Burmah Oil Company Limited (Burma Trading) v Lord Advocate: IHCS 1963

The 1965 Act was to be construed restrictively, lest ‘what was intended as a reasonable protection for a public authority would become an engine of oppression.’

Judges:

Lord President Clyde

Citations:

1963 SC 410

Statutes:

War Damage Act 1965

Jurisdiction:

Scotland

Cited by:

Appeal fromBurmah Oil Company (Burma Trading) Limited v Lord Advocate HL 21-Apr-1964
The General Officer Commanding during the war of 1939 to 1945 ordered the appellants oil installations near Rangoon to be destroyed. The Japanese were advancing and the Government wished to deny them the resources. It was done on the day before the . .
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Constitutional

Updated: 01 May 2022; Ref: scu.241354