Lee v Sheard

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1955
CourtCourt of Appeal
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62 cases
  • Lim Hin Hock v Ong Jin Choon
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 27 February 1991
    ...[1955] 1 All ER 326 (refd) Cunningham v Harrison [1973] QB 942 (folld) Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Mardon [1976] QB 801 (distd) Lee v Sheard [1956] 1 QB 192 (distd) Benedict Chan (Goh Poh & Partners) for the first defendant (appellant in Civil Appeal No 116 of 1987) Michael Kuah (Lee & Lee) for......
  • Primeo Fund (in Official Liquidation) v Bank of Bermuda (Cayman) Ltd and HSBC Securities Services (Luxembourg) Sa
    • Cayman Islands
    • Court of Appeal (Cayman Islands)
    • 13 June 2019
    ...[2006] UKHL 22; [2006] 2 A.C. 543; [2006] 2 W.L.R. 1091; [2006] 3 All E.R. 401; [2006] P.N.L.R. 31, referred to. (57)Lee v. Sheard, [1956] 1 Q.B. 192, referred to. (58)Maynard v. West Midlands Regional Health Auth., [1984] 1 W.L.R. 634; [1985] 1 All E.R. 635, considered. (59)McClurg v. Roya......
  • Primeo Fund v Bank of Bermuda (Cayman) Ltd
    • Cayman Islands
    • Court of Appeal (Cayman Islands)
    • 13 June 2019
    ...loss principle cannot operate where the company has no claim against the wrongdoer. See the decisions of the English Court of Appeal in Lee v Sheard [1956] 1 QB 192, George Fischer (Great Britain) Ltd v Multi Construction Ltd [1995] BCC 310 and Gerber Garment Technology Inc. v Lectra Syste......
  • Wrexham Maelor Borough Council v David Stuart MacDougall and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 1 April 1993
    ...by Mr Macdougall in the shape of earnings from his own company did not, as it seemed to me, by itself render such a loss too remote; see Lee v. Sheard [1956] 1 QB 192. In that case, the plaintiff, a shareholder in and director of a company, was prevented from working by reason of personal i......
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2 books & journal articles
  • No reflective loss: The English approach reconsidered
    • South Africa
    • Journal of Corporate Commercial Law & Practice No. , April 2021
    • 31 March 2021
    ...under the law of torts before both the company and its members.162 Nonetheless, in such cases only the company’s 158 Lee v Sheard 1955 3 All ER 777; George Fischer supra note 77; Gerber supra note 77.159 Prudential supra note 24 at 223; Lee supra note 158; George Fischer supra note 77; Gerb......
  • Analyses: Companies, Shareholders and 'Reflective Losses'
    • South Africa
    • South Africa Mercantile Law Journal No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
    ...a cause of action to do so), even though the loss is a diminution in the value of the shareholding. This is supported by Lee v Sheard [1956] 1 QB 192, 195-196, George Fischer and Gerber. (3) Where a company suffers loss caused by a breach of duty to it, and a shareholder suffers a loss sepa......

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