Chesworth v Farrar
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1966 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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7 cases
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Chip Hup Hup Kee Construction Pte Ltd v Yeow Chern Lean
...and therefore should not be subject to the time bar of six years applicable to torts, relying on the case of Chesworth v Farrar [1967] 1 QB 407 (“Chesworth”). It also pointed out that Lai J had considered and dismissed Yeow’s arguments on time bar in Suit 136 (at [129]–[133] of Neo Kok Eng ......
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Forsyth-Grant v Allen
...Lord Nicholls in Blake confined himself in terms to cases of breach of contract. The law relating to tort, Mr Ley says, is set out in Chesworth v Farrar [1967] 1 QB 417, in which Edmund-Davies J, in an action for damages against a bailee, refers at page 417 to a person against whom a tort i......
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Tito v Waddell (No. 2); Tito v Attorney General; Ocean Island (No. 2)
...A.R.T.S. Ltd. [1949] 1 K.B. 550; [1949] 1 All E.R. 465, C.A.Bulli Coal Mining Co. v. Osborne [1899] A.C. 351, P.C.Chesworth v. Farrar [1967] 1 Q.B. 407; [1966] 2 W.L.R. 1073; [1966] 2 All E.R. 107.Jegon v. Vivian (1871) 6 Ch.App. 742.King v. Victor Parsons & Co. [1973] 1 W.L.R. 29; [1973] 1......
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Esben Finance Ltd and others v Wong Hou-Lianq Neil
...language” (at [22]). In reaching this conclusion, he rejected the reasoning in the English High Court decision of Chesworth v Farrar [1967] 1 QB 407 (“Chesworth”). In Chesworth, Edmund Davies J (as he then was) held that a claim for money had and received to recover the proceeds from the sa......
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5 books & journal articles
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Change of position and restitution for wrongs: 'ne'er the twain shall meet'?
...1, 17-18 (Viscount Simon LC), 29 (Lord Atkin), 34 (Lord Romer). Cf Lamine v Dorrell (1701) 2 Ld Raym 1216; 92 ER 303; Chesworth v Farrar [1967] 1 QB 407. The fiction that was rejected was the idea that a plaintiff suing for conversion could either claim compensation for the plaintiff's loss......
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Restitution
...of the commission of the tort (G Virgo, The Principles of the Law of Restitution (2nd Ed, 2006) at pp 752—753), but in Chesworth v Farrer[1967] 1 QB 407, the alternative claim in money had and received was treated as analogous to contract and subject to the contractual limitation period. Ch......
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THE USER PRINCIPLE
...Ltd[1998] QB 87. 112 Andrew Burrows, The Law of Restitution (Oxford University Press, 3rd Ed, 2011) at pp 703–704. CfChesworth v Farrar[1967] 1 QB 407. 113 In this context, the divergence in approaches in Benedetti v Sawiris[2013] UKSC 50; [2014] AC 938 will prove significant: the majority ......
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MORALLY BLAMELESS WRONGDOERS AND THE CHANGE OF POSITION DEFENCE
...was permitted by a court to gain an advantage by electing to sue in assumpsit appears to have been over 50 years ago in Chesworth v Farrar[1967] QB 407. 10 See Attorney General v Blake[2001] 1 AC 268, Forsyth-Grant v Allen[2008] 2 EGLR 16; [2008] EWCA Civ 505 and Devenish Nutrition Ltd v Sa......
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