Cohen v Rothfield

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1919
Year1919
CourtCourt of Appeal
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31 cases
  • Sabah Gas Industries Sdn Bhd v Trans Samudera Lines (S) Sdn Bhd
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1993
  • Mike Trading and Transport Ltd v R Pagnan & Fratelli (Lisboa)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 July 1980
    ...foreign proceedings, and the injunction should not normally be granted unless the foreign proceedings are vexatious or oppressive (see Cohen v. Rothfield (1919) at page 410 per Lord Justice Scrutton, and Castanho v. Brown & Root (U. K..) Ltd. (1980) 1 Weekly Law Reports 833. This is so even......
  • Kallang Shipping SA Panama v Axa Assurances Senegal (The Kallang), (Kallang, The)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 19 November 2008
    ...foreign proceedings, and the injunction should not normally be granted unless the foreign proceedings are vexatious or oppressive (see Cohen v. Rothfield, [1919] 1 K.B. 410 per Lord Justice Scrutton, and Castanho v. Brown & Root (U.K.) Ltd., [1980] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 423; [1980] 1 W.L.R. 833......
  • Bank of Tokyo Ltd v Karoon (Note)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 May 1984
    ...from the foreign procedure which he could not obtain in the English court (see in particular Hyman v. Helm (1883) 24 Ch. D. 531, and Cohen v. Rothfield (1919) 1 K.B. 410). That criterion was very rarely fulfilled: for examples where it was fulfilled see Armstrong v. Armstrong (1892) P. 98......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Limitations of Access at the National Level: Forum Non Conveniens
    • United States
    • Gonzaga University School of Law Gonzaga Journal of International Law No. 9-2, June 2005
    • Invalid date
    ...A.C. at 474 (citing Sim v. Robinow, [1892] Sess. Cas. (R.) 665, 668 (Scot. 1st Div.). [18]. Id. at 476. [19]. Cohen v. Rothfield, [1919] 1 K.B. 410, 413-414 (U.K.). [20]. St. Pierre v. South Am. Stores (Gath & Chaves) Ltd., [1936] 1 K.B. 382, 398. [21]. The Atlantic Star, [1974] A.C. 436. [......
  • The Recognition and Enforcement of Wills and Successions in the European Union - Brussels Ill?
    • Ireland
    • Trinity College Law Review No. VII-2004, January 2004
    • 1 January 2004
    ...she survived her husband, the property went to the beneficiaries of the husband and not to her. Today, "3 See Orr-Lewis v. Orr-Lewis [1919] 1 KB 410, at 414, comments of Scrutton L.J.; "Where the plaintiff in the foreign action is not plaintiff, but defendant, in the English action, the cas......

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