Hobbs v Hobbs and Cousens

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1959
CourtProbate, Divorce and Admiralty Division
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22 cases
  • JP Morgan Multi-Strategy Fund LP v Macro Fund Ltd
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 30 May 2003
    ...Peat Properties Ltd. v. Fitzroy Robinson Partnership, [1987] 1 W.L.R. 1027; [1987] 2 All E.R. 716, referred to. (22) Hobbs v. Hobbs, [1960] P. 112; [1959] 3 All E.R. 827, dicta of Stevenson J. applied. (23) Hughes v. BiddulphENR(1827), 4 Russ. 190; 38 E.R. 777, referred to. (24) Istil Group......
  • Lee Victor Addlesee (and the others listed in the Schedule annexed to the Amended Claim Form) v Dentons Europe LLP
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 2 October 2019
    ...Lindley MR in Calcraft v Guest [1898] 1 QB 759, 761) “privilege attaches for all time and in all circumstances” (Stevenson J in Hobbs v Hobbs [1960] P 112, 116–117) 9 As Lord Taylor put it later in his speech: “… once any exception to the general rule is allowed, the client's confidence i......
  • JSC BTA Bank (Claimant) Mukhtar Ablyazov and Others (Defendants) Mukhtar Ablyazov and Others (Respondents)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 8 August 2014
    ...a clean breast of it" to the lawyer: see eg Anderson v Bank of British Columbia (1876) 2 Ch D 644, 649 per Sir George Jessel MR; Hobbs v Hobbs and Cousins [1960] P 112, 116–7 per Stevenson J. As Mr Béar pointed out, it is the potential "chilling effect" of any uncertainty over whether such......
  • R v Derby Magistrates' Court, ex parte B
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 22 June 1995
    ...I do not mean to say that privilege cannot be waived …" 55I may end with two more recent affirmations of the general principle. In Hobbs v. Hobbs [1960] P. 112, 116-117, Stevenson J. said: "Privilege has a sound basis in common sense. It exists for the purpose of ensuring that there shall ......
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5 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 11-4, October 2007
    • 1 October 2007
    ...v Ashrif 1988 SLT 567 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168HMA v Ward 1993 SCCR 595 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Hobbs v Hobbs and Cousens [1960] P 112 . . . 323Hodgkinson v Simms (1998) 33 BCLR (2d)129, CA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 53Holland v HM Advocate [20......
  • Litigation Privilege: Transient or Timeless? Blank v Canada (Minister of Justice)
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 11-4, October 2007
    • 1 October 2007
    ...in Blank [2006] 2 SCR 319 at [36].13 [1898] 1 QB 759 at 761. See also Bullock vCorry (1878) 3 QBD 356 at 358–9.14 Hobbs vHobbs and Cousens [1960] P 112 at that never took place.15 Nor does it matter that the client has died.16 The privilegewill continue for the benefit of the client’s succe......
  • The Politics of Neutrality and Defence: Finnish Security Policy Since the Early 1970s
    • United Kingdom
    • Cooperation and Conflict No. 17-3, November 1982
    • 1 November 1982
    ...1974, pp. 60- 1973, pp. 58-59. 61. 24 In a speech held in Moscow 24 November 11 J. K. Paasikivi, Paasikiuen linja (The Paa- 1960, cf. UPLA 1960, p. 112 and sikivi line) I, Puheita vuosilta 1944-1956, (1982), op. cit., p. 193. WSOY, Porvoo 1962, 25 p. 9. UPLA 1965, p. 123. The wording was no......
  • Facing Complexity: Democracy, Expertise and the Discovery Process
    • United Kingdom
    • Political Studies No. 58-4, October 2010
    • 1 October 2010
    ...and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contra-diction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the f‌ield of ideas (Hayek, 1960,p. 112).Interestingly, Hayek does envisage a role for philosophical expertise in developing andarticulating the case for liberty, the def‌ining pr incip......
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