A SHIPPING CLAIM
APPEAL UPHELD. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) 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. Mr Justice Avory, of the King’s Bench Division, upheld a claim by Brocklebanks, ship owners, for the return from the Crown of £34,920, which was paid in 1919 to the Shipping Controller, who demanded the payment of 15 per cent, to the Government conditional to permitting Brocklebanks to sell a ship to an Italian firm for £240,000. Mr Justice Avory 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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Southland Times, Issue 19311, 1 August 1924, Page 5
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143A SHIPPING CLAIM Southland Times, Issue 19311, 1 August 1924, Page 5
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