Laurent v Sale & Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1963
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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27 cases
  • Trendtex Trading Corporation v Credit Suisse
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 22 October 1981
    ...11 Two modern cases in which agreements have been held void for champerty are In re Trepca Mines Ltd. [1963] Ch. 199 (C.A.), and Laurent v. Sale & Co. [1963] 1 W.L.R. 829.In re Trepca Mines Ltd. was concerned with an agreement governed by French law which contained provisions remarkably sim......
  • SPV Osus Ltd v HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Ireland) Ltd
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 31 July 2018
    ...takes three-quarters of the damages, the circumstances may not be such as to warrant the assignment: see Laurent v. Sale & Co. [1963] 1 W.L.R. 829'. If this approach to Laurent v. Sale & Co. is correct, then it would suggest a very significant (if ill-defined) exception to the principle of......
  • Trendtex Trading Corporation v Credit Suisse
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 2 May 1980
    ...assignment. If the assignee takes three-quarters of the damages, the circumstances may not be such as to warrant the assignment: see Laurent v. Sale & Co. (1963) 1 Weekly Law Reports 829. 66 (vii) ASSIGNMENTS IN THE OASE OF TORTS TO PROPERTY 67 In many cases of loss of or damage to property......
  • Camdex International Ltd v Bank of Zambia
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 3 April 1996
    ...(assuming no adequate pre-existing commercial interest) it was known or expected that the underlying debt would have to be sued for: see Laurent v Sale [1963] 1 WLR 829 and Trendtex Trading Corporation v Credit Suisse [1982] AC 679 (per Lord Wilberforce at p.695C). Whether the debt is 'disp......
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