non-solicitation clause which gave protection to the plaintiff was valid but that the part which sought to give protection to an associated company of the plaintiff was invalid had then to decide whether the invalid part could be severed or whether the whole clause was invalid .
7 Some writers have held that the essential thing about medieval law was that it was discovered , not made ; in so far as it was valid and sound , it was a reflection of divine law ; it partook of the nature of what in more recent times has been called ‘ fundamental law ’ .
8 In the light of Williams v. Roffey , should Mocatta J. have held that the performance of their contract by the yard was a benefit , and therefore consideration , to the owners because it enabled them to perform their very advantageous charter agreement with Shell ( corresponding to the avoidance of the penalty in Williams and the encouragement of the potential defaulters in Anangel ) ?
9 There are also a number of cases where the Commission has held that the banning of meetings and procession for a restricted period because of fears for public safety , such bans being under the democratic laws of a State , were not in contravention of the Convention .
10 A bare majority of the High Court of Australia has held that the burden lies upon the plaintiff to prove lack of such care ; but the contrary arguments of the minority seem more convincing in principle and allow for the grave difficulties facing a plaintiff with the task of proving negligence against the supplier of a public utility such as gas or electricity .
11 The House of Lords having held that the swap transactions were void ab initio , the suggestion that the restitutionary claims in these actions are in matters relating to a contract seems to me to be placing a very severe strain indeed on the language of article 5(1) .
12 The Tribunal had held that the offer , involving as it did such dramatic alterations to employees ' contracts , was not reasonable .
13 Similarly , in order for occupation of land to amount to a tenancy , the courts have held that the claimant must show that he or she had the right to , and did , exclude the landlord .
14 The courts have held that the public is legitimately interested , not merely in the conduct of public officials and institutions , but of private companies whose activities affect individual members of the public .
15 This point is discussed further at p104. 5 Defences 5.1 Iniquity In a long line of cases the courts have held that the disclosure of information relating to what was originally termed iniquity will not be restrained : see Gartside v Outram ( 1856 ) 2 LJ Ch 113 , Weld-Blundell v Stephens [ 1920 ] AC 956 ; Initial Services Ltd v Putterill [ 1968 ] 1 QB 396 ; Fraser v Evans [ 1969 ] 1 QB 349 ; Hubbard v Vosper [ 1972 ] 1 All ER 1023 ; Church of Scientology of California v Kaufman [ 1973 ] RPC 635 ; British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 417 ; and Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans [ 1984 ] 2 All ER 417 .
16 The European Court of Justice has held that the court in the state in which enforcement is sought must examine for itself the requirements of Article 27(2) even if the court granting the judgment had considered similar issues in relation to Article 20154 .
17 In such cases the Court of Justice has held that the requirements of Article 190 are satisfied if the statement of reasons given explains in essence the measures taken by the institutions and that a specific statement of reasons in support of all the details which might be contained in such a measure can not be required , provided such details fall within the general scheme of the measures as a whole .
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