Equitable Life Assurance Society v Hyman

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date21 January 2000
Date21 January 2000
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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  • Walker v Co-Operative Insurance
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • November 19, 2009
    ...[or included] internal bonuses as well.” 22 In support of this allegation, Mr Walker relied on the decision of the House of Lords in Equitable Life v Hyman [2002] 1 AC 408. The District Judge, the circuit judge and Sir Richard Buxton all thought that the decision of the House of Lords in th......
  • Halifax Life Ltd v Equitable Life Assurance Society
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • March 13, 2007
    ...I have made additions drawn from documents and other minor additions. 3 Following the decision of the House of Lords in Equitable Life Assurance Society v Hyman [2002] 1 AC 408; [2000] UKHL 39 in July 2000, The Equitable Life Assurance Society (“ELAS”), the defendant, announced that it was ......
  • AET Inc. Ltd v Arcadia Petroleum Ltd (The Eagle Valencia)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • October 8, 2009
    ...West Metropolitan Hospital Board [1973] 1 WLR 601, 609 per Lord Pearson, with whom Lord Guest and Lord Diplock agreed and Equitable Life Assurance Society v Hyman [2002] 1 AC 405, 459, where Lord Steyn said: “If a term is to be implied, it could only be a term implied from the language of [......
  • Cyril Lawrence Spencer and Another v The Secretary of State for Defence
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • February 2, 2012
    ...know what the reasonable person would know, merely that the information would reasonably have been available to him. 48 In Equitable Life Assurance Society v. Hyman [2002] 1 AC 408, Lord Steyn gave the leading speech in the House of Lords (with which Lord Hoffmann amongst others agreed). He......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Proportionality in counterinsurgency: a relational theory.
    • United States
    • Notre Dame Law Review Vol. 87 No. 3, February 2012
    • February 1, 2012
    ...Miller, A Theory of Fiduciary Liability, 56 McGILL L.J. (forthcoming 2011). (70) See, e.g., Equitable Life Assurance Soc'y v. Hyman, [2000] 2 All E.R. 331 (C.A.), aff'd, [2002] 1 A.C. 408 (H.L.) (71) See, e.g., Fox-Decent, supra note 66; Fox-Decent & Criddle, supra note 66. (72) See IMM......
  • ‘An academic ombudsman’
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance No. 9-1, January 2001
    • January 1, 2001
    ...Social Security Act 2000. (73) A nicely technical illustration, not concern-ing me, occurs with Equitable Life Assurance Society v Hyman [2000] 2 WLR 798 HL concerning guaranteed annuity rates offered but regretted by insurers. Two strictly Chancery Division judges sup-ported the Equitable:......

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