Director General of Fair Trading v First National Bank Plc

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date30 July 1999
Date30 July 1999
CourtChancery Division

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7 cases
  • The Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National Plc and 7 Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 24 April 2008
    ...a term (although I observe in passing that it reflects the approach of Evans-Lombe J at first instance in the First National Bank case, [2000] 1 WLR 98 at p.103C-E), and it would be a narrowing of the test if the position of the typical consumer were considered to the exclusion of that of ......
  • Director General of Fair Trading v First National Bank Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 25 October 2001
    ...it was unfair. The bank resisted the Director's application on two grounds. The first, rejected by Evans-Lombe J at first instance ( [2000] 1 WLR 98) and the Court of Appeal (Peter Gibson, Waller and Buxton L JJ) ( [2000] QB 672), was that the fairness provisions of the regulations did no......
  • Office of Fair Trading v Foxtons Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 10 July 2009
    ...Director's claim was for an injunction and there was no supporting or additional claim to declaratory relief. 12322. At first instance ( [2000] 1 WLR 98) the claim failed and no injunction was granted. In the Court of Appeal ( [2000] QB 672) the claim succeeded in part. The Court of Appeal ......
  • Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National Plc and Others (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 November 2009
    ...before any judgment (such obligation to be independent of and not to merge with the judgment)". At first instance Evans-Lombe J held ( [2000] 1 WLR 98) that the term was a default term and not (as the bank's counsel had submitted) a "core term" within Regulation 3(2) of the 1994 Regulations......
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