Innocent Misrepresentation in UK Law
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Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
... ... damages for loss suffered by reason of his having relied on an innocent but negligent misrepresentation. I cannot do better than adopt the ... ...
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Smith New Court Securities Ltd v Scrimgeour Vickers (Asset Management) Ltd and Another
... ... has acquired property in reliance on a fraudulent misrepresentation made by the defendant. The position in the present case is complicated by ... they were throwing the whole risk of catastrophic events onto the innocent purchaser rather than the fraudulent vendor. But they held that such ... ...
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HIH Casualty and General Insurance Ltd v Chase Manhattan Bank and Others
... ... , and/or (b) to damages from Chase for misrepresentation or non-disclosure …?" ... The Court of Appeal (in the ... But if the non-disclosure or misrepresentation were other than innocent, the insurer might have rights additional to that of avoidance: the right ... ...
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Sharland v Sharland
... ... Hence misrepresentation that would normally entitle a wife to rescind a contract (and have a ... consent order set aside as their consent had been induced by an innocent misrepresentation that the claimant was a widow at the date of the order ... ...
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Great Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd (Cape Providence)
... ... draws an analogy with the test for rescission where one party, by innocent misrepresentation, induces the other to enter into a contract – indeed ... ...
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Bell v Lever Bros Ltd
... ... seen later, exonerated him from the charge of fraudulent misrepresentation based upon the allegation that the statement was his ... 28 With regard ... Bell any innocent explanation of transactions in their view highly improper which, until ... ...
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Spence v Crawford
... ... the tonnage figures made by Richardson, and is not capable of an innocent explanation, ( c ) that the rough statement, showing a loss of £900, was ... the consent of the Crown, on the ground of fraudulent misrepresentation. The assignee was accepted by the Crown as a tenant. The pursuer made no ... ...
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Bentley (Dick) Productions Ltd v Harold Smith (Motors) Ltd
... ... it had been fitted with a replacement engine and gearbox, was an innocent misrepresentation (which does not give rise to damages), or whether it was ... ...
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Rose (F. E.) (London) v William H. Pim Jnr. & Company
... ... 20 Innocent misrepresentation may give rise to a right of rejection; that right was ... ...
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O'Sullivan v Management Agency and Music Ltd
... ... applied only to the rescission of contracts for misrepresentation or mistake, and did not apply to equitable relief where contracts had been ... to become a partner in a business was set aside on the ground of innocent misrepresentation, though the business which was restored was worse than ... ...
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