Manifest Shipping Company Ltd v Uni-Polaris Shipping Company Ltd (Star Sea)
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | LORD STEYN,LORD HOFFMANN,LORD CLYDE,LORD HOBHOUSE OF WOODBOROUGH |
| Judgment Date | 18 January 2001 |
| Neutral Citation | [2001] UKHL 1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 18 January 2001 |
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...29 Ll L Rep 141. Levy v BaillieENR (1831) 7 Bing 349; 131 ER 135. Manifest Shipping Co Ltd v Uni-Polaris Insurance Co Ltd (The Star Sea) [2001] CLC 608; [2003] 1 AC 469. Pan Atlantic Insurance Co Ltd v Pine Top Insurance Co Ltd [1994] CLC 868; [1995] 1 AC 501. ParkingEye Ltd v Somerfield St......
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...as dishonesty, of the kind often called blind-eye, or Nelsonian: see for example Lord Scott of Foscote in Manifest Shipping Co Ltd v Uni-Polaris Insurance Co Ltd [2001] UKHL 1, [2003] 1 AC 469, at paragraphs 112 to 116. The facts of which knowledge was to be imputed in that case did not in......
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Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA ((in Liquidation)) (No. 15), Re; Bank of India v Morris
...what was required for this type of knowledge were accurately described in the speech of Lord Scott of Foscote in Manifest Shipping Company Limited v Uni-Polaris Company Limited [2003] 1 AC 469 at para. 116, which was quoted by Patten J, at para. 13 of the judgment in this case: "In summary......
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K/s Merc-scandia Xxxxii v Certain Lloyd's Underwriters and Others
...but it has recently been considered by the House of Lords in Manifest Shipping Co Ltd v. Uni-Polaris Insurance Co ( The Star Sea) [2001] 2 W.L.R. 170 in the context of a hull and machinery policy where the allegation was one of culpable non-disclosure during the currency of the contract. T......
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4 firm's commentaries
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A Guide To Secondary Liability ' Part One: Dishonest Assistance
...614 3. Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) t/a Crockfords [2017] UKSC 67 at [74] 4. Manifest Shipping & Co Ltd v Uni-Polaris Insurance Co Ltd [2003] 1 AC 469 The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific...
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'Brillante Virtuoso' Held To Have Been A Constructive Total Loss
...Merchants Marine Insurance Co [1903] 1 KB 811 at 816 3 Kuwait Airways v Kuwait Insurance [1996] 1 Lloyd's Rep 664 at 696-7 4 The Star Sea [2001] UKHL 1; [2003] 1 AC 469 The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be soug......
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Insurance fraud: who am I hurting?
...in Manifest Shipping Co Limited v Uni-Polaris Shipping Co Limited (Manifest Shipping Co Ltd v Uni-Polaris Shipping Co Ltd (The Star Sea) [2003] 1 AC 469; [2001] 1 All 743; [2001] UKHL 1; [62] per Lord Hobhouse) as "the fraudulent insured must not be allowed to think: if the fraud is success......
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English Law's Response To An Insured's Fraudulent Representations Part 2
...reserving their rights should fraud be later proved. Footnotes 1 See Versloot Dredging per Mance LJ at paragraph 76 2 The Star Sea[2003] 1 AC 469 3 [2015] EWCA Civ 327 The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sough......
15 books & journal articles
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Insurance
...v Boehm (1766) 3 Burr 1905 at 1909–1910, per Lord Mansield [97 ER 1162 at 1164]; Manifest Shipping Co Ltd v Uni-Polaris Insurance Co Ltd [2003] 1 AC 469 at 491 [42], per Lord Hobhouse; CGU Insurance Ltd v Porthouse (2008) 235 CLR 103 at [49]. 150 See Mills, “Duty of Good Faith: he ‘Sleeper’......
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The Insurance Act 2015: Rebalancing the Interests of Insurer and Assured
...(The Mercandian Continent) [2001] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 563; ManifestShipping Co Ltd vUni-Polaris Insurance Co Ltd (The Star Sea) [2001] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 389 (The StarSea).19 The Mercandian Continent ibid.20 La Banque Financiere de la Cite SA vWestgate Insurance Co Ltd [1989] 2 All ER 952.21 Sprung vR......
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The Journey of Good Faith: Where Does It belong in General Contract Law?
...Rebalancing the Interests of the Insurer and the Assured” (2015) 78 MLR 6 1004, 1015. 6 Manifest Shipping v Uni-Polaris (The Star Sea) [2001] UKHL 1 [45], [2003] 1 AC 492–493. 7 Francis D Rose, “Information asymmetry and the myth of good faith: back to basis” [2007] LMCLQ 181. 8 Carter v Bo......
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More Questions Than Answers? Caribbean Jurisprudence on the Duty of Uberrimae Fides
...text. 28. Lindenau v Desborough (1828)108 ER 1160, (1828) 8 Barn & C 586 (KB); Manifest Shipping Co Ltd v Uni-Polaris Shipping Co Ltd [2001] UKHL 1, [2003] 1 AC 469 (‘ The Star Sea ’). 29. PCW Syndicates v PCW Reinsurers [1996] 1 WLR 1136 (CA). 30. As Lord Clyde observes in The Star Sea (n ......
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