Fairline Shipping Corporation v Adamson
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1974 |
| Date | 1974 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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Multiplex Construction Europe Ltd v Bathgate Realisations Civil Engineering Ltd (formerly known as Dunne Building and Civil Engineering Ltd) ((in Administration))
...assumed personal responsibility towards the prospective franchisees. An example of such a case being established is Fairline Shipping Corp. v. Adamson [1975] Q.B. 180. The plaintiffs sued the defendant, a director of a warehousing company, for the negligent storage of perishable goods. The ......
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BP Plc v AON Ltd and Aon Risk Services of Texas Inc.
...director assumed personal responsibility towards the prospective franchisees. An example of such a case being established is Fairline Shipping Corporation v. Adamson [1975] Q.B. 180. The plaintiffs sued the defendant, a director of a warehousing company, for the negligent storage of perisha......
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Standard Chartered Bank v Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (No. 2)
...out his duties for the company, assume a personal liability. An example where personal liability was assumed was Fairline Shipping Corporation v Adamson [1975] QB 180. A different conclusion was reached in Trevor Ivory Ltd v Adamson [1997] 2 NZLR 517. What amounts to such an assumption will......
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5 books & journal articles
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TORTIOUS ACTS AND DIRECTORS
...5Yuille v B & B Fisheries (Leigh) LtdUNK[1958] 2 Lloyd's Rep 596 at 619. 6[1932] AC 562. 7 See also Fairline Shipping Corp v AdamsonELR[1975] 1 QB 180 where the plaintiffs had agreed with a company that the plaintiffs' perishable goods would be stored in a refrigerated store belonging to th......
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Directors’‘Tortious’ Liability: Contract, Tort or Company Law?
...in Williams adopted thisapproach, and it is arguable that this was the approach taken by Kerr J in Fairline ShippingCorporation vAdamson [1975] QB 180.43 [1992] 2 NZLR 517, 526–527.44 Although dealing with a quite different question, Hardie Boys J’s conception of the doctrinalrelationship b......
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Case Comments: Directors' Co-liability for Delicts
...liability, thereby creating a special relationship between the plaintiff and himself (see Fairline Shipping Corporation v Adamson [1975] QB 180 (ChD)); or if he procured or induced another, the company, to commit the tort (Standard Chartered Bank v Pakistan National Shipping Corporation & O......
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Piercing the corporate veil – old metaphor, modern practice?
...obligation. So, for example, a person with a tort claim only, for example for personal injury or financial loss, might not be able 11 [1975] QB 180.12 Ebrahimi v Westbourne Galleries Ltd [1973] AC 360. A company is referred to as a quasi-partnership where, as held in this case, although mem......
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