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The Lord Hunter Harris Tweed case in Edinburgh High Court was between Argyll-shire Weavers and others v A. Macaulay (Tweeds) Ltd. and others. It was the longest court case in Scottish legal history [25] and Lord Hunter finally found against the Shield group. Lord Hunter's opinion was that, a tweed to be legitimately described and marketed as ...
Crofter Hand Woven Harris Tweed Co Ltd v Veitch [1941] UKHL 2 is a landmark UK labour law case on the right to take part in collective bargaining. However, the actual decision which appears to allow secondary action may have been limited by developments from the 1980s.
In 1964 he ruled in the Harris tweed case that this name could only be used for fabric wholly made on the Isle of Harris. [4]In 1966 he expressed deep concern that a murderer might serve a lesser sentence than one convicted of culpable homicide due to the workings of the Scottish legal system, when he observed that the accused found guilty of accidentally killing his two sisters would serve a ...
The original name of tweed fabric was "tweel", the Scots word for twill, as the fabric was woven in a twill weave rather than a plain (or tabby) weave.A number of theories exist as to how and why "tweel" became corrupted into "tweed"; in one, a London merchant in the 1830s, upon receiving a letter from a Hawick firm inquiring after "tweels", misinterpreted the spelling as a trade name taken ...
Recognising the sales potential of the fabric, she had the Murray family tartan copied in tweed by the local weavers and suits were later made for the Dunmore estate. Proving a success, Lady Dunmore sought to widen the market by removing the irregularities, caused by dyeing , spinning and weaving (all done by hand), in the cloth to bring it in ...
Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file ... JT Stratford & Son v Lindley [1964] 2 WLR 1002 (Court of Appeal ... AC 269 is a UK labour law case that concerns ...
The Court’s review is bounded by the facts submitted for examination in the case. This being so, the Court considers that the negative assessments made by the relevant monitoring bodies of the ILO and European Social Charter are not of such persuasive weight for determining whether the operation of the statutory ban on secondary strikes in ...
Robert Alderson Wright, Baron Wright, GCMG, PC, FBA (15 October 1869 – 27 June 1964) was a British judge. A commercial barrister, he was a Justice of the High Court from 1925 to 1932, when he was directly promoted to the House of Lords as a law lord.