Davies v Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries (No. 2)
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | Lord Russell of Killowen,Lord Macmillan,Lord Wright,Lord Porter |
| Judgment Date | 27 April 1942 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1942] UKHL J0427-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 27 April 1942 |
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Singapore Airlines Ltd v Tan Shwu Leng and another appeal
...or (3) had for these or other reasons made a wholly erroneous estimate of the damages: see Davies v Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries [1942] AC 601 per Lord Wright.The position taken by the first defendant was that the principles applicable to an appeal from the High Court to the Court o......
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Civil Procedure
...reasons made a wholly erroneous estimate of the damages. This test was set out in Davies v Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries, Limited[1942] AC 601 and was accepted and applied in Singapore by the Court of Appeal in Chow Khai Hong v Tham Sek Khow[1992] 1 SLR 4, Lim Hwee Meng v Citadel Inv......
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AN APPEAL
...if it decides to interfere at all with the Judges award. See Flint v. Lovell (1935) 1 K.B. 354 and Davies v. Powell D Collieries Ltd. (1942) A.C. 601." - Per Ogwuegbu, J.S.C. in Sabru Motors Ltd. v Rajab Ent. Ltd. Suit No. S.C. 116/1997; (2002) 7 N.W.L.R. (Pt. 766) 243 at...
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ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES IN FATAL ACCIDENT CASES
...Acts 1846-1908. With reference to the English Acts, Lord Wright suggested in Davies v. Powell Duffrym Associated Collieries Ltd. (1942) A.C. 601, the following text regarding the mode of assessment of damages, at p. 617: "There is no question here of what may be called sentimental damages, ......