McFarlane v E.E. Caledonia Ltd (No. 2)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1995
Year1995
CourtQueen's Bench Division

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42 cases
  • Condliffe v Hislop and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 October 1995
    ...have been correct on its facts, but in my view it is of no assistance to the defendant in the present case. 58 In McFarlane v E.E. Caledonia Ltd (No 2) (1995) 1 WLR 366 Longmore J. at the request of successful defendants ordered that costs be paid by a commercial organisation which had fund......
  • Lyubov Andreevna Kireeva (as Trustee and Bankruptcy Manager of Georgy Ivanovich Bedzhamov) v Alina Zolotova
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 13 March 2024
    ...Although a champertous funding arrangement is unenforceable as between the parties to the agreement, (see for example, McFarlane v EE Caledonia Ltd (No.2) [1995] 1 WLR 366, and Dal-Sterling Group v WSP South & West [2001] 7 WLUK 436 TCC at [20]) the fact of established maintenance or ch......
  • Abraham v Thompson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 July 1997
    ...giving support.” In that respect he repeated the quotation from his judgment in Hill v Archbold above. In MacFarlane's case, Longmore J ([1995] 1 WLR 366 at p. 373D–E) said: “It may well be that it is not necessary to every case of lawful maintenance that the maintainer should accept a liab......
  • Hamilton v Al-Fayed (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 May 2002
    ...would have given the organisation 12.5 percent of the plaintiff's damages. Having referred to Hill v Archbold [1968] 1 QB 686 he said [1995] 1 WLR 366, 373: 'It may well be that it is not necessary to every case of lawful maintenance that the maintainer should accept a liability for a succ......
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1 books & journal articles
  • CONTRACTUAL ILLEGALITY AND CONFLICT OF LAWS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1995, December 1995
    • 1 December 1995
    ...two cases, that a champertous contract is illegal. For maintenance, see the recent case of McFarlane v. E.E. Caledonia Ltd. (No. 2)[1995] 1 W.L.R. 366. 197 [1993] 2 W.L.R. 908. 198 Ibid., at 921. 199 See the Shaikh Faisal case [1995] 1 S.L.R. 394 at 413 and 414. 200 (1889) 42 Ch. D. 321 at ......