# Lord Sankey's JCPC judgments

This is a list of Lord Sankey's decisions from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Sankey served as the Lord Chancellor from 7 June 1929 – 7 June 1935. Prior to his appointment to the JCPC, Sankey served as Lord Justice of Appeal in 1928 and High Court, King's Bench Division, in 1914.

## 1928-1929

| Year | Case Name | Citation | Author of Judgment | Lord Chancellor |
| 1929 | The Eric Beach Company Limited v The Attorney General of Ontario | [1929] UKPC 100 | Merrivale | Sankey |
| 1929 | The Royal Trust Company v The Attorney General of Alberta | [1929] UKPC 93 | Merrivale | Sankey |
| 1929 | Chung Chuck and others v Rex and others | [1929] UKPC 113 | Sankey | Sankey |
| 1929 | Dorothy Valentine Burnard v William Douglas Lysnar | [1929] UKPC 59 | Blanesburgh | Sankey |
| 1929 | The Attorney General of Canada v The Attorney General of British Columbia and others | [1929] UKPC 80 | Tomlin | Sankey |
| 1929 | The Dominion Building Corporation Limited v The King | [1929] UKPC 82 | Thankerton | Sankey |
| 1929 | Daniel Eugene Lecavalier v The City of Montreal | [1929] UKPC 84 | Warrington of Clyffe | Sankey |
| 1929 | The Corporation of the City of St. Catherines v The Hydo-Electric Power Commission of Ontario | [1929] UKPC 85 | Tomlin | Sankey |
| 1929 | Henrietta Muir Edwards and others v The Attorney-General of Canada and others | [1929] UKPC 86 | Sankey | Sankey |
| 1928 | Edgar Sammut and another v Stickland | [1938] UKPC 43 | Maugham | Maugham |

## 1930-1931

| Year | Case Name | Citation | Author of Judgment | Lord Chancellor |
| 1930 | Hugh Francis Hoole and others v The Royal Trust Company and another | [1930] UKPC 74 | Sankey | Sankey |
| 1930 | The Commissioner of Taxes (Appeal No. 100 of 1929) v The British Australian Wool Realization Association, Limited (in liquidation) | [1930] UKPC 89 | Blanesburg | Sankey |
| 1930 | The Wanganui Sash and Door Factory and Timber Company (Appeal No. 45 of 1927) v Roland Moore Maunder and another | [1930] UKPC 9 | Russell of Killowen | Sankey |
| 1930 | The Commissioner of Taxes v The Union Trustee Company of Australia, Limited | [1930] UKPC 90 | Blanesburgh | Sankey |
| 1930 | The Shell Company of Australia, Limited v The Federal Commissioner of Taxation | [1930] UKPC 97 | Sankey | Sankey |
| 1931 | S. P. A. Annamalay Chetty v B. A. Thornhill | [1931] UKPC 56 | Thankerton | Sankey |
| 1931 | Chief Tshekedi Khama v Ratshosa and another | [1931] UKPC 72 | Sanderson | Sankey |
| 1931 | The Attorney-General Canada v The Attorney-General of Ontario and others v The Attorney-General Canada | [1931] UKPC 93 | Sankey | Sankey |
| 1930 | Benjamin Knowles (Reasons) v The King | [1930] UKPC 27 | Dunedin | Sankey |
| 1930 | The Performing Right Society, Limited (Appeal No. 27 of 1929) v The Urban District Council of Bray | [1930] UKPC 36 | Sankey | Sankey |
| 1931 | John A. Rice (Appeal No. 114 of 1930) v Frits Ricdolf Christani and another | [1931] UKPC 67 | Tomlin | Sankey |
| 1931 | The Corporation of the County of Lincoln v The Corporation of the Village of Port Dalhousie | [1931] UKPC 76 | MacMillan | Sankey |
| 1930 | James Richardson and Sons, Limited and another v The Ship Robert J. Paisley | [1930] UKPC 5 | Merrivale | Sankey |
| 1930 | The Bank of Montreal v The Dominion Gresham Guarantee and Casualty Company | [1930] UKPC 69 | Tomlin | Sankey |
| 1930 | The Canadian Pacific Railway Company and others v The Toronto Transportation Commission v The Toronto Transportation Commission and others v Canadian National Railways and others | [1930] UKPC 70 | MacMillan | Sankey |
| 1930 | The Toronto Transportation Commission v Canadian National Railways and others | [1930] UKPC 71 | MacMillan | Sankey |

