Doctrine of Consideration in UK Law

  • Johnson v Gore Wood & Company (A Firm)
    • House of Lords
    • 14 December 2000
    ... ... re-amended statement of claim are the subject of detailed consideration below ... 19 The preliminary issues came for hearing at first instance ... : "The second question depends on the application of a doctrine of estoppel, namely res judicata. Their Lordships agree with the view ... ...
  • Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 May 1963
    ... ... Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause: It is ... Peek. The whole of the doctrine as to fiduciary relationships, as to the duty of care arising from implied ... ...
  • White and Another v Jones and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 16 February 1995
    ... ... ; indeed, although they demonstrate the importance attached to the doctrine of privity of contract in 1861, nevertheless they did not form part of the ... is required as a matter of justice is reinforced by consideration of the role played by solicitors in society. The point was well made by ... ...
  • Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 November 1989
    ... ... £575 per completed flat, is unenforceable since there was no consideration for it. This issue was not raised in the defence, but we are told that the ... suggested to us in argument that, since the development of the doctrine of promissory estoppel, it may well be possible for a person to whom a ... ...
  • Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 15 June 1942
    ... ... , Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause: It is ... been regarded as a suitable way in which to express and apply the doctrine of frustration. I entirely agree with the Court of Appeal that in the ... ...
  • Rondel v Worsley
    • House of Lords
    • 22 November 1967
    ... ... Worsley, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause: It is ... In Scotland the doctrine of consideration does not apply, yet the Scottish judges have been in no ... ...
  • Actionstrength Ltd (trading as Vital Resources) v International Glass Engineering in.GL.EN SpA and another
    • House of Lords
    • 03 April 2003
    ... ... disposition of land, this second mischief was mitigated by the doctrine of part performance. Implementation of an agreement (even if partial) ... Sixth Interim Report, Statute of Frauds and the Doctrine of Consideration, Cmd 5449, paragraph 16) recommended the repeal of so much as remained of ... ...
  • Homburg Houtimport BV v Agrosin Private Ltd (Starsin)
    • House of Lords
    • 17 March 2003
    ... ... pertinent where the issue is one which, like that now under consideration, has been the subject of repeated litigation over the years in cases which ... stevedores recognised that there was a strong argument that the doctrine of fundamental breach might prevent the exemption clause from applying to ... ...
  • Bradford & Bingley Plc v Rashid
    • House of Lords
    • 12 July 2006
    ... ... Please could you take the above into consideration and reassess this matter and of course his financial situation." ... debt (as might have been the case under Scots law, which has no doctrine of consideration, or which might have been the case under English law, if ... ...
  • Alfred McAlpine Construction Ltd v Panatown Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 27 July 2000
    ... ... in was plainly heavily influenced by what was seen as the doctrine, or the rule, in (1839) 6 Cl. & F. 600 ... But the use of the word "rule" ... Consideration of gives rise to a real question whether it propounded any new principle ... ...
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