Banking in UK Law
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Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
... ... The bank need not have answered the enquiry from the National Provincial Bank. It appears, however, that it is a matter of banking convenience or courtesy and presumably of mutual business advantage that enquiries as between banks will be answered. The fact that it is most ... ...
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Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
... ... There was no statutory regulation of its subsequent performance. But the Bank of England operated an informal system of supervision. The Banking Act of 1979, enacted to give effect in domestic law to the First Council Banking Co-ordination Directive of 12 December 1977 (77/780/E.E.C.), ... ...
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Rainy Sky SA and Others v Kookmin Bank
... ... of total sums paid by the Buyer to the Builder in advance of delivery together with interest thereon as herein provided within thirty (30) banking days of acceptance of rejection. … The interest rate of the refund … shall be seven per cent (7%) per annum … If the ... ...
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Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington London Borough Council
... ... 31 It is first necessary to establish what the case was about. The Birkbeck Permanent Benefit Building Society decided to set up a banking business, known as the Birkbeck Bank. The banking business was however held to be ultra vires the objects of the building society; and there followed ... ...
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Amalgamated Investment & Property Company Ltd v Texas Commerce International Bank Ltd
... ... Guarantor'), in consideration of your from time to time making or contributing loans or advances to or otherwise giving credit or affording banking accommodation or facilities to AMALGAMATED (NEW PROVIDENCE) PROPERTY LTD. of P.O. BOX 868, NASSAU, BAHAMAS ... 17 ... ...
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Shalson and Others v Russo and Others; Mimran and Another (Part 20 Claimants)
... ... Westbond International Bank Limited ("WIB") ... 10 WIB is at the heart of the case. It had a banking licence from the Government of Antigua. The court has been assisted in understanding its affairs by the evidence of Nicholas Wood. He and Andrew ... ...
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Bank Mellat v HM Treasury (No 2)
... ... Security Council Resolution 1803 (2008) strengthened the measures required by Resolutions 1737 and 1747. In relation to the provision of banking and other financial services to support Iran's weapons programmes, the new resolution called upon all states to "exercise vigilance over ... ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland Plc v Etridge (No 2); Kenyon-Brown v Desmond Banks & Company (Undue Influence) (No 2); Bank of Scotland v Bennett; UCB Home Loans Corporation Ltd v Moore; National Westminster Bank Plc v Gill; Midland Bank Plc v Wallace; Barclays Bank Plc v Harris; Barclays Bank Plc v Coleman
... ... They are, apparently, unwilling to assume the responsibility of advising the wife at such a meeting. Instead, the banking practice remains, as before, that in general the bank requires a wife to seek legal advice. The bank seeks written confirmation from a solicitor that ... ...
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Bank of England v Riley and Another
... ... in reliance upon the privilege against self-incrimination, as she claimed, or whether that privilege was excluded by section 42 of the Banking Act 1987 as submitted by the Bank of England, the plaintiff in the action ... 3 Mr. Justice Morritt held that on the true construction of section ... ...
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Lipkin Gorman (A Firm)(Original Appellants and Cross-Respondents) v Karpnale Ltd (Formerly Playboy Club of London Ltd) (Original Respondents and Cross-Appellants)
... ... , that she obtained a good title to the money because it was a gift to her from the thief and the fact that she had paid the money into her banking account prevented any following of the money and that an action for money received would therefore not lie. Bankes L.J. said, at p. 327: ... ...
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