Clean Hands in UK Law

  • Tinsley v Milligan
    • House of Lords
    • 24 June 1993
    ... ... seeking the aid of equity, because she did not come to equity with clean hands; he distinguished these authorities as cases in which the equitable ... ...
  • Hubbard v Vosper
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 November 1971
    ... ... these course, on their own admission, "can be dangerous in untrained hands ... 6 Mr. Vosper was a member of the Church of Scientology for ... by this code of ethics; and, that being so, they do not come with clean hands to this Court in asking this Court to protect those secrets by the ... ...
  • Warnink (Erven) Besloten Vennootschap v J Townend & Sons (Hull) Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 21 June 1979
    ... ... to an injunction because they did not come before the court with clean hands, but the argument did not succeed before the learned judge or in the ... ...
  • Ebrahimi v Westbourne Galleries Ltd; Re Westbourne Galleries Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 03 May 1972
    ... ... deplorable that the two other quasi partners should retain in their hands assets to which Mr. Darrington's creditors were in common fairness ... relies on the "just "and equitable" clause must come to court with clean hands, and if the breakdown in confidence between him and the other ... ...
  • Grobbelaar v News Group Newspapers Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 24 October 2002
    ... ... Mr Grobbelaar is about as far away from being an applicant with clean hands as one can imagine. To grant him an injunction because his ... ...
  • Tinker v Tinker
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 December 1969
    ... ... coming to equity to be relieved against his own act must come with clean hands. If, in a case such as the present, he were to put forward, as a ... ...
  • Re London School of Electronics Ltd
    • Chancery Division
    • 1985
    ... ... to grant relief or that the petitioner should come to court with clean hands (post, p. 482A–E ) ... Dictum of Lord Cross of Chelsea in In ... ...
  • D & C Builders Ltd v Rees
    • Court of Appeal
    • 12 November 1965
    ... ... He added the words to the receipt So she had the clean receipt "Received the sum of £300 from Mr Rees in completion of the ... ...
  • Duchess of Argyll v Duke of Argyll
    • Chancery Division
  • Ebrahimi v Westbourne Galleries Ltd; Re Westbourne Galleries Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 03 May 1972
    ... ... deplorable that the two other quasi partners should retain in their hands assets to which Mr. Darrington's creditors were in common fairness ... relies on the "just "and equitable" clause must come to court with clean hands, and if the breakdown in confidence between him and the other ... ...
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