Burmah Oil Company Ltd v Governor and Company of the Bank of England

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1979
CourtHouse of Lords
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135 cases
  • Government of Malaysia; Merdeka University Bhd
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1981
  • Campbell v Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 April 1982
    ...did not get discovery of the documents of the Bank of England. It was not necessary for fairly disposing of the matter: see Burmah Oil Co. v. Bank of England (1980) Appeal Cases— 20 at page 1121 F-G and 1122 F-G by Lord Salmon; 1129 A-B and 1130 F by Lord Edmund-Davies; 1136 A-G by Lord Kei......
  • Whittaker v Watler
    • Cayman Islands
    • Court of Appeal (Cayman Islands)
    • 6 December 1996
    ...Canada v. Trade Secy. (No. 2), [1983] 2 A.C. 394; [1983] 1 All E.R. 910, distinguished. (2) -Burmah Oil Co. Ltd. v. Bank of England, [1980] A.C. 1090; [1979] 3 All E.R. 700, followed. (3) -Continental Reinsurance Corp. (UK) Ltd. v. Pine Top Ins. Ltd., [1986] 1 Lloyds Rep. 8. (4) -Conway v. ......
  • R. v. Song (D.), (2001) 296 A.R. 132 (QB)
    • Canada
    • Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta (Canada)
    • 25 July 2001
    ...in identifying the interest sought to be protected. Examples of how this should be done appear in Burmah Oil Co. v. Bank of England , [1979] 3 All E.R. 700 (H.L.), and Goguen v. Gibson , [1983] 2 F.C. 463 (C.A.), where the Minister described with as much detail as the nature of the subject ......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Dispute Resolution Review (4th Edition) - Cayman Islands
    • Bermuda
    • Mondaq Bermuda
    • 4 May 2012
    ...Sections 136-137. 41 Section 139. 42 2010 Revision. 43 [2004] UKHL48. 44 Burmah Oil Co Ltd v. Governor and Company of the Bank of England [1980] AC 1090. 45 Brown v. Rice [2007] EWHC 46 [1973] 2 All ER 943. 47 2011 Revision. 48 Grand Court Rules Order 24, Rule 1. 49 Compagnie Financière v. ......
8 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Public International Law. Second Edition
    • 16 June 2008
    ...No. 410 .................................................................. 231, 379, 397– 400 Burmah Oil Co. Ltd. v. Bank of England, [1979] 3 All E.R. 700 (H.L.) ............. 343 Butcher v. Saint Lucia (1998), 21 C.P.C. (4th) 236, [1998] O.J. No. 2026 (Gen. Div.), aff’d [1999] O.J. No. 12......
  • The Constitutional Logic of the Common Law.
    • United States
    • Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Vol. 53 No. 1, January 2020
    • 1 January 2020
    ...EVOLUTION OF A CONSTITUTION: EIGHT KEY MOMENTS IN BRITISH CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY 26-28 (2006). Cf. Burmah Oil Co., Ltd. v. Bank of Eng. [1980] AC 1090, 1145 (appeal taken from Eng.) ("Of course, the United States have a written constitution and Bill of Rights. Nevertheless both derive from ......
  • Public Interest Immunity and Disclosure of Unused Materials in Criminal Proceedings
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Financial Crime No. 7-4, February 2000
    • 1 February 2000
    ...1 QB 669, Evans v Chief Constable of Surrey [1988] QB 588. (18) Conway v Rimmer [1968] AC 910, HL, Bunnah Oil Co. Ltd v Bank of England [1980] AC 1090, Air Canada v Secretary of State for Trade [1983] 2 AC 394. (19) It took seven years to extradite Osman to Hong Kong. (20) R v Governor of B......
  • CABINET IMMUNITY IN CANADA: THE LEGAL BLACK HOLE.
    • Canada
    • McGill Law Journal Vol. 63 No. 2, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...49-51. (99) [1968] AC 910 at 951-53, 958, [1968] 1 AU ER 874 (HL (Eng)) [Conway]. (100) See Burmah Oil Co Ltd v Bank of England (1979), [1980] AC 1090 at 1117, [1979] 3 AU ER 700 (HL (Eng)) [Burmah Oil]; Air Canada v Secretary of State for Trade, [1983] 2 AC 394 at 434-35, 439, [1983] 1 AU ......
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