Grunwald v Hughes
| Jurisdiction | Scotland |
| Date | 1965 |
| Year | 1965 |
| Court | Court of Session (Inner House - Second Division) |
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15 cases
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Preferred Mortgages Limited V. Robert Thomson Shanks+mark Robert Shanks+andrew F Dewar
...wrong", has been treated as the criterion for distinguishing when a joint and several conclusion is competent. [14] In Grunwald v Hughes, 1965 SLT 209, the pursuers had employed an architect to design and supervise structural alterations to the premises in which they carried on a restaurant......
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Persimmon Homes+charles Church Developments V. Bjr Realisations Limited+sean Donaghey
...Foundry & Engineering Company v John Lewis & Sons Limited 1917 SC 341, Fleming v McGillivray 1946 SC 1 and Grunwald v Hughes & Others 1965 SLT 209, Turnbull v Flame 1966 SLT 24. I do not think these cases are helpful. This is not an attempt to convene different defenders with different inte......
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Ruddy v Chief Constable, Strathclyde Police
...And joint and several liability may follow where two different breaches of contract have produced a common result: see Grunwald v Hughes 1965 SLT 209. 23 In Barr v Neilson (1868) 6 M 651 the pursuer raised an action against a husband and his wife conjunctly and severally or severally for on......
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Royal Brompton Hospital NHS Trust v Hammond (No. 3)
...It had already been held that the doctrine of joint and several liability applies in cases of breach of contract as well as in delict: Grunwald v Hughes, 1965 SLT 209. As Lord Justice-Clerk Grant put it, at p 211, the test is the same whether the action is based on delict or on contract. I......
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1 firm's commentaries
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Global Claims and Concurrency: Where Have We Got To And Where Are We Going?
...separate contract breakers cause 'one common result', they are jointly and severally liable to the pursuer: Grunwald v Hughes and Others (1965) SLT 209. This is no different from the law in England. However, in the Scottish case of McGillivray v Davidson (1993) SLT 693, it appears to have b......
1 books & journal articles
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Rights of relief, subrogation and unjustified enrichment in Scots law
...3 Macq 833; Br itish Railways Board v Ross and Cromarty County Council 1974 SLT 274 at 280; 1974 SC 27. Also cited was Grunwald v Hughes 1965 SLT 209. © Juta and Company (Pty) 504 PRIVATE LAW IN A CHANGING WORLDLord Ross also held that there is a ‘common obligation’ if the obligations are ‘......