Lake v Simmons
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1927 |
| Date | 1927 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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54 cases
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Siang Hoa Goldsmith Pte Ltd v The Wing On Fire & Marine Insurance Co Ltd
...to be used as a mask to protect Samuel Lustig for all his dishonest activities. 55.We were referred to the case of Lake v Simmons [1927] AC 487, a decision of the House of Lords, where their Lordships held that a person who obtained goods by fraud and false pretences was not a `customer` wi......
- Chang Lee Swee v PP
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Lim Trading Co v Sinclair
...to do is to examine the nature of the document without regard to the niceties of the criminal law.Lord Sumner however in Lake v Simmons [1927] AC 487, 509 dissents from the view that the criminal law should be treated as irrelevant merely because the document is commercial for after all, as......
- Suhani Mat Daud v Public Prosecutor
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2 firm's commentaries
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The Insurer Gives And The Insurer Takes Away
...P agreeing), 4 July 2017. 2 Applying Willkie v Gordian Runoff Limited [2005] HCA 17 at [16]. 3 Per Viscount Sumner in Lake v Simmons [1927] AC 487 at The Insurer Gives And The Insurer Takes Away The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specia......
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Director trust misplaced when it comes to PI cover
...terms of a policy as a whole. Exclusion clauses operate to "cut out something already included by the general recitals": Lake V Simmons [1927] AC 487, at 507 (per Viscount However, exclusion clauses do not operate in a vacuum and will be read in a manner which gives "congruent operation" to......
4 books & journal articles
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Mistake
...(1863), 1 H & C 803, 158 ER 1107; for discussion of which, see MacMillan, Mistakes , above note 15 at 224–29. See also Lake v Simmons , [1927] AC 487 (HL); Cuff-Waldron v Heald , [1930] 3 DLR 901 (Sask CA). Mistake 593 House of Lords held that no contract had been made by Lindsay with Blenk......
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Construction of Contracts: The Ambiguity Gateway and the Current State of the Law
...and re-affirmed the principle of objectivity in contract construction.25 G Byrnes v Kendle In Byrnes v Kendle,26the plurality held: 21[1927] AC 487, 509. 22Prince, above n 11, 498. 23 (2008) 234 CLR 151. 24International Air Transport Association (2008) 234 CLR 151, 160 [8]. 25International ......
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Fixed Charges Over Book Debts
...of the other con-tracting party: see interalia Cundy vLindsay (1878) 3 App Cas 459; Phillips vBrooks Ltd [1919] 2 KB243; LakevSimmons [1927]AC 487; IngramvLittle [1961] 1 QB 31; Lewis vAvery [1972] 1 QB 198.10 Code Civil, Art 1110, 2emealineŁa provides:‘[L’erreur] n’estpoint une cause de nu......
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Identity Mistakes: A Missed Opportunity?
...of the other con-tracting party: see interalia Cundy vLindsay (1878) 3 App Cas 459; Phillips vBrooks Ltd [1919] 2 KB243; LakevSimmons [1927]AC 487; IngramvLittle [1961] 1 QB 31; Lewis vAvery [1972] 1 QB 198.10 Code Civil, Art 1110, 2emealineŁa provides:‘[L’erreur] n’estpoint une cause de nu......