Misrepresentation Deceit in UK Law
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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 ... entitled to damages from Chase only on the basis of a good claim in deceit, and for these purposes it has not been suggested that such a claim can be ... ...
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Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
... ... reason of his having relied on an innocent but negligent misrepresentation. I cannot do better than adopt the following statement of the case from ... It was an action of deceit based on fraud and nothing else. But it was held that the directors had ... ...
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Armitage v Nurse
... ... term "fraud" thus came to be used to describe what fell short of deceit, but imported breach of a duty to which equity had attached its sanction." ... for damages for deceit, that is to say, for fraudulent misrepresentation. In such a case fraud must be proved by showing that the false ... ...
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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 ... Thereafter the only claim by Smith has been for damages for deceit. Both before the trial judge, Chadwick J. [1992] B.C.L.C. 1104 , and the ... ...
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Downs v Chappell
... ... First Defendant Kevin Chappell they claim damages in the tort of deceit. Against the Second Defendants Stephenson Smart, who are a firm of ... has been applied to the torts of deceit and negligent misrepresentation in cases which bear a marked similarity to the present case ... ...
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VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corporation
... ... , so far as concerns the law applicable to the claims in misrepresentation, the argument which is put forward by Mr Friedman and which is relevant to ... Moscow, all of whom are therefore jointly liable with Nutritek for deceit, or liable in conspiracy, or both ... 37 It is on that basis ... ...
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Scott v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis
... ... that there could not be a conspiracy to defraud unless there was deceit was rejected by Judge Hines and the Appellant then pleaded guilty to the ... They need not involve fraudulent misrepresentation such as is needed to constitute the civil tort of deceit. Dishonesty of ... ...
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Saunders v Edwards
... ... the plaintiff £7,000 as damages for the fraudulent misrepresentation and an additional £500 for inconvenience and disappointment, in each case ... 1459: "…..the correct measure of damages in the tort of deceit is an award which serves to put the plaintiff into the position he would ... ...
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Michael Douglas (1st Respondent) Catherine Zeta-Jones (2nd Respondent) Nothern & Shell Plc (3rd Respondent) v Hello Ltd (1st Appellant) Hola S.A. (2nd Appellant) Eduardo Sanchez Junco (3rd Appellant)
... ... including Hello!, from defending the claim, on the grounds of their deceit (including the lies to the Court of Appeal), their failure to give proper ... have involved at least a trespass or some deceit or misrepresentation on the photographer's part ... 94 Had the ... ...
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Yam Seng Pte Ltd (a Company Registered in Singapore) v International Trade Corporation Ltd
... ... that it was induced to enter into the Agreement by misrepresentation ... 4 Both claims are strenuously denied by ITC. As regards the ... these words meant that the insured had no liability even for deceit where the insured's agent had dishonestly provided information known to be ... ...
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