Battle of the Forms in UK Law

  • Butler Machine Tool Company Ltd v Ex-Cell-O Corporation (England) Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 April 1977
    ... ... 1 This case is a "battle of forms" The suppliers of a machine, the Butler Machine Tool Company ... ...
  • Trentham (G Percy) Ltd v Archital Luxfer Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 July 1992
    ... ... some superficial resemblance to cases that have become known as "battle of the forms" cases where each party seeks to impose his standard ... ...
  • Burmah Oil Company (Burma Trading) Ltd v Lord Advocate
    • House of Lords
    • 21 April 1964
    ... ... The battle of the Sittang river on 22nd February settled the fate of Rangoon, and ... The destruction of oil wells, like various forms of economic warfare, is quite outside the battle damage, and the fact that ... ...
  • Ridehalgh v Horsefield; Watson v Watson (Wasted Costs Orders)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 January 1994
    ... ... for the fact that an advocate in court, like a commander in battle, often has to make decisions quickly and under pressure, in the fog of war ... at the point of compromise in a definitive instrument which itself forms part of the terms of settlement expressly approved by the court. There may ... ...
  • Stack v Dowden
    • House of Lords
    • 25 April 2007
    ... ... context, to expect that it will be executed independently of the forms required to acquire the legal estate. Not only do solicitors and licensed ... They also lead people to spend far more on the legal battle than is warranted by the sums actually at stake. A full examination of the ... ...
  • Tekdata Interconnections Ltd v Amphenol Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 November 2009
    ... ... appeal raises the question whether in what is sometimes called "the battle of forms", there can be circumstances in which a traditional offer and ... ...
  • R (Factortame Ltd and Others) v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (No 8)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 July 2002
    ... ... 2 The Factortame litigation forms a notable chapter in the jurisprudence of this country and the European ... material, Grant Thornton had no role at all to play in the final battle before the House of Lords on the issue of liability. The fact that they ... ...
  • Campbell v MGN Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 October 2002
    ... ... Anonymous meeting last week after receiving therapy in her battle against illegal drugs" ... The article was headlined:— ... by means of equipment operating automatically, the publication forms part of the processing and falls within the scope of the Act. Does the ... ...
  • Claxton Engineering Services Ltd v TXM Olaj–és Gázkutató Kft
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 01 February 2011
    ... ... 19 In order to resolve what is effectively a “battle of the forms”, it is necessary for me to summarise the commercial ... ...
  • Buttes Gas and Oil Company v Hammer; Buttes Gas and Oil Company v Hammer (No. 3)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 June 1980
    ... ... This claim to refuse inspection is conceded. Battle has, however, been joined on paragraph 2, which describes 14 groups of ... communications, Buttes local office, however, had all the latest forms of communication. And so it cams about that Buttes and the Ruler of ... ...
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