Double Recovery in UK Law
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Johnson v Gore Wood & Company (A Firm)
... ... the solicitors may have offered the driver his only hope of recovery ... 39 The plaintiff in C (A Minor) v. Hackney London Borough Council ... Double recovery, of course, cannot be permitted. The problem does not arise in ... ...
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Vento v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police (No.2)
... ... injury to feelings, and, in particular, how should the problem of double recovery for injury to feelings be approached, if awards of compensation ... ...
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Alfred McAlpine Construction Ltd v Panatown Ltd
... ... to achieve the proper disposal of the monies awarded to avoid a double jeopardy. Alternatively, in order to achieve an effective solution, it ... nature, namely for work, labour and the supply of materials, the recovery of more than nominal damages for breach of contract is dependent upon the ... ...
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Dimond v Lovell
... ... is spared the need to lay out the cost of the hire in advance of recovery from the defendant or his insurers, the trouble and anxiety of pursuing a ... of third parties") as "apparent exceptions to the rule against double recovery" founded on the special considerations of policy which Lord Reid ... ...
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Jameson and Another v Central Electricity Generating Board
... ... the beneficiary under the will, that person may be entitled to a double recovery. It is unnecessary to consider why Parliament should have so ... ...
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Investment Trust Companies v Revenue and Customs Commissioner
... ... Trust plc, F&C Income Growth Investment Trust plc, and M&G Recovery Investment Trust plc. They will be referred to respectively as the ... and the enrichment of the defendant, the need to avoid the risk of double recovery, the need to avoid conflict with contracts between the parties, ... ...
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R v Waya (Terry)
... ... It does not concern civil recovery under Part 5 of POCA , which was considered recently by the court in ... a case HM Revenue and Customs does not as a matter of practice seek double recovery by way of both the payment of the unpaid duty and a confiscation ... ...
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Harris v Empress Motors Ltd
... ... himself fallen into error; he had quite correctly pointed out the double recovery, but he picked the wrong head of damage to adjust. The deduction ... ...
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Giles v Rhind
... ... action in respect of its loss, its assets are not depleted by the recovery of damages by the shareholder. The position is, however, ... to recover in respect of such loss, then either there will be double recovery at the expense of the defendant or the shareholder will recover ... ...
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Hunt v Severs
... ... to her general well-being and were calculated to assist her recovery from the devastating consequences of the accident. But for the fact that ... which underlie these two apparent exceptions to the rule against double recovery are, I think, well understood: see, for example, Parry v ... ...
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