Example sentences of "held that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irish courts have held that a child which was born deformed in consequence of an injury to its mother , caused by the fault of a railway company on whose line she was travelling , could not recover damages ; but the decision turned on the view that the company , not having means of knowledge of its presence , owed no duty towards it . |
| 2 | Previous decisions had held that a mistake must be based on reasonable grounds if it is to excuse , a doctrine which is illogical for the reason given by Lord Hailsham . |
| 3 | In the early 1940s and 1950s , the belief was widely held that a combination of government intervention — in the form of town planning , housing and health programmes , and the provision of social security — and permanent male full employment , together with an increase in real wages , would reduce suffering due to poverty to manageable proportions . |
| 4 | Malaysian Mining Corporation Berhad , effectively held that a comfort letter which does not expressly and precisely state that it has no contractual force will have such force , if its terms are sufficiently precise to be capable of interpretation . |
| 5 | However , the European Court has held that a trade association which was established outside the Community and had no part in implementing a price agreement which infringed Article 85 was not subject to the EC competition rules . |
| 6 | The Commission has recently held that a joint organ of the state-owned electricity generators in the Netherlands , although within the exemption , was still subject to the competition rules . |
| 7 | It has been held that a gift to a charity of shares in a close company gave rise to a charge to capital transfer tax where the company had an interest in possession in a trust ( p 106 ) . |
| 8 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a woman who is entitled to return to work , but is made redundant while still on maternity leave , is to be regarded as unfairly dismissed if the employer does not offer a suitable alternative vacancy or prove that no such vacancy exists . |
| 9 | It has been held that a signal which was given with a lamp at night and which the driver failed to understand was not sufficient for failing to stop . |
| 10 | In Keen v Parker [ 1976 ] RTR 213 it was held that a sidecar designed for the carriage of goods was just as much a sidecar as one which carried passengers . |
| 11 | It has been held that a person on foot pushing a bicycle when using a zebra pedestrian crossing was a ‘ foot passenger ’ . |
| 12 | Such private bodies ( some of which are sometimes called ‘ domestic tribunals ’ ) may derive their powers from a contract : in one case , for example , it was held that a trade union had to comply with the ( public law ) rules of natural justice in deciding whether the dismiss a union official . |
| 13 | In that case it was held that a journalist lacked standing for an order ( of mandamus ) that the chair of the justices should reveal the names of the magistrates who had heard a particular case , but that he did have standing for a declaration that a policy of not disclosing the names of justices who heard certain types of cases was contrary to the public interest and unlawful . |
| 14 | It has also been held that a taxpayer would have standing to challenge the legality of an Order in Council authorizing the payment of public money to the European Community ; and that a television licence-holder has standing in respect of alleged breach by the IBA ( the predecessor of the Independent Television Commission ) of its responsibility to monitor programmes . |
| 15 | So it has been held that a provision in a statute that regulations made under the statute will take effect as if enacted in the statute ( that is , they will be unchallengeable as if they were made by Parliament ) does not prevent the courts holding the regulation to be ultra vires . |
| 16 | And in Ansiminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission it was held that a statutory provision that decisions of the Commission were not to be ‘ called in question in any court of law ’ was ineffective to exclude the quashing of a decision vitiated by jurisdictional error of law : its only effect was to prevent a decision being quashed for non-jurisdictional error of law . |
| 17 | held that a general charge on the undertaking of a company applied to all its ships , whether or not in existence at the time of its creation . |
| 18 | In Harrison v. Duke of Rutland ( H.C. , 1893 ) it was held that a person who used the highway other than for passage could be sued for trespass . |
| 19 | It was held that a manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 20 | Ltd [ 1985 ] AC 210 , it was held that a property developer , as opposed to a building owner , was not owed a duty of care by a local authority . |
| 21 | It was held that a one-off purchase , and sale three months later , of land that gave rise to a profit was not trade assessable for Schedule D income tax . |
| 22 | the presentation of a winding up petition — it has , however , been held that a winding up petition can not be advertised during this period ; |
| 23 | In the United States of America it has long been held that a municipal authority can not sue in the tort of libel . |
| 24 | Under a similar provision in the Bankruptcy Act 1914 it had been held that a defect in a bankruptcy notice of a kind such as could reasonably mislead the debtor was not a mere formal defect or irregularity within the meaning of that provision , and therefore rendered the notice a nullity even though it was not calculated to cause substantial injustice . |
| 25 | The grounds of the cross-appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had correctly held that a mortgagee 's right to costs , charges and expenses whether founded on equitable principles or an implied contract could always be varied , restricted or enlarged by the express terms of the mortgage and that the first defendant was entitled a full indemnity against the costs , charges and expenses on a true construction of the words used in the mortgage deeds other than the guarantee and mortgage debenture dated 6 June 1986 . |
| 26 | In Reg. v. Miles ( 1890 ) 24 Q.B.D. 423 it was held that a person who had been convicted of an assault by a court of summary jurisdiction , but had been discharged , without any sentence of fine or imprisonment , on giving security to be of good behaviour , could not afterwards be convicted on an indictment for the same assault . |
| 27 | 612 where it was held that a defendant had been validly committed for trial by justices notwithstanding that they had previously embarked on a summary trial but decided before the summary trial was concluded that in the circumstances they should not deal with the case and should commit the defendant for trial . |
| 28 | It has been held that a justice who has originated an objection in the lower court is not , on that account alone , disqualified from taking part in the proceedings of the confirmation court or court of appeal : R. v. Leicester ) J. 11927 ] 1 K.B . |
| 29 | It has also been held that a wholesale sale does not become a retail sale because the goods are delivered over a period in retail quantities : Hales v. Buckley [ 1911 ] W.N. 32 . |
| 30 | In N.D. Wines ( Inverness ) Ltd. v. Inverness District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 73 , it was held that a request for written reasons for the board 's decision required to be in the hands of the clerk within the specified 48 hour period , and that the time limit is mandatory . |