| Ponoka-Calmar Oils v Wakefield | |
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| Court | Judicial Committee of the Privy Council |
| Full case name | Ponoka-Calmar Oils Ltd. and another v Earl F. Wakefield Co. And others |
| Decided | 7 October 1959 |
| Citation | [1959] UKPC 20, [1960] AC 18 |
| Case history | |
| Appealed from | Earl F. Wakefield Company v. Oil City Petroleums (Leduc) Ltd. et al., 1958 CanLII 46, [1958] SCR 361 (22 April 1958), Supreme Court (Canada) |
| Court membership | |
| Judges sitting | Viscount Simonds, Lord Reid, Lord Radcliffe, Lord Tucker, Lord Denning |
| Case opinions | |
| Decision by | Viscount Simonds |
| Keywords | |
| mechanic's liens | |
Ponoka-Calmar Oils v Wakefield[1] is notable for being the last ruling rendered by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council with respect to an appeal from the courts of Canada. The central issue concerned the construction of statutes relating to mechanic's liens and how they attach to land and the oil and gas severed from it, which issue had generated conflicting rulings in the Canadian courts.
- ^ Ponoka-Calmar Oils Ltd. and another v Earl F. Wakefield Co. And others [1959] UKPC 20, [1960] AC 18 (7 October 1959), P.C. (on appeal from Canada)