Foster v Driscoll ; Lindsay v Attfield ; Lindsay v Driscoll
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
| Date | 1929 |
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95 cases
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JSC Zestafoni G Nikoladze Ferroalloy Plant and Others v Ronly Holdings Ltd
...for shipment to South Africa which would be contrary to the law of India. The application by the House of Lords of the reasoning in Foster v. Driscoll [1929] 1 KB 470 to the facts in Regazzoni turned substantially on the fact that the underlying illegality involved was the carrying out of a......
- ABDA Airfreight Sdn Bhd v Sistem Penerbangan Malaysia Bhd
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Regazzoni v K. C. Sethia (1944) Ltd
...in a foreign and friendly State which violates the law of that State. For this they cite the authority of the well known case of Foster v. Driscoll and Others [1929] 1 K.B. 470, and much of the debate in this House has been whether that case was rightly decided, and if so whether it is dist......
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Sheagar s/o T M Veloo v Belfield International (HongKong) Ltd
...the HKMLO. The Appellant’s pleaded case was based on the principle of international comity established in Foster v Driscoll and others [1929] 1 KB 470 (“Foster”). Sankey LJ explained the principle in the following terms: ..an English contract should and will be held invalid on account of il......
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1 firm's commentaries
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Enforceability Of English Arbitration Agreements And A Cautionary Tale On SAFE Registration In China
...foreign exchange control law. Separability of arbitration agreements Jianlong's case, relying on the decision of Foster v. Driscoll [1929] 1 KB 470, was that an English law contract will not be enforceable if the common intention of the parties was to perform in a foreign-friendly country, ......
7 books & journal articles
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CONTRACTUAL ILLEGALITY AND CONFLICT OF LAWS
...115, a decision of the Court of Exchequer Chamber. 12 Ibid., at 129. 13 By reason of the operation of the rule in Foster v. Driscoll[1929] 1 K.B. 470 and the rule in Ralli Brothers v. Compania Naviera Sota y Aznar[1920] 2 K.B. 287. 14 Chapter 97, 1990 Edition. 15 See Amalgamated Steel Mills......
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Contract Law
...case just mentioned has been conflated with that embodied within yet another (not unproblematic) English decision, viz, Foster v Driscoll[1929] 1 KB 470. Significantly, perhaps, the Singapore Court of Appeal had, in its recent decision in Peh Teck Quee v Bayerische Landesbank Girozentrale[2......
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Contract Law
...Bv [2002] EWCA Civ 15. 86 [2016] 3 SLR 361. 87 Cap 178, 1985 Rev Ed. 88 [2016] SGHC 114. 89 [2016] 5 SLR 719. 90 [1999] 3 SLR(R) 842. 91 [1929] 1 KB 470. 92 Ralli Brothers v Compania Naviera Sota y Aznar [1920] 2 KB 287. 93 Peh Teck Quee v Bayerische Landesbank Girozentrale [1999] 3 SLR(R) ......
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RESTITUTION, FOREIGN ILLEGALITY AND FOREIGN MONEYLENDERS
...purely on factual grounds in the Kartika case, supra, note 31, at 273—275. 33 See Palmer, supra, note 17, at 72. 34 Ibid. 35 [1929] 1 KB 470. 36 The Court of Appeal cited Rajah J’s judgment in Patriot Pte Ltd v Lam Hong Commercial Co[1980] 1 MLJ 135, which, though Foster v Driscoll was also......
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