## 1932-1933

| Year | Case Name | Citation | Author of Judgment | Lord Chancellor |
| 1932 | Attorney General for New South Wales v Trethowan | [1932] UKPC 39 | Sankey | Sankey |
| 1932 | Frederick Alexander James v The Honourable John Cowan and others | [1932] UKPC 43 | Atkin | Sankey |
| 1932 | The Attorney-General or New South Wales and others v The Honourable Arthur King Trethowan M.C.L. and others and The Attorney-General or England and another | [1932] UKPC 1 | Sankey | Sankey |
| 1932 | Eric George Benson v Kwong Chong | [1932] UKPC 40 | Blanesburgh | Sankey |
| 1933 | The Ottawa Electric Railway Company v The Canadian National Railways | [1933] UKPC 33 | Sanderson | Sankey |

## 1934-1935

| Year | Case Name | Citation | Author of Judgment | Lord Chancellor |
| 1934 | Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Limited v Wm. H. Price, Limited | [1934] UKPC 24 | Wright | Sankey |
| 1934 | The Pearl Assurance Company, Limited v The Government of the Union of South Africa | [1934] UKPC 43 | Tomlin | Sankey |
| 1934 | In the matter of a Reference under the Judicial Committee Act, 1833, in the matter of Piracy jure gentium v JCPC | [1934] UKPC 54 | Sankey | Sankey |
| 1935 | British Coal Corporation and others (Petition) v The King | [1935] UKPC 33 | Sankey | Sankey |
| 1935 | Robert Lyon Moore and others (Petition) v The Attorney General for the Irish Free State and others | [1935] UKPC 34 | Sankey | Sankey |
| 1934 | The United Gas and Fuel Company of Hamilton, Limited and another v The Dominion natural Gas Company, Limited | [1934] UKPC 22 | MacMillan | Sankey |

## 1936-1937

| Year | Case Name | Citation | Author of Judgment | Lord Chancellor |
| 1937 | Leonard (St. Eastcheap - Special Reference in the Benefice (Reasons) v JCPC | [1937] UKPC 17 | Sankey | ?? |
| 1937 | Captain W. F. Wake-Walker O.B.E. R.N. v Steamer Colin W. Limited and others | [1937] UKPC 49 | Sankey | ?? |
| 1937 | International Railway Company v The Nigara Parks Commission | [1937] UKPC 50 | MacMillan | ?? |

## 1938-1939

| Year | Case Name | Citation | Author of Judgment | Lord Chancellor |
| 1939 | The Apostolic Thorne of St. Jacob (His Beatitude the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem) v Saba Eff Said | 1939 UKPC 80 | Sankey | ?? |
| 1939 | Seyyado Ibrahim Saibo and others v Jainambeebee | [1939] UKPC 81 | MacDonell | ?? |

## 1940-1941

| Year | Case Name | Citation | Author of Judgment | Lord Chancellor |
| 1940 | Holford Stewart v George Alfred Francis Hancock | [1940] UKPC 18 | Roche | Caldecote |
| 1941 | Olga Hall v Kingston and Saint Andrew Corporation | [1941] UKPC 1 | Luxmoore | ?? |
| 1941 | Michel Habib Raji Ayoub and others v Sheikh Suleiman El Taji Ei Farouqi | [1941] UKPC 2 | Atkin | ?? |
| 1940 | The Honourable John E. Brownlee v Vivian MacMillan | [1940] UKPC 36 | Thankerton | Caldecote |
| 1940 | The Board of Trustees of the Lethbridge Irrigation District and another v The independent Order of Foresters and the Attorney-General of Canada and another and v The King v The Independent Order of Foresters and the Attorney-General of Canada and another (Consolidated Appeals) | [1940] UKPC 8 | Caldecote | Caldecote |
| 1940 | Gywn A. True v Amalgamated Collieries of W.A. Limited | [1940] UKPC 17 | Russell of Killowen | Caldecote |
| 1940 | George Richard Nicholas v The Commissioner of Taxes of the State of Victoria | [1940] UKPC 19 | Thankerton | Caldecote |
| 1941 | Union of Benefices Measures 1923 to 1936 v The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England | [1941] UKPC 12 | Sankey | Caldecote |

## 1942-1943

| Year | Case Name | Citation | Author of Judgment | Lord Chancellor |
| 1943 | Atlantic Smoke Shops Limited v James H. Conlon and others, The Attorney General of Canada and others | [1943] UKPC 44 | Simon | Simon |