Adams v National Bank of Greece S.A.; Darling v National Bank of Greece S.A.
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | Viscount Simonds,Lord Reid,Lord Radcliffe,Lord Tucker,Lord Denning |
| Judgment Date | 19 May 1960 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1960] UKHL J0519-1 |
| Date | 19 May 1960 |
| Court | House of Lords |
[1960] UKHL J0519-1
Viscount Simonds
Lord Reid
Lord Radcliffe
Lord Tucker
Lord Denning
House of Lords
Upon Report from the Appellate Committee, to whom was referred the Cause Adams and others against National Bank of Greece S.A., Darling and others against National Bank of Greece S.A., Adams and others against National Bank of Greece S.A., (Consolidated Appeals), that the Committee had heard Counsel, as well on Monday the 4th, as on Tuesday the 5th, Wednesday the 6th, Thursday the 7th and Monday the 11th, days of April last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Ronald Shaw Adams of Jesmond Cottage, Jesmond Dene Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2, Walter Annand Anderson of Onslow Court Hotel, Queen's Gate, London, S.W.7, Appeals). Antoinette Antoniou (Widow), Georges Antoniou and Marthe Mireille Antoniou (Spinster), all of 20 Boulevard Marie Henriette, Spa, Belgium, Ronald Lister Armitage of 33 Slades Hill, Enfield, Middlesex, Mary Ellaline McNaughton Barnett of 2 Thirlestane Road, Edinburgh, 9 (Spinster), Barratt & Co. Ltd. of Mayes Road, Wood Green, London, N.22, Colin Hamilton Baynes of "Bassetts", Stanton St. John, Oxford, Albert Edward Berger of 37a Queens Grove, St. John's Wood, London, N.W.8, Eustace Reginald Bollam of The Crossways, West Moors, Wimborne, Dorset, The Brunner Investment Trust Ltd. of 27 Old Broad Street, London, E.C.2, Thomas Dacres Butler of The Old Rectory, Almer, Blandford, Dorset, Robert McAllister Campbell of 41 Lubnaig Road, Glasgow, C.3, Minnie Chaikin of 3 Gloucester Court, Gloucester Gardens, Golders Green, London, N.W.11 (Married Woman), Ida Elizabeth Chase of "Ashley Lodge", Hundleby, Spilsby, Lincolnshire (Spinster), James Collins of 2 The Mount, Altrincham, Cheshire, Peter Dacoutros of 57 East Street, Valetta, Malta, G.C., Henry Rudolph Hugh Davies of Elmley Castle, Pershore, Worcs., Madalen Augusta Lavinia Davies of Beach House, Bembridge, Isle of Wight (Widow), Francis Thomas Davies of Flat 4, 40 North Audley Street, London, W.1, John Coldbrook Hanbury Williams of 7 Princes Gate, London, S.W.7, Allan Norman Hutton Dewhurst of "Greygates", Mellor, Cheshire, Sheila Finch (Married Woman) of Foxhouse Lane, Maghull, Lancs., First Scottish American Trust Co. Ltd. of Friarfield House, Dundee, Hector John Fortnam and Walter John Fortnam, both of The Fosbury Fruit Farm, Putley, Ledbury, Dorothy Freer of Ballakaighen, Castletown, Isle of Man (Widow), Alan Jack Glyn of 17 Cadogan Place, Belgrave Square, London, S.W.1, Simeon Greenberg of 34 Danescroft Brent Street, Hendon, London, N.W.4, Robert Frederick Hall of 28 Old Road, Manchester, 9, D. Hamilton & Co. Ltd. of 21-39 Drewton Street, Bradford, John Ian Hamilton of 79 Osborne Road, Sheffield, 11, Ada Highly of 14 Lonsdale Road, Oldham (Spinster), Harry Lester Jackson of Parkhill, Combeshead Road, Newton Abbot, David Maynard Oliver Jones and Margaret Jones (Married Woman), both of Trem-y-Don, 70 Baglan Road, Port Talbot, Charles William Kirk of Afallon Dale Road, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, Alexander George Levy Langfield of The Dower House, Henbury, Bristol, J. Leibeson A/B of Arsenalsgatan 4 VII, Stockholm C. (a Company incorporated according to the law of Sweden), Wyndham George Lewis of 2 St. Andrews Place, Cardiff, William Norbury Martin of 6 Peverell Drive, Brentry, Bristol, Frank Reginald Mason of 41 Lattice Avenue, Ipswich, Marie Mavrogordato of 4 Avenue Raymond Poincar�, Paris 16e (Spinster), Nora Courtney Mee of "Skylarks", Trebetherick, Wadebridge, Cornwall (Married Woman), Anita Metliss of 25 Foscote Road. London, N.W.4 (Married Woman), James Muir of 10 Wingate Road. Heaton Chapel, Julia Natzio (Spinster) and Irene Joan Natzio (Spinster), both of Overmoor, Jackson Edge, Disley, near Stockport, Cheshire, Alexandra Nelidow of 4 Avenue Raymond Poincar�, Paris 16e (Married Woman), Yvonne Ohlund-Antoniou of 20 Boulevard Marie Henriette, Spa, Belgium (Married Woman), Osmond & Sons Ltd. of Doughty Road, Grimsby, Eirwyn Owen and his wife Mary Jane Owen, both of 345 High Street, Bangor, Alan Palgrave-Brown, Alastair Palgrave-Brown, Ian Palgrave-Brown and Jean Palgrave-Brown (Married Woman), all of Redisham Hall, Beccles, Suffolk, Hubert Arnold Pallant of 61 Wimpole Street, London, W.1, Harry Pebody of Gaytonway, Milton, Northampton, George Digby Pepys of Taylers Mead, Sparsholt, Winchester, Hants., Arthur Alan Norman Perkins of Fossebridge Hotel, Fossebridge, near Cheltenham, Gloucester, Percy Luniss Powell of 204 Llandaff Road, Cardiff, James Walker Ritchie, Alastair Campbell Blair and Ronald Kerr Will, all of 28 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, John Rodocanachi of The Low Farm, Darsham, Saxmundham, Suffolk, Adolf Rosenthal of 31 Throgmorton Avenue, London, E.C.2, Paola Rosetti De Soander of Via Imbriani 5, Trieste (Spinster), Aspasia Sevastopulo of Via Fabio Severo 150, Trieste (Spinster), Emanuel Sevastopulo of Via Fabio Severo 150, Trieste, Penelope Sevastopulo of Via Fabio Severo 150, Trieste (Widow), Paul E. Shaw & Co. (a firm) of Warnford Court, Throgmorton Street, London, E.C.2, Leon Siedlecki of 55 Belsize Park, London, N.W.3, Emil John Speyer of 2 South Parade, London, W.4, Beatrice Lucy Tarr of 30 Queens Road, Ashley Down, Bristol (Married Woman), Ronald Ewart Tarr of 6 Peverell Drive, Brentry, Bristol, Oscar Turgel of 43 Ralph Court, Queensway, London, W.2, Harry James Ward of Glen Capel, Hartfield Road, Forest Row, Sussex, Mary Clare Ward of "Etonfield", Gwernaffield Road, Mold, North Wales (Widow), Frances Watling of 1/4 Copthall Chambers, London, E.C.2 (Married Woman), Colin Kenric Graham White of "Westways", Bardowie by Milngavie, Richard Oliver MacMahon Williams of 35 Melville Street. Edinburgh 3, Annie Vera Monnington Wolstencroft of The Grahams, Whinney Heys Road, Blackpool (Married Woman), Stanley Manning Woolford of Theydon, 11a Westmoreland Avenue, Hornchurch, Essex, Malcolm Lyall Darling of 42 Catherine Place, London, S.W.1, Robert Ferguson of 42 Guildford Avenue, Gillshill Road, Hull, Helen Frances Maunder of 15 Littleham Road, Exmouth (Married Woman), Thomas Steve Huddleston of 24 Stanley Street, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Bridget Eileen Smith of 150 Station Street, Burton-on-Trent (Spinster), Paul Wesley Harrison Weightman and Wesley Weightman, both of The Hall Farm, Silks-worth, County Durham. Alan Norman Hutt of 8 Ashley Court, Epsom, Surrey, Arthur Cole and John Cole, both of 11 Rupert Road, London, W.4, Scottish Cities Investment Trust Ltd. of 36-37 King Street, London, E.C.2, Cyril Metliss of 22 Upper Grosvenor Street, London, W.1, Kate Clinton Baddeley of The Grand Hotel, Jersey (Married Woman), Sylvia Edith Thomas of Forest Hill. Beaumont, Jersey (Married Woman), Colin Graham Trapnell of P.O. Box 21, Kikuyu, Kenya, and William Mayer Truswell of Dunkeld, High Salvington, Worthing, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 29th of April 1959, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, might seem meet; as also upon the Petition and Appeal of Malcolm Lyall Darling of 42 Catherine Place, London, S.W.1, Robert Ferguson of 42 Guildford Avenue, Gillshill Road, Hull. Helen Frances Maunder of 15 Littleham Road, Exmouth (Married Woman), Thomas Steve Huddleston of 24 Stanley Street, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Bridget Eileen Smith of 150 Station Street, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire (Spinster), Paul Wesley Harrison Weightman and Wesley Weightman both of The Hall Farm, Silksworth, County Durham, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 29th of April 1959, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, might seem meet; as also upon the Petition and Appeal of Ronald Shaw Adams of Jesmond Cottage, Jesmond Dene Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2, Walter Annand Anderson of Onslow Court Hotel, Queen's Gate, London, S.W.7, Antoinette Antoniou (Widow) of 20 Boulevard Marie Henriette, Spa, Belgium, Marthe Mireille Antoniou (Spinster), of 20 Boulevard Marie Henriette, Spa, Belgium, Ronald Lister Armitage of 33 Slades Hill, Enfield, Middlesex, Mary Ellaline McNaughton Barnett (Spinster) of 2 Thirlestane Road, Edinburgh 9, Barratt � Co. Limited of Mayes Road, Wood Green, London, N.22. Colin Hamilton Baynes of "Bassetts", Stanton St. John, Oxford, Albert Edward Berger of 37a Queens Grove, St. John's Wood, London, N.W.8, Eustace Reginald Bollam of The Crossways, West Moors, Wimborne, Dorset, The Brunner Investment Trust Ltd. of 27 Old Broad Street, London, E.C.2, Thomas Dacres Butler of The Old Rectory, Almer, Blandford, Dorset, Robert McAllister Campbell of 41 Lubnaig Road, Glasgow, C.3, Minnie Chaikin (Married Woman) of 3 Gloucester Court, Gloucester Gardens, Golders Green, London, N.W.11, Ida Elizabeth Chase of "Ashley Lodge", Hundleby, Spilsby, Lincolnshire (Spinster), The Chase Manhatten Executor & Trustee Corporation Limited of 6 Lombard Street, London, E.C.3, James Collins of 2 The Mount, Altrincham, Cheshire. 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