Lee (Paula) Ltd v Robert Zehil & Company Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1983
Date1983
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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31 cases
  • Durham Tees Alley Airport Ltd and Another v BMI Baby Ltd and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 30 April 2009
    ...showed that there would have been a substantial sale. 105 The second case on which Mr Brealey relied was the case of Paula Lee Limited v Robert Zehil Limited [1983] 1 All ER 390, a decision of Mustill J. There the defendants were appointed sole distributors for the plaintiffs for the sale o......
  • Latham v Credit Suisse First Boston
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 15 May 2000
    ...that the cases of Abrahams v Reiach [1922] 1 KB 477, Lion Nathan v CC Bottlers [1996] 1 WLR 1438 and Lee Paula v Robert Zehil & Co [1983] 2 All ER 390 are authority for the proposition that while CSFB have a discretion to perform the contract in the way most beneficial to themselves, they c......
  • Lion Nathan Ltd v C-C Bottlers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 14 May 1996
    ... ... agreed to sell the entire issued share capital of a soft drinks company to the plaintiffs for N.Z.$250m., subject to adjustment. The plaintiffs ... Woods of Colchester Ltd. [ 1967 ] 1 Q.B. 278 , C.A. and Paula Lee Ltd. v. Robert Zehil & Co. Ltd. [ 1983 ] 2 All E.R. 390 ... ...
  • AS Nordlandsbanken and Another v Nederkoorn
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 14 December 2000
    ...164. Robert Goff QC and Michael Mustill QC were counsel in this case. Mustill J expounded the rule in Paula Lee Ltd v Zehil & Co Ltd [1983] 2 All ER 390 at p 394: The court is to look at the range of reasonable methods, and select the one which is least unfavourable to the defendant, bearin......
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7 books & journal articles
  • Compensation for Harm to Economic Interests
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Remedies: The Law of Damages. Third Edition Compensatory Damages
    • 21 June 2014
    ...found). 36 Similarly, where the landlord breaches (by repudiating the lease), the tenant is 32 Paula Lee Ltd v Robert Zehil & Co Ltd , [1983] 2 All ER 390 (QB); Durham Tees Valley Airport Ltd v Bmibaby Ltd & Anor , [2010] EWCA Civ 485. See also Envoy Relocation Services Inc v Canada (Attorn......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Remedies: The Law of Damages. Third Edition Limiting Principles
    • 21 June 2014
    ...Canada Ltd (1989), 77 CBR (NS) 171 (BCSC) .............................................. 81 Paula Lee Ltd v Robert Zehil & Co Ltd, [1983] 2 All ER 390 (QB) ..................... 31 Pauloski v Nascor Inc (2002), 311 AR 67, 1 Alta LR (4th) 69, [2002] AJ No 256 (QB) .................................
  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2001, December 2001
    • 1 December 2001
    ...policy principle that litigation must not be turned into a lottery. … Mustill J expounded the rule in Paula Lee Ltd v Zehil & Co Ltd[1983] 2 All ER 390 at p 394: The court is to look at the range of reasonable methods, and select the one which is least unfavourable to the defendant, bearing......
  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2000, December 2000
    • 1 December 2000
    ...loss that had been proved instead: see at 712—713. Also distinguished was the English decision of Lee Paula v Robert Zehil & Co[1983] 2 All ER 390, which had established that the contract was to be read subject to an implied term that the defendant”s freedom of choice with regard to the per......
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