Bevan Ashford v Geoff Yeandle (Contractors) Ltd ((in Liquidation))
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 08 April 1998 |
| Date | 08 April 1998 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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12 cases
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Otech Pakistan Pvt Ltd v Clough Engineering Ltd and Another
...37 The view that we express above is also that adopted in robust terms by Scott VC in Bevan Ashford v Geoff Yeandle (Contractors) Ltd [1999] Ch 239. The judge said, at Arbitration proceedings are a form of litigation. The lis prosecuted in an arbitration will be a lis that could, had the pa......
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Transworld Payment Solutions U.K. Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v First Curaçao International Bank N.v
...legislation had specifically permitted CFAs to litigation in the courts which did not include arbitration: see Bevan Ashford v. Geoff Yeandle (Contractors) Ltd. (In Liquidation) [1999] Ch. 239. There are at least two reasons why this does not apply. First, it does not overcome the statutor......
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Arkin v Borchard Lines Ltd (No 2)
...fee agreements that did not conform to the requirements imposed by section 58 and in Bevan Ashford v. Geoff Yeandle (Contractors) Ltd [1999] Ch 239 Sir Richard Scott VC held that the provisions of section 58, which applied only to litigation, should be applied by analogy to solicitors who w......
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R (Factortame Ltd and Others) v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (No 8)
...law permitted conditional fee agreements that did not conform to the requirements imposed by s.58 and, in Bevan Ashford v Geoff Yeandle (Contractors) Limited (in Liquidation) [1999] Ch 239 Sir Richard Scott V-C held that the provisions of s.58, which applied only to litigation, should be a......
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1 firm's commentaries
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The Role of the Doctrines of Champerty and Maintenance in Arbitration
...Ltd v Clough Engineering Ltd [2006] SGCA 46 at [36]. 8 Otech [2006] SGCA 46 at [38]. 9 Bevan Ashford v Geoff Yeandle (Contractors) Ltd [1999] Ch. 239 at 249D-G; [1998] 3 W.L.R. 10 Giles v Thompson [1994] 1 A.C. 142; [1993] 2 W.L.R. 908; [1993] 3 All E.R. 321 at 328. 11 Giles v Thompson [199......
3 books & journal articles
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Building and Construction Law
...court proceedings, the Court of Appeal expressed agreement with the views of Scott VC in Bevan Ashford v Geoff Yeandle (Contractors) Ltd[1999] Ch 239 and noted that the public policy considerations behind the prohibition apply to all types of legal disputes and claims, whether the parties h......
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Arbitration Law
...These arrangements apply whether the case is before the courts or in arbitration (see Bevan Ashford v Geoff Yeandle (Contractors) Ltd[1999] Ch 239per Sir Richard Scott VC). 3.2 Champerty is an arrangement where one party agrees to aid another to bring a claim on the basis that ‘the person w......
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Bibliography—a Selection
...publics et entreprises privées, compatibles avec lesnormes ISO. Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes(www.ppur.epfl.ch), 1999. 239 pp. ISBN: 2–88074–441–5. (Bibliothèque Ressourceshumaines. Diriger l’ entreprise 13/Scharlig, Alain.)The basic ingredients essential to hu......
23 provisions
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Access to Justice Act 1999
...of the courts ( Thai Trading Co. (A Firm) v Taylor, [1998] 3 All ER 65 CA; and Bevan Ashford v Geoff Yeandle (Contractors) Ltd, [1998] 3 All ER 238 ChD). In the first of these cases the Court of Appeal held that there were no longer public policy grounds to prevent lawyers agreeing to work ......
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NRS 449A.106 Specific Rights: Information Concerning Facility; Treatment; Billing; Visitation
...of the patient's family.Notes:History: (Added to NRS by 1983, Ch. 339, § 3, eff. 5/17/1983; A 1985, Ch. 300, § 2, 1985, Ch. 568, § 54; 1999, Ch. 239, § 5; 2001, Ch. 590, § 11; 2011, Ch. 88, § 13 ) - (Substituted in revision for NRS 449.710 )Source: (Added to NRS by 1983, 820; A 1985, 906, 1......
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NRS 449A.112 Specific Rights: Care; Refusal of Treatment and Experimentation; Privacy; Notice of Appointments and Need For Care; Confidentiality of Information Concerning Patient
...or treatment.Notes:History: (Added to NRS by 1983, Ch. 339, § 4; A 1985, Ch. 568, § 55; 1989, Ch. 852, § 20; 1991, Ch. 708, § 2; 1999, Ch. 239, § 6, 1999, Ch. 630, § 14; 2007, Ch. 423, § 8, 2007, Ch. 435, § 111; 2011, Ch. 88, § 15 ) - (Substituted in revision for NRS 449.720 )Source: (Added......
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NRS 449A.103 Facility to Forward Medical Records Upon Certain Transfers of Patient
...for the proper treatment of the patient. Notes:History: (Added to NRS by 1991, Ch. 708, § 1, eff. 7/5/1991; A 1993, Ch. 640, § 174; 1999, Ch. 239, § 4; 2011, Ch. 88, § 12 ) - (Substituted in revision for NRS 449.705 )Source: (Added to NRS by 1991, 2349; A 1993, 2725; 1999, 1051; 2011, 360)-......
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