Indemnity Clause in UK Law

  • A contracting loophole: James Fairchild explains how the law on implied employment status has created risks for companies that use agency workers.
    • No. 2008, April 2008
    • Financial Management (UK)
    • Fairchild, James
    • Legal briefing
    ...... to be the best option, but you could ask the agency for an indemnity clause against claims from either the worker or HMRC. There are other ......
  • Delegation By Trustees: A Reappraisal
    • No. 22-4, July 1959
    • The Modern Law Review
    ......." Although in the pre-1926 trusts a trustee-indemnity clause was common, only in very exceptional cases Is did the ......
  • DISCHARGE FOR BREACH AND EXCEPTION CLAUSES SINCE HARBUTT'S “PLASTICINE”
    • No. 40-1, January 1977
    • The Modern Law Review
    ...... M.R., Widgery and Cross L.JJ.) held that an exception clause which, on its proper construction, covered the events which ... Board, which in turn relied on an exclusion and indemnity clause in its contract with the employers. This in terms ......
  • Striking a Balance in Contract Interpretation: The Primacy of the Text
    • No. , January 2019
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 52-74
    ...... in the light of (i) the natural and ordinary meaning of the clause, (ii) any other relevant provisions [in the contract], (iii) the overall ... The dispute in Wood focussed on the scope of an indemnity in a share-sale agreement. The buyer had purchased all of the shares in a ......
  • The Arson Racket
    • No. 13-2, April 1940
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ...... also taken out a life insurance on himself with a double indemnity clause in case of accidental death. He had selected his un- ......
  • NOTES OF CASES
    • No. 45-3, May 1982
    • The Modern Law Review
    ...... accords specialist treatment to individual forms of clause.’ There is now evidence that the judicial approach to the ... 3 (2) (b) (clauses deflning an obligation); s. 4 (indemnity clauses); s. 8 (clauses excluding or restricting liability for ......
  • VICARIOUS LIABILITY AND THE MASTER'S INDEMNITY
    • No. 20-3, May 1957
    • The Modern Law Review
    ...... of this opinion, it may be pointed out that there is nothing in the Act to prevent the policy containing a clause binding the assured to indemnify the company against all claims, and in fact section 38 expressly saves the validity of such ......
  • Mitigating Legal Risks in Nigeria's Project Finance Market
    • No. , August 2017
    • African Journal of International and Comparative Law
    • 442-455
    ...... or government support agreement may have a non-discriminatory clause under which the Host State agrees not to pass any legislation or otherwise ...60 . The use of appropriate indemnity clause in contract documents may also mitigate the inherent legal risks in ......
  • Duties of insurance brokers
    • No. 12-2, June 2004
    • Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance
    • 128-131
    In this brief paper the authors consider the duties owed by professional indemnity insurance brokers to their insured clients. Given the prevalence of claims for financial mis‐selling this is an im...
    ...... brief paper the authors consider theduties owed by professional indemnity insurancebrokers to their insured clients. Given the pre-valence of claims ... UNDER THE POLICYThe standard professional indemnity insur-ing clause offers coverage to the insured‘against any claim first made during ......
  • When a backer is an expropriator: pitfalls in the consumer protection mechanism for off-plan building sales in Vietnamese law
    • No. 14-1, May 2022
    • Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law
    • 11-24
    Purpose: To motivate investments in housing projects, the state may allow private entities to mobilize capital through selling off-plan buildings and use proceeds to complete the project. The state...
    ...... established in the form of a guarantee commitment inaccordance with Clause 12 Article 3 and Article 15 hereof. According to Article 3.(12),guarantee ... shall only provide guarantee commitments insofar as thereis an indemnity clause in the contract. This rule is potentially unfair for consumers. ......
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