House of Lords judgments, 1955

2 judgments, newest first. Open any case for its summary, the legal points it decides and how later courts have treated it.

Date Case Cited by
12 Dec 1955
Glasgow Corporation v Central Land Board
[1955] UKHL 7
Under Scots law, a valid ministerial objection that disclosure of Crown documents would injure the public interest does not conclusively prevent the Court of…
4 Mar 1955
Ross v Martin
[1955] UKHL 6
Where persons die in a common calamity, Scots law raises no presumption about the order of death. A claimant whose testamentary entitlement depends upon one…