Berg Sons & Company Ltd v Mervyn Hampton Adams

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1992
Date1992
Year1992
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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17 cases
  • Moore Stephens v. Stone Rolls Ltd., (2009) 396 N.R. 203 (HL)
    • Canada
    • 30 July 2009
    ...v. Dickman et al., [1989] Q.B. 653 (C.A.), refd to. [paras. 76, 213]. Berg Sons & Co. v. Mervyn Hampton Adams et al., [2002] Lloyd's Rep. P.N. 41, refd to. [paras. 77, 150, Banque Bruxelles Lambert SA v. Eagle Star Insurance Co. - see South Australia Asset Management Corp. v. York Monta......
  • CIBC Mellon Trust Company and Others v Stolzenberg and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 May 2005
    ...Ch 250 at 271, [1979] 1 All ER 118; A-G's Reference (No 2 of 1982) [1984] QB 624, [1984] 2 All ER 216; Berg Sons & Co Ltd v Adams [1992] BCC 661 at 677, 678. 2 Re Fitzroy Bessemer Steel Co (1884) 50 LT 144; but see the observation of Baggallay LJ, in the Court of Appeal (1885) 33 WR 312 w......
  • Singularis Holdings Ltd (in Official Liquidation) (a Company Incorporated in the Cayman Islands) v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 30 October 2019
    ...out of the dishonest activities of its “directing mind and will” against a negligent auditor fails (as in Stone & Rolls and in Berg Sons & Co Ltd v Adams [1993] BCLC 1045) but a claim against a negligent bank or broker succeeds. But (quite apart from the difficulties of Stone & Rolls) this ......
  • Assetco Plc v Grant Thornton UK LLP
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 31 January 2019
    ...“ involves the relationship between the loss or damages suffered by the plaintiff and the fault of the defendant” ( Berg Sons v Adams [1992] BCC 661, 682D). The separate requirement that legal causation is satisfied fulfils the same policy imperative as the requirements of scope of duty and......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Auditors' Liability for BCCI
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Financial Crime No. 1-4, January 1994
    • 1 January 1994
    ...P. (1991), 'McNaughton v Hicks-Anderson', 7 Professional Negligence, No. 1, pp. 30-31. 15 [1991] Ch 295. 16 [1990] 1 WLR 1390. 17 [1992] BCC 661. 18 'The Future Development of Auditing', 1993 Auditing Practices Board. 315...
  • The public offer of securities in the United Kingdom.
    • United States
    • Denver Journal of International Law and Policy Vol. 27 No. 3, June 1999
    • 22 June 1999
    ...POS Regulations [sections] 15(5); FSA [sections] 151(5). (335.) (1964) AC 465. (336.) (1990) 2 AC 605. (337.) (1990) 1 Ch. 313. (338.) (1992) BCC 661. (339.) (1995) 1 All ER (340.) (1990) 1 WLR 1390. (341.) (1991) Ch. 295. (342.) The Act is not applicable to Scotland, but see section 10 of ......

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