Levison v Farin
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Date | 1978 |
Year | 1978 |
Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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Triumph Controls – UK Ltd v Primus International Holding Company
...DBE Case No: HT-2016-000104 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION COURT (QBD) Royal Courts of Justice Strand, London, WC2A 2LL Rajesh Pillai & Nathaniel Bird (instructed by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP) for the Clai......
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LTT Global Consultants v BMC Academy Pte Ltd
...that the principle cannot be applied where both parties were involved in the drafting of the agreement. The case of Levison v Farin [1978] 2 All ER 1149 held that contra proferentem is irrelevant where the clause “emerged as a result of joint efforts” (at p 1156) and Kleinwort Benson v Mala......
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Man Nutzfahrzeuge AG and another v Freightliner Ltd and Others
...177 In this context my attention was drawn to three cases in which the scope of disclosure letters has been considered, Levison v Farin [1978] 2 All E.R. 1149, New Hearts Ltd v Cosmopolitan Investments Ltd [1997] BCLC 249 and Infiniteland Ltd v Artisan Contracting Ltd (unreported) [2005] EW......
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MDW Holdings Ltd v James Robert Norvill
...clear that disclosure clauses have a clear purpose. First, the commercial purpose of such clauses was clearly identified by Gibson J in Levison v Farin [1978] 2 All ER 1149, 1157: “I do not say that facts made known by disclosure of the means of knowledge in the course of negotiation could......
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5 firm's commentaries
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COVID-19 UK Corporate Creating Certainty in Uncertain Times - Return of the MAC
...behind its ruling, it confirmed that Brigadier 5 Decura IM Investments LLP & others v UBS AG [2015] EWHC 171 (Comm).6 Levison v Farin [1978] 2 ALL ER 1149.7 Akorn v Fresenius Del. Ch. Oct. 1, 2018.8 IBP v Tyson, 2001 Del. Ch. Lexis 81.9 The conclusions of this ruling are reflected in the Pane......
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Invoking Material Adverse Change based on Covid-19: Easier said than done
...v. Benny, (1992) 115 ALR 207. [2] In Re IBP Inc., Shareholders Litigation, 789 A.2d 14 (Del. Ch. 2001), at 68. [3] Levison v. Farin, [1978] 2 All ER 1149, at 1156. [4] Grupo Hotelero Urvasco SA v. Carey Value Added SL & Anr., [2013] EWHC 1039, at Pg. 60 Para 362; Inmet Mining Corp. v. Homes......
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MAC Clauses Post August 2007 - What Do They Mean In The Current Financial Markets?
...plc v. Celtech International Ltd [2006] EWHC 63; Glowlite Ltdv. Jasper Conran Ltd The Times 29 January 1998; Levinson v. Farin [1978] 2 All ER 1149; Re Technology Investment Trust plc (1988) 4 BCC 244; National Westminster Bank plc v. Halesowen Pressworks Assembles Ltd [1972] AC 785 HL; Re ......
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Nothing to Hide: Disclosures Against Warranties
...frowned upon by the Courts is the disclosure of information from which a warranty disclosure needs to be deduced. Levinson v Farin [1978] 2 All ER 1149 involved the sale of a fashion company. The key designer of the company had become ill and this was having a detrimental impact on the comp......
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Contract Law
...negotiated, then the contra proferentem rule would not apply. The court based this proposition on the English case of Levison v Farin[1978] 2 All ER 1149, which held that the contra proferentem rule is irrelevant where the clause ‘emerged as a result of joint efforts’ (at p 1156). The court......