Hubbard, Demerara Bauxite Company v

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1923
Year1923
Date1923
CourtPrivy Council
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  • O'Neil Creese (Representative of the Estate of Benjamin Morgan, deceased) Claimant v Kelvin Joslyn Defendant [ECSC]
    • St Vincent
    • High Court (Saint Vincent)
    • 16 September 2008
    ...similar positions." Learned Counsel also referred the Court to the decision of the Privy Council inDemerara Bauxite Company Ltd v Hubbard [1923] A.C. 673 [1923] A.C. 673 at 681 – 682. The Demerara Bauxite case is distinguishable from the present case, in the Demerara Bauxite case the relati......
  • Frankson (Barrington) v Monica Longmore
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 2 December 2000
    ...influence may exist so as to set aside a transaction. As illustrative he referred to Demerara Bauxite Co. Ltd.v Louis Hubbard & Others (1923) A.C. 673 and McMaster v Byrne (1952) 1 All E.R. 1362. The law applicable argued Mr Macaulay is contained in section 21 of the Legal Profession Act. N......
  • Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA v Aboody
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 November 1988
    ...delivering the opinion of the Privy Counsel (Viscount Haldane, Lord Dunedin and Lord Parmoor) in Demerara Bauxite Co. Ltd. v. Hubbard [1923] A.C. 673. This case involved the purchase of property by a solicitor from his former client under an option. Lord Parmoor (at pp.681–682) said this: ......
  • Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA v Aboody
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 November 1988
    ...delivering the opinion of the Privy Counsel (Viscount Haldane, Lord Dunedin and Lord Parmoor) in Demerara Bauxite Co. Ltd. v. Hubbard [1923] A.C. 673. This case involved the purchase of property by a solicitor from his former client under an option. Lord Parmoor (at pp.681–682) said this: ......
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  • Subject Index
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 7-4, December 2003
    • 1 December 2003
    ...39Daubert v Merrell DowPharmaceuticals, 509 US 579 (1993)....... 173, 176, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184Demerara Bauxite Co. Ltd v Hubbard[1923] AC 673 ................................ 235Domenco v Domenco and Ignat (1963)41 DLR (2d) 267 ............................ 225Doorson v The Netherlands (......
  • Legal Profession
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...see Mookka Pillai Rajagopal v Khushvinder Singh Chopra[1996] 3 SLR 457 and its reliance on Demerara Bauxite Co v Louisa Hubbard[1923] AC 673. Nor is there a shortage of authorities which propound that as a general rule, the rebuttable as opposed to the irrebuttable presumption of undue infl......
  • Agency
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Laws of Nigeria. Volume 1 Agency
    • 8 September 2016
    ...has not ceased having regard to the circumstances of each particular case - see Demerara Bauxite company Ltd. v. Hubbard & Ors. (1923) A.C. 673.”– Per Fakayode, J. in Ajani & Ors. v. Okusaga No. I/89/75; (1976) 1 F.N.R. 188 at 194 - 195. 1517. Control of servant/agent by the principal. “An ......
  • Burden of Proof in Undue Influence: Common Law and Codes on Collision Course
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 7-4, December 2003
    • 1 December 2003
    ...whomthey owe fiduciary duties to establish affirmatively that the transaction was a fair one: see e.g.Demerara Bauxite Co. Ltd v Hubbard [1923] AC 673; Moody v Cox [1917] 2 Ch 236 THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EVIDENCE & PROOFBURDEN OF PROOF IN UNDUE INFLUENCE70 Above n. 65.intention that th......

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