Candler v Crane, Christmas & Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal
Year1951
Date1951

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  • Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 28 May 1963
    ...enquirer which requires him to exercise such care as the circumstances require. 23If that is right, then it must follow that Candler v. Crane, Christmas & Co. [1951] 2 K.B. 164 was wrongly decided. There the plaintiff wanted to see the accounts of a company before deciding to invest in it.......
  • R Rama Chandran v Industrial Court of Malaysia and Another
    • Malaysia
    • Federal Court (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Ho v Minister for Justice and Others
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 13 June 2012
    ...5.8 J (O) & J (T) (MINORS) v REFUGEE APPLICATIONS CMSR & ORS 2010 3 IR 637 2010/24/5929 2010 IEHC 176 CANDLER v CRANE CHRISTMAS & CO 1951 2 KB 164 1951 1 AER 426 CONSTITUTION ART 35.2 M'ALISTER (ORSE DONOGHUE) v STEVENSON 1932 AC 562 1932 SC (HL) 31 1932 SLT 317 KENNEDY v KILLEEN CORRUGATE......
  • Caparo Industries Plc v Dickman
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 8 February 1990
    ...of the wrong turning taken by the law in Le Lievre v. Gould [1893] 1 Q.B. 491 in overruling Cann v. Willson, 39 Ch. D. 39. In Candler v. Crane, Christmas & Co. [1951] 2 K.B. 164, Denning L.J., in his dissenting judgment, made a valiant attempt to correct the error. But it was not until t......
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6 books & journal articles
  • Mandatory sentencing for people smuggling: issues of law and policy.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 36 No. 2, August 2012
    • 1 August 2012
    ...and Hayne JJ). (326) Baker v The Queen (2004) 223 CLR 513, 519 [6] (Gleeson CJ). (327) See, eg, Candler v Crane, Christmas & Co [1951] 2 KB 164, 178 (Denning LJ); Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd [1970] AC 1004, 1032 (Lord Reid); Williams v New York, 127 NE 2d 545, 550 (Froessel J) (NY......
  • Table of Cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Large-Scale Claims Interjurisdictional Dimensions
    • 15 June 2005
    ...1021, 91 D.L.R. (4th) 289 .................................................................... 17 Candler v. Crane, Christmas & Co [1951] 2 K.B. 164 (C.A.) ................................ 128 Cannon Mfg. Co. v. Cudahy Packing Co., 267 U.S. 333, 45 S. Ct. 250 (1925) .... 306 Caparo Industri......
  • Causes of Action in Mass Tort
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Large-Scale Claims Sources of Liability
    • 15 June 2005
    ...statement at issue was made. 95 94 [1978] A.C. 728 (H.L.) [hereinafter Anns ]. 95 See, for example: Candler v. Crane, Christmas & Co ., [1951] 2 K.B. 164 at 181–82 and 184 (C.A.) per Denning L.J. (dissenting); Hedley Byrne , supra note 92; Caparo Industries plc. v. Dickman , [1990] 1 All E.......
  • A pandora's box in Commonwealth Caribbean pubic law: the approach of the caribbean court of justice to the doctrine of legitimate expectation
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 17-1/2, June 2007
    • 1 June 2007
    ...justice in the instant case before him. He need not wait for the legislature to intervene: because that can never be of any help in 49 [1951] 2 KB 164, at 178. Asquith LJ is alleged to have said in response: I am not concerned with defending the existing state of the law or contending that ......
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