Illegal Contract in UK Law
- The Effect Of An Illegal Contract
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Illegal contracts and discrimination
The Court of Appeal in Hounga v Allen & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 609 had to decide whether someone working illegally in the United Kingdom, was entitled to bring a claim for dismissal discriminatio......... Appeal Tribunal, whichhad accepted Ms Hounga’s claim, refused to allow her to bring the claim becaus e shewas working under an illegal contract of employment. The decision was on thegrounds of public policy. The Court of Appeal was anxious to avoid being seen ascondoning her illegality and ......
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THE TRANSFER OF PROPERTY UNDER ILLEGAL TRANSACTIONS1
...... IT is often stated to be a well-established rule that where property has been transferred under an illegal contract, and the parties have in addition observed all the formalities necessary for conveying title to the particular ......
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ANOTHER LOOK AT BOWMAKERS v. BARNET INSTRUMENTS
...... The common law on illegal contracts is Draconian enough, in all conscience, and the ...-purchase agreements 1 Cheshire and Fifoot, The Law of Contract, 7th ed. (1969). pp. a5306; Anson on Contract, 23rd ed. ......
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Sarah Green and Alan Bogg (eds), Illegality after Patel v Mirza
......(See however E Obiora and J MacLeod “Restitution under an illegal contract: a Scots law perspective on Patel v Mirza” (2018) 26 European ......
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CORRESPONDENCE
...... this can only be determined by reference to the illegal transaction. Even if the nature of this interest is ... which once more must be referred to the illegal contract . . . (footnote). It is on this ground that Bowmakers was ......
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The ‘Unruly Horse’ has Bolted: Tinsley v Milligan
...... that: (i) the consequences of being party to an illegal transaction does not depend upon an imponderable discretionary ... the Unruly Horse: Public Policy in the Law of Contract’ (1972) 30 CJJ 144; Gelhorn, ‘Contracts and Public Policy’ ......
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Editorial
...... a claim for dismissal discrimination where the claimant is an illegal immigrant in the light of the recent case of Hounga v Allen in the Court ..., the court refused to allow the claimant to enforce an illegal contract of employment on public policy grounds because it did not want to appear ......
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Return of Overseas Contract Workers and their Rehabilitation and Development in Kerala (India)
Large‐scale emigration of temporary contract workers from Kerala to countries in the Middle East began in the early 1970s. Return migration flows into Kerala assumed large proportions only after th.........Return migration flows into Kerala assumed large proportions only after the mid-1980s. Returned mi- grants include repatriated illegal immigrants and immigrants evacuated during times of political upheaval and hostalities. Since the end of the 1980s there have been several instances ......
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W W McBryde, THE LAW OF CONTRACT IN SCOTLAND Edinburgh: W Green & Son Ltd (www.wgreen.co.uk), Scottish Universities Law Institute, 3rd edn, 2007. clviii + 818 pp. ISBN 9780414016101. £175.
...... Connelly v Simpson 1993 SC 391 and the role of enrichment following breach, and Cuthbertson v Lowes (1870) 8 M 1073 and remedies under an illegal contract. Some of this analysis, however, also has implications for how we interpret the remedial consequences of essentially contractual ideas such ......
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