Constantine v Imperial Hotels Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1944
Year1944
CourtKing's Bench Division

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13 cases
  • F v Metropolitan Borough of Wirral DC and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • May 18, 1990
    ...2 E. & B. 216; the plaintiff's right to be admitted to an inn was actionable without proof of pecuniary damage in Constantine v. Imperial Hotels [1944] 2 All E.R. 171. Interference with a statutory duty imposed on a third party giving corresponding rights to the plaintiff were held acti......
  • Ian Lunan v Rohan Sudine
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • October 23, 2015
    ...of $30,000.00, for same, with no interest thereon. Similar approaches have been adopted by English courts, in other cases. See: Constantine v Imperial Hotels Ltd. — [1944] KB 693and Erie County Natural Gas and Fuel Co. Ltd. v Carroll— [1911] AC 105. 73 In the circumstances, the claimant's ......
  • Cosgrove v Ireland
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • January 1, 1982
    ...they were employed to obtain. 6 I have also read the judgment of Birkett, J., in the case of Constantine v. Imperial Hotels Limited (1944) K.B. 693. This was a case brought by a traveller against an innkeeper who had wrongfully refused to receive and lodge him. The issue related to the rig......
  • Liam Grant v Roche Products (Ireland) Ltd and Others
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • May 27, 2005
    ...of contract: Marzetti v Williams (1830) 1B & AD. They can be awarded in torts actionable per se: Constantine v Imperial London Hotels (1944) KB 693 which concerned refusal by a hotel to receive a guest. Thus the Courts can vindicate a right by an award of nominal damages the main object of ......
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6 books & journal articles
  • Muslims, Ethnicity and the Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Discrimination and the Law No. 4-4, December 2000
    • December 1, 2000
    ...the enactment of the RRA (1965). See, Allen v Flood (1898) 1 AC 172; Sealey v Tandy (1902) I KB 296; Constantine v Imperial Hotels Ltd (1944) 1 KB 693; Scala Ballroom (Wolverhampton) Ltd. v Ratcliffe (1958) 3 All ER 220, 377 CA. In the words of Lord Simon in Applin v Race Relations Board [1......
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Saggerson on Travel Law and Litigation - 7th Edition Contents
    • August 30, 2022
    ...v RTZ Corporation Plc [1997] UKHL 30, [1998] AC 584, [1997] 3 WLR 373, [1997] 4 All ER 335 9.24 Constantine v Imperial Hotels Limited [1944] 1 KB 693, [1944] 2 All ER 171, KBD 8.19, 8.42 Cook v Virgin Media Limited [2015] EWCA Civ 1287, [2016] 1 WLR 1672, [2016] CP Rep 16, [2016] ILPr 6, [2......
  • Hotels
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Saggerson on Travel Law and Litigation - 7th Edition Contents
    • August 30, 2022
    ...A Concise Guide to the Law of Inns and Innkeepers , Northumbria Law Press, Newcastle, at p 36. 23 See Constantine v Imperial Hotels Ltd [1944] 1 KB 693, in which Birkett J deplored an attempt by a hotel to exclude a black West Indian cricketer – any traveller has the right to be received by......
  • The gay cake controversy in the United Kingdom and Italian inertia
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law No. 29-6, December 2022
    • December 1, 2022
    ...al pubblico e divieto di discriminazione.108. Regarding English and Welsh Law, see for instance: Constantine v. Imperial Hotels Ltd [1944] KB 693. An analogousreasoning is in the text of the Civil Code (Italy), Royal Decree No. 262/1942, Article 2597.109. See Royal Decree No. 1706/1938, Art......
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