Ellis v Torrington
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1920 |
| Year | 1920 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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56 cases
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Camdex International Ltd v Bank of Zambia
...the new owner of the property. (Indeed, normally, the legal owner will be the only person entitled to exercise those legal rights.) In Ellis v Torrington [1920] 1 KB 399 at 410 Scrutton LJ succinctly summa-rised the position: "[The courts] treated debts as property, and the necessity of an ......
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SPV Osus Ltd v HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Ireland) Ltd
...the assignment. There is in my opinion nothing resembling maintenance or champerty in the deed of assignment.' 41 Ellis v. Torrington [1920] 1 K.B. 399 is a somewhat complicated case following Williams v. Protheroe (1829) 3 Y. & J. 129 and Dawson v. Great Northern and City Railway Co. [19......
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Simpson v Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust
...by the assignment acquired a property right and the cause of action was incidental to that right, the assignment was held effective. Ellis v. Torrington [1920] 1 K.B. 399 is an example of such a case. Scrutton L.J. stated, at pp. 412–413, that the assignee was not guilty of maintenance or ......
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Barbados Trust Company v Bank of Zambia
...further emphasised that such a debt was a species of property, even if it required litigation to “reduce it into possession” (see Ellis v. Torrington [1920] 1 KB 399 at 411, per Scrutton LJ, cited by Hobhouse LJ in Camdex International Ltd v. Bank of Zambia [1998] QB 22 at 32G/H). 68 So far......
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2 books & journal articles
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The Trendtex Principle in Australian Law: Context and Recent Developments
...LJ agreed)); County Hotel and Wine Co Ltd v London and North Western Railway Co [1918] 2 KB 251, 261 (McCardie J); Ellis v Torrington [1920] 1 KB 399, 411 (Scrutton LJ); Re Daley; Ex parte National Australia Bank Ltd (1992) 8 ACSR 395; 37 FCR 390, ACSR 400 (Heerey J); Camdex International L......
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Litigation Funding, Assignment of Actions and Access to Justice: SPV Osus v HSBC [2018] IESC 44
...(Clarke CJ). 33 Williams v Protheroe (1829) 3 Y&J 129; Dawson v Great Northern and City Railway Co [1905] 1 KB 260; Ellis v Torrington [1920] 1 KB 399. In those cases, causes of action which were assigned pursuant to transfers of property were upheld. See also Simpson v Norfolk and Norwich ......