SHIPPING TRANSACTION
GOVERNMENT PERCENTAGE DISALLOWED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 30. The Appeal Court upheld the Crown's appeal against Mr Justice Avery’s decision in the Brocklebanks claim, awarding £34,920. The court held that the petition of right barred by the Indemnity Act of 1920 the claim before the War Compensation Court by lapse of time.—A. and N.Z. Cable. Mr Justice Avery, of the King’s Bench Division, upheld a claim by Brocklobanas, ship owners, for the return from the Grown of £34,920, which was paid in 1919 to the Shipping Controller, who demanded the payment of 15 per cept. to the Government conditional on permitting Brocklebanks to sell a ship to an Italian firm for £240,000. Mr Justice Avery held that the condition was outside the Shipping Controller’s powers. He was levying money for the use of the Crown without Parliament’s sanction.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19239, 1 August 1924, Page 7
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