Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc.
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Lord Sumption,Lord Neuberger,Lord Clarke,Lord Mance,Lord Toulson |
| Judgment Date | 29 October 2014 |
| Neutral Citation | [2014] UKSC 55 |
| Court | Supreme Court |
| Date | 29 October 2014 |
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74 cases
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RO (by his litigation friend MI) v Freddy Gray
...of illegality is not designed to secure justice between the parties. Lord Mansfield made the point in Holman (see above) and in Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Lord Sumption (after citing the passage set out above) noted that the doctrine was based on policy “and not on the perceived bala......
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Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi and Brothers Company v Saad Investments Company Ltd, Al Sanea and Others
...Carrying Co. Ltd. v. Asiatic Petroleum Co. Ltd., [1915] A.C. 705, referred to. (43) Les Laboratoires Servier v. Apotex Inc., [2014] UKSC 55; [2015] A.C. 430; [2014] 3 W.L.R. 1257; [2015] 1 All E.R. 671; [2014] Bus. L.R. 1217; [2015] R.P.C. 10, referred to. (44) Lowe v. W Machell Joi......
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- John Ambrose v Peter Anthony and Another
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10 firm's commentaries
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GDPR And Insurance: Who Picks Up The Tab When Things Go Wrong?
...and could such conduct include fines imposed by the ICO? Lord Sumption, in his majority judgment in Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex [2015] A.C. 430, said that an act of moral turpitude could include "the infringement of statutory rules enacted for the protection of the public interest and......
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Can The Illegality Defence Bar A Claim Against A Dishonest Director?
...than a matter of discretion and pragmatism, a view that was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55 which determined (in Lord Sumption's words) that "the illegality defence is based on a rule of law on which the court is required to act…It is ......
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Can The Illegality Defence Bar A Claim Against A Dishonest Director?
...than a matter of discretion and pragmatism, a view that was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55 which determined (in Lord Sumption's words) that "the illegality defence is based on a rule of law on which the court is required to act…It is ......
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Summer 2016 Scots Law in Practice
...to its scope from the Supreme Court in recent times (in Hounga v Allen [2014] 1 WLR 2889 and Les Laboratories Services v Apotex Inc [2015] AC 430). In this case, however, running off without payment was neither collateral to the civil claim nor were there any public policies which outweighe......
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12 books & journal articles
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Lecture - ONES DAY PROFESSORSHIP OF COMMERCIAL LAW LECTURE 2019 – “THE STATE OF ILLEGALITY”
...9 Hounga v Allen [2014] UKSC 47; [2014] ICR 847 at [42], per Lord Wilson and [55], per Lord Hughes; Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55; [2015] AC 430 at [13], per Lord Sumption. 10 [1994] 1 AC 340 at 355. 11 [2014] UKSC 55; [2015] AC 430. 12 Les Laboratoires Servier v Apot......
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Lecture
...Mirza [2016] UKSC 42; [2017] AC 467 at [114]. 80 Hounga v Allen [2014] UKSC 47; [2014] 1 WLR 2889; Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55; [2015] AC 430; Bilta (UK) Ltd v Nazir (No 2) [2015] UKSC 23; [2016] AC 1. 81 James Lee, “Illegality, Familiarity and the Law Commission” i......
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No (,) More Bolam Please: Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
...ibid at [90].26 ibid at [99]-[102].27 ibid at [104].28 ibid at [105].29 Tinsley vMilligan n3above;Les Laboratoires Ser vier vApotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55; [2014] 3 WLR1257 (Apotex).30 Apotex ibid at [19].31 O. Jones (ed), Bennion on Statutory Interpretation (London: LexisNexis, 6th ed, 2013) 1......
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Attribution and the Illegality Defence
...ibid at [90].26 ibid at [99]-[102].27 ibid at [104].28 ibid at [105].29 Tinsley vMilligan n3above;Les Laboratoires Ser vier vApotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55; [2014] 3 WLR1257 (Apotex).30 Apotex ibid at [19].31 O. Jones (ed), Bennion on Statutory Interpretation (London: LexisNexis, 6th ed, 2013) 1......
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