Faramus v Film Artistes Association [1964] AC 925 (HL)
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Union, Defendant, had a rule that a person could not be a member if he had ever been convicted of a criminal offence.
Plaintiff had been convicted of an offence in Jersey, which was discovered after years of membership and service on the executive.
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CA held that the union was therefore entitled to expel Plaintiff / assert that he had never been a member.
The condition was to be construed as referring to all criminal offences, regardless of which jurisdiction / legal system they were committed under.
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