Joachimson v Swiss Bank Corporation

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1920
Date1920
Year1920
CourtCourt of Appeal

Get this document and AI-powered insights with a free trial of vLex and Vincent AI

Get Started for Free

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex
228 cases
  • Earl Hodge Respondent/Claimant v Albion Hodge Applicant/Defendant
    • British Virgin Islands
    • High Court (British Virgin Islands)
    • 21 March 2008
    ...the request is part of the contract, and must be proved, and no action arises until the request is made." 44 In N. Joachimson (A Firm Name) v Swiss Bank of Corporation (relied upon by Dr Archibald), the question that the Court of Appeal had to determine is not relevant to the issue in this ......
  • Ashton Mining Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
  • Damayanti Kantilal Doshi v Indian Bank
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 3 August 1999
    ...account until a demand for payment has been made at the branch where the account is maintained: Joachimson v Swiss Bank Corporation [1921] 3 KB 110, and that for that purpose, branches of a bank are treated as separate entities: R v Lovitt [1912] AC 212, 219 and Clare & Co v Dresdner Bank [......
  • Bian Chiang Bank Bhd v Kwong Hing Cheong
    • Malaysia
    • Federal Court (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Get Started for Free
1 firm's commentaries
  • Hong Kong Court Provides Novel And Influential Analysis Of The Quincecare Duty
    • Hong Kong
    • Mondaq Hong Kong
    • 18 April 2023
    ...follows that a cause of action in debt arises when that demand is made, and not before (N. Joachimson (a firm) v Swiss Bank Corporation [1921] 3 KB 110). In Lord Sumption's view, if a bank has debited an account without authority, the customer is entitled to disregard the debit and require ......
5 books & journal articles
  • Tracing, Mixing, and Innocent Claimants
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 84-3, May 2021
    • 1 May 2021
    ...Re French Caledonia Travel Service Pty Ltd n 4 above at [31].12 See discussion of this view in Joachimson vSwiss Bank Corporation [1921] 3 KB 110,116, 120-121,122; Smith, n 10 above, 188-189. The modern understanding of a bank account is that it doesnot involvea ser ies of debts.It is argua......
  • The Law of Central Bank Reserve Creation
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 85-2, March 2022
    • 1 March 2022
    ...n 4 above,160.67 Bank of Marin vEngland n4above.68 Citizens Bank of Maryland vStumf n4above.69 Joachimson vSwiss Bank Corporation [1921] 3 KB 110; Foley vHill n 4 above. Banks enjoy avariety of legal protections not available to other debtors,including exemption from the normalobligation pr......
  • BANK CUSTOMER
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian Law. First edition B
    • 7 September 2019
    ...is brought to an end. It is an implied contract which is unwritten and undefined by the parties. Joachimson v. Swiss Bank Corporation (1921) 3 K.B. 110, 127. Generally, a customer is someone who has an account with a bank, or without having an account the relationship of banker and customer......
  • DAMAGES FOR REFUSAL TO PAY CUSTOMERS CHEQUE
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian Law. First edition D
    • 6 February 2019
    ...drawn by, as well as the collection of cheques paid in by, a customer. See also Atkin, L.J. in Joachimson v. Swiss Bank Corporation (1921) 3 K.B. 110 at 127. Therefore, the receipt of money from an account of his customer by a banker constitutes the latter the debtor of the former (Foley v.......
  • Get Started for Free