Innocent Misrepresentation in UK Law
- Misrepresentation: Negligent And Innocent Statements In Contract Law
- Misrepresentation: Negligent And Innocent Statements In Contract Law
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The Consequences of Making a Misrepresentation
... ... Misrepresentations can be fraudulent, negligent or innocent. A fraudulent misrepresentation is made when the person making it knows or believes it to be untrue. A negligent misrepresentation is made when the ... ...
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Misrepresentation Claims: An Essential Update And Practical Advice
... ... loss. Fraudulent misrepresentation; negligent ... misrepresentation; and innocent misrepresentation: ... Fraudulent misrepresentation is the most ... serious and requires the false representation to have been made ... knowingly, ... ...
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The Importance Of Being Honest
... ... Failure to correct the replies to enquiries gave rise to an innocent misrepresentation, which, but for inclusion of this condition, would ... ...
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The Basics: Negotiating A Contract? Misrepresentation Or Just Exaggeration?
... ... The test is an objective one ... There is no requirement to establish fraud. If the innocent party can prove the statement was in fact false, it will be for the maker of the statement to establish that it reasonably believed in the truth of ... ...
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Midtown Acquisitions LP v Essar Global Fund Ltd [2017] EWHC 519 (Comm)
On 17 March 2017 Mr. Justice Teare delivered an important judgment concerning the enforcement of foreign (specifically New York) judgments in England. The case involved a New York procedure know...... ... that the judgement was obtained by fraud, defined as “an innocent misrepresentation of the position to the New York court”; and ... that ... ...
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Make No Mistake, Misrepresentation Can Be A Problem
... ... carelessly or without the representor having reasonable grounds for ... believing its truth ... An innocent misrepresentation occurs where the ... maker can show that he had reasonable grounds to believe a ... statement was true ... Where the claim relates ... ...
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Proposed Law Reforms: Misrepresentation And Non-Disclosure In Business Insurance
... ... An insurer can currently rely on a wholly innocent misrepresentation to avoid a policy. Under the proposals, absent agreement otherwise by the parties, an insurer would only be able to rely on a ... ...
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The Insurance Act 2015
... ... Where an insured has made a deliberate or reckless misrepresentation or non-disclosure, insurers may avoid the policy and keep the premium. In all other cases (i.e. innocent misrepresentation and/or non-disclosure), a system of proportionate ... ...
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