Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company Ltd v Selfridge & Company Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Judgment Date | 26 April 1915 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1915] UKHL J0426-1 |
| Date | 26 April 1915 |
[1915] UKHL J0426-1
House of Lords
Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company, Limited
and
Selfridge and Company, Limited.
1
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants, as well on Tuesday the 23d, as Thursday the 25th, days of March last, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company, Limited, of 14 Regent Street, in the City of Westminster, praying, that the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 22d of January 1914, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament, and that the...
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...as when he is seeking to enforce the maintenance of prices to the public disadvantage, as in Dualop v. Selfridge & Co., 1915 A.C. 847 at p. 853: or when he is seeking to rely, not on any right given to him by the contract, but on an exemption clause seeking to exempt himself from his ju......
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...which is, I suppose, as well established as any in our law, a "fundamental" principle, as Lord Haldane called it in Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co., Ltd. v. Selfridge & Co. Ltd. [1915] A.C. 847, an "elementary" principle, as it has been called times without number, that only a person who is a pa......
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...the law on penalties for the first time since the House of Lords case of Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v New Garage & Motor Co. Ltd [1915] A.C. 847 a century ago. In both cases, the Supreme Court held that the clauses were valid and enforceable, overturning the Court of Appeal's decision......
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