IBL Ltd v Coussens

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Judgment Date27 June 1990
Date27 June 1990

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  • Panwell Pte Ltd and Another v Indian Bank
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 19 September 2002
    ...Ltd [1981] QB 864; [1982] 1 All ER 28 (refd) Endurance 1, The [1998] 3 SLR (R) 970; [1999] 1 SLR 661 (folld) IBL Ltd v Coussens [1991] 2 All ER 133 (distd) Mercer v Jones (1813) 3 Camp 477; 170 ER 1452 (refd) Sachs v Miklos [1948] 2 KB 23; [1948] 1 All ER 67 (refd) Torts (Interference with ......
  • Trafigura Beheer BV and Another v Mediterranean Shipping Company SA (The "MSC Amsterdam")
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 26 April 2007
    ...or any ultimate hedging loss, are, in my view, to be characterised as “consequential” losses in the sense used in TIGA, as explained in IBL Ltd v Coussens79 and the Kuwait Airways case.80 On the evidence of the experts, none of those losses was reasonably foreseeable to MSC as shipowner in ......
  • Carleton (Earl of Malmesbury) v Strutt & Parker (A Partnership)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 24 April 2008
    ...Wilberforce in Johnson v. Agnew [1980] A.C. 367, 401A. Similar flexibility applies in assessing damages for conversion ( IBL Ltd. V. Coussens [1991] 2 All E.R. 133) or for negligence ( Dodd Properties (Kent) Ltd. V. Canterbury City Council [1980] 1 W.L.R. 433). As Bingham L.J. said in Count......
  • Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 November 2000
    ...We refer to BBMB Finance (Hong Kong) Ltd v Eda Holdings LtdWLR[1990] 1 WLR 409, a decision of the Privy Council, and IBL Ltd v CoussensUNK[1991] 2 All ER 133, a decision of this court. 413. It was this comparatively brief review of the caselaw which led Aikens J to conclude that the general......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • IFI Update London, August/Octber 2008 - Part 1
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 9 October 2008
    ...Co. [2002] UKHL 19, [2002] 2 AC 883, at [67]. It also reflected what had been said by Neill and Nicholls LJJ in IBL v. Coussens [1991] 2 All ER 133. His Lordship said that in this case, the fact that the might have been obliged to accept the defendant's suggestion as to the disposal of the ......
1 books & journal articles
  • Flexibility of Damages for Conversion and Detinue
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh University Press African Journal of International and Comparative Law No. , March 2009
    • 1 March 2009
    ...according to the individual circumstances of any particular case’.3232Ibid., at 186. In IBL Ltd. v Coussens,3333IBL Ltd. v Coussens [1991] 2 All ER 133 (CA). the Court of Appeal clearly rejected the approach of Evershed J. in Rosenthal and that of Diplock L.J. in General & Finance Facilitie......