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.
| Year | Case Name | Citation | Author of Judgment | Lord Chancellor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | The Eric Beach Company Limited v The Attorney General of Ontario | [1929<nowiki>] UKPC 100] || Merrivale || Sankey|-| 1929 || The Royal Trust Company v The Attorney General of Alberta || [1929<nowiki>] UKPC 93] || Merrivale || Sankey|-| 1929 || Chung Chuck and others v Rex and others || [1929<nowiki>] UKPC 113] || Sankey || Sankey|-| 1929 || Dorothy Valentine Burnard v William Douglas Lysnar || [1929<nowiki>] UKPC 59] || Blanesburgh || Sankey|-| 1929 || The Attorney General of Canada v The Attorney General of British Columbia and others || [1929<nowiki>] UKPC 80] || Tomlin || Sankey|-| 1929 || The Dominion Building Corporation Limited v The King || [1929<nowiki>] UKPC 82] | Thankerton | Sankey | |
| 1929 | Daniel Eugene Lecavalier v The City of Montreal | [1929<nowiki>] UKPC 84] || Warrington of Clyffe || Sankey|-| 1929 || The Corporation of the City of St. Catherines v The Hydo-Electric Power Commission of Ontario || [1929<nowiki>] UKPC 85] || Tomlin || Sankey|-| 1929 || Henrietta Muir Edwards and others v The Attorney-General of Canada and others || [1929<nowiki>] UKPC 86] || Sankey || Sankey|-| 1928 || Edgar Sammut and another v Stickland || [1938<nowiki>] UKPC 43] | Maugham | Maugham |
| Year | Case Name | Citation | Author of Judgment | Lord Chancellor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Hugh Francis Hoole and others v The Royal Trust Company and another | [1930<nowiki>] 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<nowiki>] 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<nowiki>] UKPC 9] || Russell of Killowen || Sankey|-| 1930 || The Commissioner of Taxes v The Union Trustee Company of Australia, Limited || [1930<nowiki>] UKPC 90] || Blanesburgh || Sankey|-| 1930 || The Shell Company of Australia, Limited v The Federal Commissioner of Taxation || [1930<nowiki>] UKPC 97] || Sankey || Sankey|-| 1931 || S. P. A. Annamalay Chetty v B. A. Thornhill || [1931<nowiki>] UKPC 56] || Thankerton || Sankey|-| 1931 || Chief Tshekedi Khama v Ratshosa and another || [1931<nowiki>] UKPC 72] || Sanderson || Sankey|-| 1931 || The Attorney-General Canada v The Attorney-General of Ontario and others v The Attorney-General Canada || [1931<nowiki>] UKPC 93] || Sankey || Sankey|-| 1930 || Benjamin Knowles (Reasons) v The King || [1930<nowiki>] UKPC 27] || Dunedin || Sankey|-| 1930 || The Performing Right Society, Limited (Appeal No. 27 of 1929) v The Urban District Council of Bray || [1930<nowiki>] UKPC 36] || Sankey || Sankey|-| 1931 || John A. Rice (Appeal No. 114 of 1930) v Frits Ricdolf Christani and another || [1931<nowiki>] UKPC 67] || Tomlin || Sankey|-| 1931 || The Corporation of the County of Lincoln v The Corporation of the Village of Port Dalhousie || [1931<nowiki>] UKPC 76] || MacMillan || Sankey|-| 1930 || James Richardson and Sons, Limited and another v The Ship Robert J. Paisley || [1930<nowiki>] UKPC 5] || Merrivale || Sankey|-| 1930 || The Bank of Montreal v The Dominion Gresham Guarantee and Casualty Company || [1930<nowiki>] 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<nowiki>] UKPC 70] || MacMillan || Sankey|-| 1930 || The Toronto Transportation Commission v Canadian National Railways and others || [1930<nowiki>] UKPC 71] | MacMillan | Sankey |
| Year | Case Name | Citation | Author of Judgment | Lord Chancellor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | Attorney General for New South Wales v Trethowan | [1932<nowiki>] UKPC 39] || Sankey || Sankey|-| 1932 || Frederick Alexander James v The Honourable John Cowan and others || [1932<nowiki>] 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<nowiki>] UKPC 1] || Sankey || Sankey|-| 1932 || Eric George Benson v Kwong Chong || [1932<nowiki>] UKPC 40] || Blanesburgh || Sankey|-| 1933 || The Ottawa Electric Railway Company v The Canadian National Railways || [1933<nowiki>] UKPC 33] || Sanderson || Sankey|}1934-1935 | Wright | Sankey | |
| 1934 | The Pearl Assurance Company, Limited v The Government of the Union of South Africa | [1934<nowiki>] 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<nowiki>] UKPC 54] | Sankey | Sankey | |
| 1935 | British Coal Corporation and others (Petition) v The King | [1935<nowiki>] 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<nowiki>] UKPC 22] | MacMillan | Sankey |
| Year | Case Name | Citation | Author of Judgment | Lord Chancellor | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | Leonard (St. Eastcheap - Special Reference in the Benefice (Reasons) v JCPC | [1937<nowiki>] UKPC 17] || Sankey || ??|-| 1937 || Captain W. F. Wake-Walker O.B.E. R.N. v Steamer Colin W. Limited and others || [1937<nowiki>] UKPC 49] || Sankey || ??|-| 1937 || International Railway Company v The Nigara Parks Commission || [1937<nowiki>] UKPC 50] || MacMillan || ??|}1938-1939
| Roche | Caldecote | |||||||||||||
| 1941 | Olga Hall v Kingston and Saint Andrew Corporation | [1941<nowiki>] UKPC 1] || Luxmoore || ??|-| 1941 || Michel Habib Raji Ayoub and others v Sheikh Suleiman El Taji Ei Farouqi || [1941<nowiki>] UKPC 2] || Atkin || ??|-| 1940 || The Honourable John E. Brownlee v Vivian MacMillan || [1940<nowiki>] 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<nowiki>] UKPC 8] || Caldecote || Caldecote|-| 1940 || Gywn A. True v Amalgamated Collieries of W.A. Limited || [1940<nowiki>] UKPC 17] || Russell of Killowen || Caldecote|-| 1940 || George Richard Nicholas v The Commissioner of Taxes of the State of Victoria || [1940<nowiki>] UKPC 19] || Thankerton || Caldecote|-| 1941 || Union of Benefices Measures 1923 to 1936 v The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England || [1941<nowiki>] UKPC 12] || Sankey || Caldecote|}1942-1943 |