Sir Ernest Irvine Goulding (1 May 1910 - 13 January 2000)https://www.society.caths.cam.ac.uk/Public_Magazines/2000r.pdf was an English

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and High Court judge between 1971 and 1985. He was one of the first members of Wilberforce Chambers.

Biography

Goulding was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and

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Cases

Important decisions which Goulding J handed down included: * '' Patel v Ali''

985 Year 985 ( CMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Henry II (the Wrangler) is restored as duke of Bavaria by Empress Theophanu and her mother-in-law Adelaide at an ...

Ch 283 - on

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for breach of contract * '' Sky Petroleum Ltd v VIP Petroleum Ltd''

974 Year 974 ( CMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Battle of Danevirke: Emperor Otto II defeats the rebel forces of King Harald I, who has invaded Nordalbingia (modern-day Ho ...

1 WLR 576 – also on specific performance * ''

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BCLC 11 – on

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* '' Chase Manhattan Bank NA v Israel-British Bank (London) Ltd''

981 Year 981 ( CMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Emperor Otto II (the Red) leads the imperial court to Rome, making the city his imperial capital, and receiv ...

Ch 105 – arguable his most famous decision, on tracing through international bank settlement systems – the decision has been subject to "sustained, authoritative criticism." * ''

Oppenheimer v Cattermole ''Oppenheimer v Cattermole''

976 Year 976 ( CMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * January 10 – Emperor John I Tzimiskes dies at Constantinople, after returning from a second campaign against ...

AC 249 is a judicial decision of the English courts relating to whether English law should refuse to recognise Racial policy of Nazi Germany, Nazi era laws relating to the appropriation of Jewish property. Th ...

AC 249 - Goulding J had to decide whether a Nazi-era law expropriating Jewish property should be recognised; his refusal to recognise it was upheld by the

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* '' Hodgson v National and Local Government Officers Association''

972 Year 972 ( CMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Spring – Emperor John I Tzimiskes divides the Bulgarian territories, recently held by the Kievan Rus', into six ...

1 WLR 130 – concerning the governance of

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s. * ''Berry v Warnett (Inspector of Taxes)'' 9781 WLR 957 - concerning tax avoidance. * ''Schemmer v Property Resources Ltd''

975 Year 975 ( CMLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor John I raids Mesopotamia and invades Syria, using the Byzantine base at Antioch to pres ...

Ch 273 - on recognition of a foreign receivership order.

Family

He was father to Sir

Marrack Goulding Sir Marrack Goulding KCMG (2 September 19369 July 2010) was a British diplomat who served more than eleven years as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Early life Born in Plymouth in Devon, England, to Sir Irvine Goulding, a Hig ...

, a diplomat.

Arms

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goulding, Irvine Chancery Division judges 1910 births 2000 deaths Knights Bachelor British barristers English King's Counsel People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge