El Ajou v Dollar Land Holdings Plc

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
Judgment Date06 December 1995
Date06 December 1995

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  • Abdul Ghani El Ajou v Dollar Land Holdings Ltd Factorum NV
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 2 December 1994
  • Sagicor Ins v Crawford
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 14 February 2011
    ...3 W.L.R. 1913; [2003] 1 All E.R. 97; [2002] UKHL 48, dictum of Lord Nicholls applied. (13) El Ajou v. Dollar Land Holdings plc, [1993] 3 All E.R. 717; [1993] BCLC 735; on appeal, [1994] 2 All E.R. 685; [1994] 1 BCLC 464; [1994] BCC 143; [1993] N.P.C. 165, dicta of Nourse, L.J. applied. (14)......
  • Hutchinson Ltd v Cititrust
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 30 January 1998
    ...984, considered. (4) -Chaplin v. Boys, [1971] A.C. 356; [1969] 2 All E.R. 855, applied. (5) -El Ajou v. Dollar Land Holdings PLC, [1993] 3 All E.R. 717; [1993] BCLC 735; on appeal, [1994] 2 All E.R. 685; [1994] 1 BCLC 464, dicta of Millett J. applied. (6) -Fidelity & Guar. Intl. Ltd. v. Hak......
  • Board of Trustees of the Sabah Foundation and Others, The v Datuk Syed Kechik bin Syed Mohamed and Another
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1999
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2 firm's commentaries
  • Who Owns A Bribe?
    • Jersey
    • Mondaq Jersey
    • 9 December 2014
    ...Ltd [1991] 2 AC 548, at para 572. 15 Foskett v McKeown [2001] 1 AC 102, at paras 129-133. 16 El Ajou v Dollar Land Holdings plc [1993] 3 All ER 717, at paras 17 Re Hallett's Estate (1879) 13 ChD 696, at paras 726-729. 18 Re Tilley [1967] Ch 1179, at para 1185. 19 Federal Republic of Brazil ......
  • Recent Developments In The Law Of Tracing In The Cayman Islands
    • Cayman Islands
    • Mondaq Cayman Islands
    • 12 July 2022
    ...[871]. 3 Borden (UK) Limited v Scottish Timber Products Limited [1981] Ch. 46, per Buckley LJ. 4 See El Ajou v Dollar Holdings plc [1993] 3 All ER 717, referred to in AHAB v SAAD at paragraphs [882] to [884]. 5 Relfo Limited (in liquidation) v Varsani [2015] 1 BCLC 14; [2014] EWHC Civ 360, ......
16 books & journal articles
  • Anti-Suit Injunctions: General Principles
    • United Kingdom
    • Oxford University Press Books and Journals The Anti-Suit Injunction (Second Edition)
    • Invalid date
    ...‘Choice of Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in the English Conflict of Laws’ (1951) 28 BYBIL 273, 277; see also El Ajou v Dollar Land Holdings [1993] 3 All ER 717, 736, reversed on other grounds [1994] 2 All ER 685 (CA). This is the approach still taken today in Australia: Paramasivam v Flynn......
  • Chapter 3: Capacity to Enter into Derivatives Transactions
    • United Kingdom
    • Taylor and Francis The Law of Derivatives
    • Invalid date
    ...the courts have often been concerned not to impose too onerous obligations on the recipients of money. As Millett J said in El Ajou v. Dollar Land Holdings: “A recipient is not expected to be unduly suspicious and is not to be held [to have notice] unless he went ahead without further inqui......
  • Chapter 11: Jurisdiction, Foreign Judgments and Choice of Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Taylor and Francis Product Liability: Law and Insurance
    • Invalid date
    ...between the lex fori and the lex causae. 452 Arab Monetary Fund v Hashim [1993] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 543, 564. 453 El Ajou v Dollar Holdings plc [1993] 3 All ER 717, 736. And any claims in defamation: s.13. 455 Ibid., s. 10. 456 s. 11(1). 457 s. 9(5). 458 Para 11.184. 459 See further, para 11.186.......
  • 'The receipt of what?': Questions concerning third party recipient liability in equity and unjust enrichment.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 31 No. 1, April 2007
    • 1 April 2007
    ...J); Powell v Thompson [1991] 1 NZLR 597 (Thomas J). (68) Agip [1990] Ch 265, 292-3. See also El Ajou v Dollar Land Holdings plc [1993] 3 All ER 717, (69) See, eg, Powell v Thompson [1991] 1 NZLR 597. (70) [1987] Ch 264. (71) Ibid 272-3, 278. Of course, this justification for the acceptance ......
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