E E Caledonia Ltd v Orbit Valve Plc

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1993
CourtQueen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
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25 cases
  • Capita (banstead 2011) Ltd (Formerly Known as Fps Group Ltd and Another v Rfib Group Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 2015
    ...the misconduct of Mr Le Cras after the Transfer Date. He derived considerable support from EE Caledonia Ltd v Orbit Value Co Europe [1994] 1 W.L.R. 221 (Hobhouse J) and 1515 (CA). In that case the operator of the Piper Alpha Platform sought to recover in respect of its liability to the esta......
  • Monarch Airlines Ltd v London Luton Airport Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 11 December 1996
    ... ... EE Caledonia Ltd v Orbit Valve plc [1994] CLC 647 ... Flamar Pride, TheUNK [1990] 1 ... ...
  • Barclays Bank Plc v Fairclough Building Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 6 May 1994
    ...Compania Naviera Maropan SIA v Bowaters Lloyd Pulp & Paper Mills LtdELR [1955] 2 QB 68. E E Caledonia Ltd v Orbit Valve Co EuropeWLR [1994] 1 WLR 221. Ellerman Lines Ltd v H&G Grayson LtdELR [1919] 2 KB 514. Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Southport CorpELR [1956] AC 218. Forsikringsaktieselskapet ......
  • Capita (Banstead 2011) Ltd and Another v RFIB Group Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 4 July 2014
    ...is to be found in the approach of Hobhouse J and the Court of Appeal to an indemnity clause in EE Caledonia Ltd v Orbit Valve Co Europe [1994] 1 WLR 221; [1994] 1 WLR 1515. In that case the operator of the Piper Alpha platform sought to recover in respect of its liability to the estate of ......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Indemnity In Share Purchase Agreement Only Covered Half The Loss
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • 16 March 2016
    ...intended that the clause should apply to losses caused by the claimant's negligence (applying EE Caledonia Ltd v Orbit Value Co Europe [1994] 1 WLR 221). The claimant's negligence in this case was that of the company employee (by this stage, the company was owned by the claimant). The indem......
2 books & journal articles
  • UNRAVELLING THE IDENTITY OF THE CARRIER
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1994, December 1994
    • 1 December 1994
    ...the apparent conflict arises mainly from the fact that the documents and the circumstances are different in different cases.” 116 [1993] 4 All E.R. 165. 117 Ibid., at 173j and 177e. Although his Lordship was referring to the established principle of construction applying to clauses attempti......
  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...the use of clear words showing that that was the intention of the contact’ (per Hobhouse J in E E Caledonia Ltd v Orbit Valve Co Europe[1994] 1 WLR 221 at 227). The second is the more familiar contra proferentum rule. 10.63 Applying the ‘inherently improbable’ principle, the essential quest......

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