B. and B. Viennese Fashions v Losane

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1952
CourtCourt of Appeal
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13 cases
  • Marles v Philip Trant & Sons Ltd (no 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 16 February 1953
    ...the claim was bottomed in an illegal contract." 10 The decision in Anderson, Ltd. V. Daniel was followed in this Court in B. & B. Viennese Fashions v. Losane, reported in 1952 1 All England Law Reports at page 309, where Lord Justice Jenkins said: "It is plain from the case of Anderson, Ltd......
  • Ashmore, Benson, Pease & Company Ltd v A. v Dawson Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 February 1973
    ...was capable of being performed in a perfectly legal manner," 12 That passage was further approved by Lord Justice Jenkins in B. and B. Viennese Fashions v. Losane 1952 1 T. L. R. 750. where he said, at page 755, "that illegality in the performance of a contract may avoid although the contra......
  • Shaw v Groom
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 4 December 1969
    ...to a contract which, though legal in form, is performed unlawfully". Then he gives a passage from Lord Justice Jenkins in B. & B. Viennese Fashions v. Losane, which I omit, and then goes one "But whether it is the terms of the contract or the performance of it that is called in question, th......
  • ParkingEye Ltd v Somerfield Stores Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 October 2012
    ...is such as to "turn the contract into an illegal contract" [the phrase is that of Jenkins LJ in B&B Viennese Fashions v Losame [1952] 1 All ER 909 at 913. 34 I elaborate on this oddity by reference to the facts of this case. It would surely not make any rational sense for the question of w......
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1 books & journal articles
  • VITIATING FACTORS IN CONTRACT LAW — THE INTERACTION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1998, December 1998
    • 1 December 1998
    ...Zealand Illegal Contracts Act 1970. 368 [1957] 1 QB 267. 369 Ibid at 284 (emphasis added). See also B and B Viennese Fashions v Losane[1952] 1 All ER 909 at 913, per Jenkins LJ as well as the recent Australian High Court decision of Fitzgerald v FJ Leonhardt Pty Ltd(1997) 71 ALJR 653 at 655......

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