Kaufman v Gerson
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1904 |
| Date | 1904 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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26 cases
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Ajt v Aju
...SLR 661 (refd) Foster v Driscoll [1929] 1 KB 470 (folld) Kamini Kumar Basu v Birendra Nath BasuAIR 1930 PC 100 (folld) Kaufman v Gerson [1904] 1 KB 591 (distd) Lemenda Trading Co Ltd v African Middle East Petroleum Co Ltd [1988] QB 448 (folld) Ooi Kiah Inn Charles v Kukuh Maju Industries Sd......
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Royal Boskalis Westminster N.v v Mountain
...not give effect to the Finalisation Agreement and the waiver of claims at the behest of the Iraqis. The principle was established in Kaufman -v- Gerson [1904] 1 K.B. 591. Moreover whether or not a Court today would regard the degree of coercion exercised in that case as sufficient to const......
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Masefield AG v Amlin Corporate Member Ltd
...against the universal morality of mankind and such as "any civilised tribunal would refuse to give effect to" (at 689 and 729, citing Kaufman v. Gerson [1904] 1 KB 591, where at 598 reference was made to the violation of a moral principle "which, if it is not, ought to be universally recogn......
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Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company and Another
...in which the English courts had ignored foreign law of which they disapproved: “Simpson v FogoENR1 H. & M. 195 and Kaufman v GersonELR[1904] 1 K.B. 591 have been the subject of considerable adverse comment. The former can perhaps be treated as a retaliation by English Courts on foreign stat......
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2 books & journal articles
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CONTRACTUAL ILLEGALITY AND CONFLICT OF LAWS
...that it was not against the public policy of French law to enforce gaming contracts governed by French law. See also Kaufman v. Gerson[1904] 1 K.B. 591. 136 Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart v. Slatford [1953] 1 Q.B. 248 at 266. 137 See the Lemenda case [1988] 1 Q.B. 448 and the Shaikh Faisal......
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EQUITY AND OPPORTUNISM IN THE LAW OF CONTRACT:
...The Cambridge Law Journal 97 at 97–98, citing a number of venerable sources including Sir Edward Coke's 2 Inst 483, Kaufman v Gerson[1904] 1 KB 591 and Skeate v Beale(1841) 11 Ad & El 983. 148 Jack Beatson, “Duress as a Vitiating Factor in Contract” (1974) 33(1) The Cambridge Law Journal 97......