Collier v P & M J Wright (Holdings) Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLady Justice Arden,Lord Justice Longmore,Lord Justice Mummery
Judgment Date14 December 2007
Neutral Citation[2007] EWCA Civ 1329
Docket NumberCase No: A2/2007/0923
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Date14 December 2007
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  • Town & Country Properties (GB) Ltd v Black Capital (an Unregistered Company)
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 17 November 2022
    ...using different wording or expressions. However I will set out certain passages from the decision of Lady Justice Arden in Collier v P & MJ Wright (Holdings) Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 1329. That case involved an application to set aside a statutory demand and therefore it demonstrates clearly th......
  • Harrington Scott Ltd v Coupe Bradbury Solicitors Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 29 September 2022
    ...[2020] EWCA 2349 Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi [2015] UKSC 67, [2016] AC 1172 Collier v P & M J Wright (Holdings) Limited [2007] EWCA Civ 1329, [2008] 1 WLR 643 Crema v Cenkos Securities Plc [2010] EWCA Civ 1444, [2011] Bus LR 943 D & C Builders Ltd v Rees [1966] 2 QB Durham ......
  • CF Partners (UK) LLP v Barclays Bank Plc and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 24 September 2014
    ...Ltd [1947] KB 130, applied by him in Brikom Investments Ltd v Carr [1979] 1 QB 467 and affirmed by the Court of Appeal in Collier v P & MJ Wright (Holdings) Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 1329), I can adopt the following passage from Snell's Equity, 32 nd ed. at 12-009: "Where by his words or conduct ......
  • Ramesh Philippe Dusoruth v Orca Finance UK Ltd ((in Liquidation))
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 16 September 2022
    ...but may reject evidence that is inherently implausible or contradicted, or not supported, by contemporaneous documents (see Collier v P & M J Wright (Holdings) Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 1329 at paragraph 21, per Arden 34 The court must take a realistic approach to the assessment of the merits an......
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6 books & journal articles
  • Dispute resolution
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume III - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...in the works. 241 235 D&C Builders Ltd v Rees [1966] 2 QB 617 at 624–625, per Lord Denning MR; Collier v P & M J Wright (Holdings) Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 1329. As to estoppel, see Chapter 20. 236 As opposed to one which is undisputed. 237 If, in such a case, the settlement agreement provides t......
  • Contract formation
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume I - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...[HCA]; Williams v Rofey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd [1991] 1 QB 1 at 11, per Glidewell LJ; Collier v P&M J Wright (Holdings) Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 1329 at [2]–[6], per Arden LJ; Rainforest Trading Ltd v State Bank of India Singapore [2012] SGCA 21 at [30] and [33]–[40]; SAS Realty Devel......
  • Consideration and Form
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Enforceability
    • 4 August 2020
    ...B(3), above in this chapter. 215 Above note 176. 216 [1995] 2 All ER 531 (CA). Compare with Collier v P & MJ Wright (Holdings) Ltd , [2008] 1 WLR 643 (CA) [ Collier ], in which Arden LJ expressed support for the view that the doctrine of promissory estoppel may preclude enforcement of a deb......
  • Waiver and Promissory Estoppel
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Enforceability
    • 4 August 2020
    ..., there have been recent expressions of judicial opinions to the contrary. See, for example, Collier v P & MJ Wright (Holdings) Ltd , [2008] 1 WLR 643 (CA), in which Arden LJ accepted that “the brilliant obiter dictum of Denning J . . . in the High Trees case” would extinguish the debt in a......
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