Metropolitan Bank v Heiron

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1879
Year1879
CourtCourt of Appeal
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26 cases
  • FHR European Ventures LLP v Mankarious
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 July 2014
    ...to the Court of Appeal authorities which are inconsistent with the notion that the Rule applies to bribes or secret commissions. In Metropolitan Bank v Heiron (1880) 5 Ex D 319, the Court of Appeal held that a claim brought by a company against a director was time-barred: the claim was to r......
  • Grimaldi v Chameleon Mining NL (No 2)
    • Australia
    • Full Federal Court (Australia)
    • Invalid date
  • Sumitomo Bank Ltd v Kartika Ratna Thahir and Others and another matter
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 3 December 1992
    ...(refd) Mareva Compania Naviera SA of Panama v International Bulk Carriers SA [1975] 2 Lloyd's Rep 509 (refd) Metropolitan Bank v Heiron (1880) 5 Ex D 319 (not folld) Morison v Thompson (1874) LR 9 QB 480 (refd) Morvah Consols Tin Mining Co, In re; McKay's Case (1875) 2 Ch D 1 (refd) Nant-y-......
  • Sinclair Investments (UK) Ltd v Versailles Trade Finance Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 March 2011
    ...5 Ch D 336 "was a case in which the property that was subject to the trust had originally been the beneficiary's property". 65 In Metropolitan Bank v. Heiron (1880) 5 Ex D 319, a director of a company who had received a bribe was being sued by the company, and he successfully ran a limitati......
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4 books & journal articles
  • UNAUTHORISED FIDUCIARY GAINS AND THE CONSTRUCTIVE TRUST
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...45 Ch D 1. 11 For the other Court of Appeal decisions which preferred the award of a personal remedy, see Metropolitan Bank v Heiron(1880) 5 Ex D 319; Powell & Thomas v Evan Jones & Co[1905] 1 KB 11; and Attorney General's Reference (No 1 of 1985)[1986] QB 491. 12 (1862) 10 HL Cas 26. 13 Se......
  • English Influences on the Historical Development of Fiduciary Duties in Scottish Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh Law Review No. , January 2014
    • 1 January 2014
    ...not be followed in Scottish law.182182Ross, “Trusts” (n 172) para 188. The decisions complained of are Metropolitan Bank v Heiron (1880) 5 Ex D 319; Lister v Stubbs (1890) 45 Ch D 1. After this entry was written the Privy Council reached the opposite conclusion in Attorney-General for Hong ......
  • John McGhee (ed), Snell's Equity, and Lynton Tucker, Nicholas Le Poidevin, and James Brightwell, Lewin on Trusts
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh Law Review No. , September 2016
    • 1 September 2016
    ...law following some recent oscillation between the approaches taken in Lister v Stubbs (1890) 45 Ch D 1 and Metropolitan Bank v Heiron (1880) 5 Ex D 319 (recently revivified by the decision in Sinclair Investments (UK) Ltd v Versailles Trade Finance [2012] Ch 453) and the approach taken in t......
  • MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LAW OF RESTITUTION
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1994, December 1994
    • 1 December 1994
    ...Millett, ‘Bribes and Secret Commissions,’[1993] Restitution L.R. 7—30. 17 [1993] 3 W.L.R. 1143, 11146 E-H. 18 (1882) 21 Ch.D. 9. 19 (1880) 5 Ex. D. 319. 20 [1993] 3 W.L.R. 1143, 1149. 21 See now D.Crilley, ‘A Case of Proprietary Overkill: A-G for Hong Kong v. Reid’[1994] Restitution Law Rev......

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