Foster v Driscoll ; Lindsay v Attfield ; Lindsay v Driscoll
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1929 |
| Year | 1929 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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83 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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Ajt v Aju
...(refd) Denmark Skibstekniske Konsulenter A/S I Likvidation v Ultrapolis 3000 Investments Ltd [2010] 3 SLR 661 (refd) Foster v Driscoll [1929] 1 KB 470 (folld) Kamini Kumar Basu v Birendra Nath BasuAIR 1930 PC 100 (folld) Kaufman v Gerson [1904] 1 KB 591 (distd) Lemenda Trading Co Ltd v Afri......
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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, ......
14 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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Choice-of-law Agreements in International Contracts
...§ 8.02(2)(a) (apparently omitting requirements).245. Regazzoni v. KC Sethia Ltd. [1958] AC 301 (H.L.). See also Foster v. Driscoll [1929] 1 KB 470 (English Ct. App.) (refusal to enforce contract for import of alcohol into United States during Prohibition).246. Id. at 318-19. The case involv......
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‘From Rome to Rome’ – Cross-border employment contract. European Private International Law: Intertemporal law and foreign overriding mandatory laws
...inspired by the common law approach, notably the case law of the English courts (forexample the judgment in (UK) Foster v. Driscoll, [1929] 1 KB 470) which is based on the assumption that, not havingregard to foreign overriding mandatory provisions can sometimes result in a breach of the pu......
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Illegality
...Co , [1988] QB 448 [ Lemenda Trading ]. 125 Neville v Dominion of Canada News Co Ltd , [1915] 3 KB 556. 126 Foster v Driscoll , [1929] 1 KB 470. See also Shiesel v Kirsch , [1931] OR 41 (CA); Regazzoni v KC Sethia (1944) Ltd , [1958] AC 301 (HL); Royal Boskalis Westminster NV v Mountain , [......
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