Jarvis (J.) & Sons Ltd v Westminster Corporation

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1969
Year1969
CourtHouse of Lords
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22 cases
  • MMC Engineering Group Bhd and Another v Wayss & Freytag (M) Sdn Bhd
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2015
  • Teknik Cekap Sdn Bhd v Villa Genting Development Sdn Bhd
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2000
  • DPP v T.N.
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 28 May 2020
    ...to transact the whole affairs of the company. In The Registrar of Restrictive Trading Agreements v. W.H. Smith [1969] 3 All E.R., [1969] 1 W.L.R. 1460, Lord Denning M.R. cited with approval the decision in Gibson and the meaning of the word “manager” ascribed in that case. It is submitted ......
  • Willow Corporation S.À.R.L. v MTD Contractors Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Technology and Construction Court)
    • 25 June 2019
    ...The existence of latent defects cannot prevent practical completion ( J Jarvis & Sons Ltd v. Westminster Corpn [1969] 1 W.L.R. 1448; [1970] 1 W.L.R. 637). In many ways that is self-evident: if the defect is latent, nobody knows about it and it cannot therefore prevent the certifier from con......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Security for performance
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume II - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...or nominated suppliers had been used at least since the decision of the house of Lords in Westminster Corporation v J Jarvis & Sons Ltd [1970] 1 WLr 637: Keating, “alwyn Waters Memorial Lecture: he Making of a Standard Form” (1995) 11 Const LJ 170 at 178. See further powell, “Subcontracting......
  • Defects
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume II - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...being a Master Builders’ association form, used a virtually identical expression. 125 See Westminster Corporation v J Jarvis & Sons Ltd [1970] 1 WLr 637 at 647, per Viscount Dilhorne. however, it will not usually be contemplated by a contract that manifest material defects (ie, items which ......
  • Contract formation
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume I - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...Contracts and Law Survey 2018 (nBS, 2018) (downloadable at www.thenbs.com) 446 Westminster Corporation v J Jarvis & Sons Ltd [1970] 1 WLr 637 at 644, per Viscount Dilhorne; City of Westminster v Cliford Culpin & Partner (1987) 12 Con Lr 117 at 138–139, per Sir John Megaw; Fillite (Runcorn) ......
  • Contract administration
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume I - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...per Coulson LJ. 357 See, eg, Morgan v S&S Constructions Pty Ltd [1967] VR 149 at 154–156; Westminster Corporation v J Jarvis & Sons Ltd [1970] 1 WLR 637 at 646, per Viscount Dilhorne; Re an arbitration between Taylor Wood-row International Ltd and the Minister of Health (1978) 19 SASR 1 at ......

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