BP Exploration Company (Libya) Ltd v Hunt

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1981
Date1981
Year1981
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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11 cases
  • Stocznia Gdanska SA v Latvian Shipping Company and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 26 February 1998
    ... ... in B. P. Exploration Co. (Libya) Ltd. v. Hunt [1979] 1 W.L.R. 783, 802 does not stand in the way of this conclusion ... ...
  • Boake Allen Ltd and Others v HM Revenue and Customs
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 January 2006
    ...Goff J, as he then was, so decided in BP Exploration (Libya) Ltd v. Hunt (No. 2) [1979] 1 W.L.R. 783, and the Court of Appeal ( [1981] 1 W.L.R. 232) and House of Lords ([1983] 2 AC 352) upheld the award. The entitlement which the Appellants claim would go further than that jurisdiction in t......
  • Victorian Workcover Authority v Esso Australia Ltd
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 13 September 2001
    ...ER 925 at 966–967. 60 See Bullen and Leake, Precedents of Pleadings, 3rd ed (1868) at 35. 61BP Exploration Co (Libya) Ltd v Hunt (No 2) [1981] 1 WLR 232; [1982] 1 All ER 925. 62BP Exploration Co (Libya) Ltd v Hunt (No 2) [1983] 2 AC 352. 63 [1983] 2 AC 352 at 373. 64 [1975] QB 748 at 751. ......
  • Lumbers v W Cook Builders Pty Ltd ((in Liquidation))
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 18 June 2008
    ...as opposed to the payment of money, “the identity and value of the resulting benefit to the recipient may be debatable” [ BP Exploration Co (Libya) Ltd v Hunt (No 2) [1979] 1 WLR 783 at 27 The word ‘free’ has been used in this context to direct attention to whether the recipient of a benefi......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Frustration
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Vitiating Factors
    • 4 August 2020
    ..., [1995] 1 WLR 1226 at 1237 (QB), Garland J; BP Exploration Co (Libya) Ltd v Hunt (No 2) , [1979] 1 WLR 783 at 800 (QB), Goff J, aff’d [1981] 1 WLR 232 (CA), aff’d [1983] 2 AC 352 (HL). 219 Above note 199. 220 Above note 200. The new uniform legislation has been adopted in the Yukon, above ......
  • Frustration
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive The Law of Contracts Part Three
    • 1 September 2005
    ...1226 at 1237 (Q.B.), Garland J.; B.P. Exploration Co. (Libya) Ltd. v. Hunt (No. 2) , [1979] 1 W.L.R. 783 at 800 (Q.B.), Goff J., aff’d [1981] 1 W.L.R. 232 (C.A.), aff’d [1983] 2 A.C. 352 (H.L.). 210 Above note 190. 211 Above note 191. The new uniform legislation has been adopted in the Yuko......

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