Kuenigl v Donnersmarck

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date03 December 1954
Date03 December 1954
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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8 cases
  • Royal Boskalis Westminster N.v v Mountain
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 February 1997
    ...with public policy to do so. Thus contracts which are illegal in circumstances involving trading with the enemy will not be severed. Kuenigl -v- Donnersmarck [1955] 1 Q.B. 515 at p537 per McNair J. I think there is force in Mr. Clarke's submission that a payment in breach of United Nations......
  • Versloot Dredging BV v HDI Gerling Industrie Versicherung AG; The DC Merwestone
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 July 2016
    ...into its legal and illegal parts unless it accords with public policy to do so, even if each part is capable of standing on its own: Kuenigl v Donnersmarck [1955] 1 QB 515, 537 (McNair J); Royal Boskalis Westminster NV v Mountain [1999] QB 674, 693 (Stuart-Smith LJ), 704 (Pill 26 The posi......
  • Westland Helicopters Ltd v Arab Organisation for Industrialisation
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 3 August 1994
    ...the fund were clearly in the U.A.E. at the headquarters of the fund from which the fund operated. In Kuenigl v. DonnersmarckINTLELR[22] [1955] 1 Q.B. 515, 535, McNair J. accepted that the domicile of a limited company was the place of registration or the country in which it was incorporated......
  • Arab Monetary Fund v Hashim and Others (No. 3)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 21 February 1991
    ...the domicile and residence of the Fund were clearly in the U.A.E. at the headquarters of the Fund from which the Fund operated. 12In Kuenigl v. Donnersmarck [1955] 1 Q.B. 515, McNair J. at p. 535 accepted that the domicile of a limited company was the place of registration or the country i......
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