E Johnson & Company (Barbados) Ltd v NSR Ltd

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date09 July 1996
Date09 July 1996
CourtPrivy Council
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11 cases
  • Maxi Developments Pte Ltd v Tan Siew Kheng Helen and Another
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 4 December 1997
    ...had not been affected by any notice of land acquisition. In any event the Privy Council had recently held in E Johnson Ltd v NSR Ltd [1996] 3 WLR 583 that even if a property was subject to a notice of acquisition (which was not the case here) in the absence of a specific provision in the co......
  • Clacken et Al v Causwell et Al
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 12 November 2010
    ...this submission. 126 For a more recent flavour of what is required for the doctrine to operate, there is the case of E Johnson & Co (Barbados) Ltd. v. NSR Ltd. (1996) 49 W.I.R. 27. In that case E Johnson agreed to sell land to N5R Ltd. The purchaser paid the deposit with completion set for ......
  • Alexander Kuznetsov v London Borough of Camden
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 1 April 2019
    ...contract had envisaged, not a situation such as the present. 46 Mr Williams refers to E Johnson Co (Barbados) Ltd v N.S.R. Ltd [1997] AC 400 as authority for the position that the setting in train of compulsory purchase machinery does not frustrate any prior contract for the sale/purchase o......
  • Cove Hotels (Antigua) Ltd v The Hon. Gaston Browne Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
    • Antigua and Barbuda
    • Court of Appeal (Antigua and Barbuda)
    • 31 October 2019
    ...and another ANUHCVAP2002/0016 (delivered 28th January 2003, unreported) applied; E. Johnson & Co. (Barbados) Limited v N.S.R. Limited [1997] A.C 400 applied. 3. The decision of a public body is irrational where it is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive The Law of Equitable Remedies. Second Edition
    • 18 June 2013
    ...1072, 9 A.R. 308, 85 D.L.R. (3d) 19 .............................................. 326 E. Johnson & Co. (Barbados) Ltd. v. N.S.R. Ltd., [1997] A.C. 400 (P.C.) ................................................................................. 341 E.M.I. Ltd. v. Pandit (1975), [1975] 1 W.L.R. ......
  • CONTRACT DAMAGES AND THE PROMISEE'S ROLE IN ITS OWN LOSS.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 42 No. 2, April 2019
    • 1 January 2019
    ...401, Lord Fraser agreeing at 401, Lord Keith agreeing at 401, Lord Scarman agreeing at 402); E Johnson & Co (Barbados) Ltd v NSR Ltd [1997] AC 400. (254) See generally Asamera Oil Corporation Ltd v Sea Oil & General Corporation [1979] 1 SCR 633, 668 (Estey J for the Court) ('some fa......
  • Specific Performance: Discretionary Defences
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive The Law of Equitable Remedies. Second Edition
    • 18 June 2013
    ...on the granting and discharging of these certificates. 110 Because the 106 See E. Johnson & Co. (Barbados) Ltd. v. N.S.R. Ltd. , [1997] A.C. 400 (P.C.). 107 See St. Thomas Subdividers Ltd. v. 639373 Ontario Ltd. (1996), 91 O.A.C. 193 (C.A.). 108 (1973), [1974] Ch. 30. 109 In Ontario, see Co......

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