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..... question of non-governmental corporate bodies was not before the house, it is open to us to take the matter further. it would require very little amendment to lord keith's formulation for us to reflect the recommendations of the faulks committee. thus for the words "which can be seen as having a ..... president of the abdul latif jameel group, an international trading conglomerate based in the kingdom of saudi arabia comprising numerous companies and with interests in cars, shipping, property and distribution of electronic goods. the second respondent is a company incorporated in saudi arabia and is part of the group. the first respondent is ..... whether the publisher has behaved responsibly is necessarily and intimately bound up with the question whether the defence of qualified privilege arises. unless the publisher is acting responsibly privilege cannot arise." 135. my lords i am in respectful and complete agreement with the explanation of reynolds privilege given by the court of appeal .....
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..... paid to its german parent company between 1993 and 1996: in october 1993, february 1995 and january 1996. (no mention of the 1995 and 1996 act payments appeared in the pleadings until an amendment made on 19 august 2002 and there is an issue, to which i shall return later, over whether that latter date should be taken for the ..... the relevant payments of atc. 109. dmg (formerly morgan grenfell group plc) was established in 1971 as a holding company for morgan grenfell and co limited, a long-established merchant bank. dmg was listed on the london stock exchange in 1986. deutsche bank ag ("dbag"), a well-known german bank, had acquired a 5% stake in dmg in 1984 ..... unlawful demands by the first and/or second defendant and/or under a mistake of law and pursuant to the statutory provisions in respect of the dbag dividends" (later amended to both sets of dividends), compensation for loss of use of the monies to be calculated "from the dates of payment until set-off against mainstream corporation tax .....
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..... the appropriate officials and lawyers dealing with home office business. on devolution, when the lord advocate became a member of the scottish executive, the crown suits act was amended to substitute the advocate general as the appropriate person to sue in cases involving the united kingdom government. see section 125 of, and para 2 of schedule ..... the rules of the court of session 1965 (now chapter 58 of the rules of the court of session 1994) was brought into effect by act of sederunt (rules of court amendment no 2) (judicial review) 1985 (si 1985/500), the procedure that was adopted in proceedings of this kind were indistinguishable from that used ..... and the statutory provisions of a general character relating to such proceedings (for example, section 6 of the sheriffs courts (scotland) act 1907 as amended and the law reform (jurisdiction on delict)(scotland) act 1971." 39. as has already been mentioned, among the matters which fall outside the scope of the convention are what it describes .....
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..... of giving information respecting the debtor, his dealings or property and to require him to produce relevant documents, while rule 86 of the bankruptcy rules 1952 as amended authorised the court to order service out of the jurisdiction of any process or order requiring to be so served. the origin of s.25(1) went back ..... proper party to an action properly brought against some other person duly served within the jurisdiction (para. (g)). much later, of course, the latter provision was itself amended to apply whether the action was brought against another person served within or out of the jurisdiction: si 1983/1181. a reading of the supreme court practice 1997 (applicable ..... expressly to enable service out of the jurisdiction of a claim against a non-party for costs under supreme court act 1981 s. 51 (now s. 4 of the courts and legal services act 1990) as interpreted by the house in aiden shipping co. ltd. v interbulk ltd. [1986] ac 965. 14. in these circumstances i find both unpromising .....
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..... the provisions of the crown proceedings act 1947 which at present ensured that the crown could not be subject to orders for specific performance ..... . on that basis the proposed amendment was not pressed to a vote. 8. in those circumstances, the house held that, ..... judges in the extra division had been lord advocate at the time when the scotland act 1998 was passing through your lordships' house in its legislative capacity. during the passage of the bill, the lord advocate resisted a proposed amendment, on the ground that it was unnecessary, because the scottish ministers were protected by .....
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..... hazardous materials". 21. there was originally common ground on the pleadings that ups had entered into a contract for the carriage of the three packages of processors. but, by amendment at the trial, ups pleaded that under their conditions they did not offer, and so had never agreed, to carry these packages, which were accordingly not "goods" ..... unlikely of a range of possibilities all of them unlikely. that was the error the house identified in the approach taken by the judge at first instance in rhesa shipping co sa v. edmunds (the "popi m") [1985] 1 wlr 948. the reasoning of sedley lj in the present case may be open to criticism both ..... legal issue of general interest relating to the convention on the contract for the international carriage of goods by road ("cmr"), scheduled to the carriage of goods by road act 1965 and, secondly, a factual issue on which the courts below have differed. the appellants, united parcels service limited ("ups"), perform a parcels delivery service on a .....
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