Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | The Lord Chancellor,Lord Atkin,Lord Russell of Killowen,Lord Macmillan,Lord Wright,Lord Roche,Lord Porter |
| Judgment Date | 15 June 1942 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1942] UKHL J0615-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 15 June 1942 |
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...s. 1(2). 24 Ibid, s. 1(2). 25 Ibid, s. 1(2). 26 Ibid, s. 1(3). 27 See e.g. Fibros S polka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd [1943] AC 32, in which an English company agreed in 1939 to sell machinery to a Polish company and to deliver it to Gdynia, which became illegal when that p......
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...10. Alliance Concrete Singapore Pte Ltd v Sato Kogyo (S) Pte Ltd [2014] 3 SLR 857. 11. Fibrosa SA v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd [1943] AC 32. 12. Frustrated Contracts Act 1978 (NSW), Frustrated Contracts Act 1988 (SA); Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012 Clive CachiaPhi......
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...Its main purpose, the judge found, 41 Ibid, s. 1(3). 42 See, for example,. Fibros Spolka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd [1943] AC 32, in which an English company agreed in 1939 to sell machinery to a Polish company and to deliver it to Gdynia, which became illegal when that po......
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Do The Innocent Get Compensation After MOE Orders?
...100.1. Fairness should not be irrelevant in environmental law. Footnotes Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v. Fairbain Lawson Combe, Barbour Ltd., [1943] A.C. 32; 111 L.J.K.B. 433 (H.L.) at p. 61. This dictum has been approved in many Canadian decisions, including Deglman v. Guaranty Trust, [1954] S.C......
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34 books & journal articles
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RE-EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUTUAL PROMISES IN CONTRACT LAW.
...for counter-performance and a promisee's bargain for counter-promise is articulated in Fibrosa SA v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd [1943] AC 32, 48 (Viscount Simon (40) The most detailed discussion is found in Peel (n 37) 911-12 [17-020]-[17-023] and Carter, Carter's Breach of Contract ......
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Change of position and restitution for wrongs: 'ne'er the twain shall meet'?
...wrongs and change of position are concerned, 'verily the twain do meet'. (1) Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd [1943] AC 32, 61-2 (Lord Wright); Deglman v Guaranty Trust Co of Canada [1954] SCR 725, 728-9 (Rand J for Rinfret CJ, Taschereau and Rand JJ), 734 (Cartwr......
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Table of cases
...29 Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd (1942), [1943] AC 32, [1942] 2 All ER 122, 111 LJKB 433 (HL) ............................................................................... 284, 290 Fidler v Sun Life Assurance Co of Canada, [2006] 2 SCR 3, 271 DLR (4th) 1, [20......
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Awards Measured by Benefit: Restitution
...PA: American Law Institute, 2000–2006) at § 1 [ Restatement (Third) ]. 11 Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd , [1943] AC 32 at 61 (HL) [ Fibrosa ]. 12 [1978] 2 SCR 436 [ Rathwell ]. 13 [1980] 2 SCR 834 [ Pettkus ]. 14 See also Sorochan v Sorochan , [1986] 2 SCR 38 [......
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