County Personnel (Employment Agency) Ltd v Alan R Pulver & Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1986
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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153 cases
  • Downs v Chappell
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 3 Abril 1996
    ...15 However he went on to make findings on the issue of damages (p.20 e.s.). He quoted from the judgments of Bingham LJ in County Personnel v Pulver [1987] 1 WLR 916 and Staughton LJ in Hayes v Dodd [1990] 2 AER 815. He considered the argument of counsel for the Plaintiffs that the Plaintiff......
  • AW Group Ltd v Taylor Walton (A Firm)
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 29 Julio 2013
    ...advice if necessary. 163 I accept those submissions. There are two relevant authorities. The first is the case of County Personnel Limited v Alan R Pulver & Co Limited [1987] 1 WLR 916, a decision of the Court of Appeal. The headnote records that in exercising reasonable professional judgme......
  • Dickson v A and W M Urquhart
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session (Outer House)
    • Invalid date
  • Inventors Friend Ltd v Leathes Prior (A Firm)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 25 Marzo 2011
    ...a solicitor will be alert to risks which may elude the intelligent businessperson and must act on that knowledge: County Personnel (Employment Agency) Ltd v Pulver [1987] 1 WLR 916, 922D, per Bingham LJ. The fact is that there was a breach of duty in this regard in the incorporation of the ......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Lost Opportunity In The Downturn
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 30 Octubre 2012
    ...Mr Mallon's primary argument and assessed the loss in autumn 2008. He referred to the principles summarised in County Personnel v Pulver [1987] 1 WLR 916 including the overriding rule that the measure of damages is the sum of money which will put the injured party in the same position as he......
2 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Dissenting Judgments in the Law Preliminary Sections
    • 29 Agosto 2018
    ...AC 374, [1984] 1 WLR 1174, [1984] 3 All ER 935, HL 243, 245, 246, 247, 260 County Personnel (Employment Agency) Ltd v Alan R Pulver & Co [1987] 1 WLR 916, [1987] 1 All ER 289, [1986] 2 EGLR 246, CA 113 Curtice v London City & Midland Bank Ltd [1908] 1 KB 293, CA 180 Dampskibsselskabet Norde......
  • A Defence of Commercial Certainty in the Wake of Judicial Pragmatism Lord Bingham's Dissent in Golden Strait Corpn v Nippon Yusen Kubishika Kaisha (The Golden Victory) [2007] UKHL 12
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Dissenting Judgments in the Law Part II - Company and Commercial Law
    • 29 Agosto 2018
    ...n 21, at p 210; quoted by Lord Scott, at [30]. 35 Above, n 1, at [30]. 36 County Personnel (Employment Agency) Ltd v Alan R Pulver & Co [1987] 1 WLR 916. 37 Ibid, at p 926. 38 Above, n 1, at [38]. 39 Above, n 1, at [38]. 114 Part II – Company and Commercial Law It is clear that his Lordship......

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