Industries & General Mortgage Company Ltd v Lewis

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1949
Date1949
CourtKing's Bench Division
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    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 13 January 2011
    ...more recent cases of Daraydan and in the AG for Hong Kong . 49 Reference was also made to the decision of Slade J. in Industries & General Mortgage Co. Ltd. v. Lewis [1949] 2 All E.R. 573. At page 575 F, His Lordship stated: Sometimes the words ‘secret commission’ are used, sometimes 'surr......
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    ...person with whom he is dealing that he has made that payment to the person whom he knows to be the other person's agent”: Industries and General Mortgage Co Ltd v Lewis. 5 (2) The Claimants’ case is not that SBA made payments to Mr. Ghosn out of its own resources but that the SBA Payments w......
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  • Nayyar & Others v Denton Wilde Sapte
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 16 December 2009
    ...the civil law a bribe is: “a gift accepted by a fiduciary as an inducement to him to betray his trust” (at 330G). 87 In Industries and Gen. Mortgage Co Limited v. Lewis [1949] 2 All ER 573 Slade J held that a bribe for civil law purposes does not require proof of a corrupt motive, that the ......
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  • International Fraud & Asset Tracing (3rd Edition), England & Wales
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • 5 March 2015
    ...bribed agent and party paying the bribe. It is well-established under English case law (Industries & General Mortgage Co. Ltd v Lewis [1949] 2 All ER 573) that a bribe/payment of a secret commission arises when a person: (i) makes a payment to the agent of a counterparty/principal; (ii) kno......

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