Harris v Taylor

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1915
CourtCourt of Appeal
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39 cases
  • WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 13 May 2002
    ...337 (distd) Dulles' Settlement (No 2), Re [1951] Ch 842; [1951] 2 All ER 69 (folld) Hammond v Wolt [1975] VR 108 (refd) Harris v Taylor [1915] 2 KB 580 (distd) Henry v Geoprosco International Ltd [1976] QB 726; [1975] 2 All ER 702 (distd) Lobb Partnership Ltd v Aintree Racecourse Co Ltd [20......
  • Daarnhouwer & Company, Handelmaats, N.v v Boulos
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • Invalid date
  • DYC Fishing Ltd v Perla del Caribe Inc.
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 24 June 2014
    ...of the loan from Perla; it was a party to an agreement that the claim for profits for 2000 to 2001 was outstanding. The cases of Harris v Taylor [1915) 2 KB 580 and Henry v Geopresco International Ltd [1915] 2 All ER 702 were cited to bolster a submission that DYC had submitted voluntarily ......
  • AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP v Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 May 2011
    ...the court had a discretion whether or not to set aside service. Following the earlier and notorious decision of the Court of Appeal in Harris v. Taylor [1915] 2 KB 580, the Court held that the employer, by asking the Canadian court to exercise a discretion, had submitted to the jurisdictio......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive Conflict of Laws
    • 8 September 2010
    ...(3d) 377, [1995] A.J. No. 347 (Q.B.) ............................................................................ 408 Harris v. Taylor, [1915] 2 K.B. 580 (C.A.) .......................................................... 165 Harrods v. Dow Jones & Co. Inc., [2003] EWHC 1162 (Q.B.).................
  • Foreign sovereign immunity in the caribbean: a case for legislative intervention
    • United States
    • Georgetown Journal of International Law No. 53-1, October 2021
    • 1 October 2021
    ...jurisdiction on appeal and, therefore, he was disentitled to a stay of proceedings as he had waived his immunity). 157. Harris v. Taylor [1915] 2 KB 580, ¶ 2 (Eng.) (interpreting Denning L.J. in Re Dulles Settlement Trusts as suggesting that someone could be taken to have “voluntarily submi......
  • Conflict of Laws
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2002, December 2002
    • 1 December 2002
    ...for recognition. The defendant relied on Williams & Glyn”s Bank plc v Astro Dinamico Compania Naviera SA[1984] 1 WLR 438, Harris v Taylor[1915] 2 KB 580 and Henry v Geoprosco International Ltd[1976] QB 726 and argued that the plaintiff, by objecting to the jurisdiction of the Colombo High C......
  • "After the storm: the impact of the financial crisis on private international law": jurisdiction.
    • Canada
    • University of New Brunswick Law Journal No. 60, January 2010
    • 1 January 2010
    ...to the jurisdiction of the foreign court so that a resulting default judgment was enforceable. For example, consider Harris v. Taylor, [1915] 2 K.B. 580 and Henry v. Geoprosco International Ltd., [1976] Q.B. 726. Modern rules of court now permit a defendant served ex juris to move to set as......

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