Estoppel by Representation in UK Law

  • Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG v Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 11 June 2010
    ... ... Pleading issue in respect of the first and second representation 104–111 ... Regardless of any question of contract or estoppel these indicated to the banks to whom they were presented that no ... ...
  • Thorner v Curtis and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 25 March 2009
    ... ... Such a claim, under the principle known as proprietary estoppel, requires the claimant to prove a promise or assurance that he will ... in the Court of Appeal (at paragraph 65), was that the representation was never made expressly but was "a matter of implication and inference ... ...
  • Springwell Navigation Corporation (A Body Corporate) v (1) Jp Morgan Chase Bank (A Body Corporate) (Formerly Known as the Chase Manhattan Bank) (2) Jp Morgan Europe Ltd (Formerly Known as Chase Manhattan International Ltd) and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 01 November 2010
    ... ... The “conservative” representation: the evidence relied on by Springwell on appeal ... “unconscionable” for Springwell to resile from the contractual estoppel before it can rely on either Sections 5(e), 5(f) and 6(c) of the GKO LN ... ...
  • Moorgate Mercantile Company Ltd v Twitchings
    • House of Lords
    • 16 June 1976
    ... ... respondent can succeed in showing that this amounted to a representation that no finance company member of H.P.I. had any interest in the car and ... upon the answer, he could, on classical principles, raise an estoppel against the appellants. In plain language, the appellants, by reason of ... ...
  • Freeman & Lockyer (A Firm)(Plaintiffs) Buckhurst Park Properties (Mangal) Ltd and Shiv Kumar Kapoor (Defendants)
    • Court of Appeal
    • 24 January 1964
    ... ... well established principlo that a party who seeks to set up an estoppel must show that he in fact relied on the representation that he alleges, be ... ...
  • Hunter and Others v Chief Constable of West Midlands
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 January 1980
    ... ... out these actions, the police relyfirst on the law as to issue estoppel. They say that the six men are estopped from raising again an issue which ... judicatam , issue estoppel, estoppel by deed, estoppel by representation, estoppel by conduct, estoppel by acquiescence, estoppel by election or ... ...
  • Gillett v Holt
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 March 2000
    ... ... an action claiming equitable relief based on proprietary estoppel brought by Mr Geoffrey Gillett. Apart from the main action the judge also ... answers in cross-examination, he did not suggest that the representation extended to "all his assets". The other assets came into the conversation, ... ...
  • Thrasyvoulou v Secretary of State for the Environment;; Oliver and Others v Secretary of State for the Environment and another
    • House of Lords
    • 14 December 1989
    ... ... Planning (Amendment) Act 1981, is capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam or to an issue estoppel ... 2 The first appeal arises ... been held that no such fetter can arise from an estoppel by representation: see Maritime Electric Co. Ltd. v. General Dairies Ltd. [1937] A.C ... ...
  • Norwich and Peterborough Building Society v Steed
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 March 1992
    ... ... The building society in its defence to counterclaim pleaded estoppel by deed. But, submitted Mr. Lloyd, the Hammonds, the other parties to the ... be relied on, it ought, I think, to have been estoppel by representation. The transfer records a transaction of sale. If, in reliance on the ... ...
  • Moorgate Mercantile Company Ltd v Twitchings
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 June 1975
    ... ... blameworthiness may give rise to an action for negligence, or to estoppel by negligence or by conduct. These are subject to quite different ... of this case, I think that the elements of estoppel by representation can be stated as follows — (see Spencer Bower, Estoppel by ... ...
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