Moody v Cox and Hatt

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1917
Date1917
CourtCourt of Appeal
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127 cases
  • Sharon Scally v Odilla Rhatigan
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 28 March 2012
    ...[2005] UKHL 8, [2005] 1 WLR 567 approved; Flood v Flood [1999] 2 IR 234, Spencer v Kinsella [1996] 2 ILRM 401, Moody v Cox and Hatt [1917] 2 Ch 71, O'Carroll v Diamond [2005] IESC 21, [2005] 4 IR 41, Carroll v Carroll [1999] 4 IR 241, and Bristol and West Building Society v Mothew [1998......
  • Hong Leong Singapore Finance Ltd v United Overseas Bank Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 23 November 2006
    ...as in a moral sense”: see Dering v Earl of Winchelsea [1775–1802] All ER Rep 140. This principle was similarly followed in Moody v Cox [1917] 2 Ch 71 where it was held by Warrington LJ at [I]n order to prevent a man coming for relief in connection with a transaction so tainted it must be sh......
  • United Overseas Finance Ltd v Victor Sakayamary and Others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 7 May 1996
    ...acting for two or more parties to a transaction even though there is no rule prohibiting such a practice - see Moody v Cox and Hatt [1917] 2 Ch 71 in which Scrutton LJ said at p It may be that a solicitor who tries to act for both parties puts himself in such a position that he must be liab......
  • Hilton v Barker Booth & Eastwood (A Firm)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 May 2002
    ...Counsel for Mr Hilton, in submitting that the judge was wrong, drew our attention to a number of authorities to which I should refer. In Moody v Cox [1917] 2 Ch.71 Hatt was, as trustee of the settlement which owned the relevant property, a vendor thereof to Moody as well as a solicitor acti......
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5 books & journal articles
  • Subject Index
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 7-4, December 2003
    • 1 December 2003
    ...225Mohammed v The State [1999] 2 WLR552..................................................... 49Moody v Cox [1917] 2 Ch 71 ............ 235Moore v R. Fox & Sons [1956] 1 QB 596........................................................ 228Murray v United Kingdom (1996) 22EHRR 29 .....................
  • THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF LAWYERS for THEIR CLIENTS' MISSTATEMENTS AND OMISSIONS TO THE SECURITIES MARKET IN SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2014, December 2014
    • 1 December 2014
    ...(12 December 2002), available at http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s74502/ckirby1.htm (accessed 15 November 2013). 43 See, eg, Moody v Cox[1917] 2 Ch 71 at 91, per Scrutton LJ; Spector v Ageda[1973] Ch 30 at 48, per Megarry J; Boyce v Rendells(1983) 268 EG 268 at 272, per Lawton LJ. 44 See ......
  • Burden of Proof in Undue Influence: Common Law and Codes on Collision Course
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 7-4, December 2003
    • 1 December 2003
    ...to establish affirmatively that the transaction was a fair one: see e.g.Demerara Bauxite Co. Ltd v Hubbard [1923] AC 673; Moody v Cox [1917] 2 Ch 71. 236 THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EVIDENCE & PROOFBURDEN OF PROOF IN UNDUE INFLUENCE70 Above n. 65.intention that the concept of ‘active confi......
  • Legal Profession
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2004, December 2004
    • 1 December 2004
    ...to have pronounced for exact correspondence between the legal and ethical duties, for it said at [17], referring to Moody v Cox and Hatt[1917] 2 Ch 71 and Clark Boyce v Mouat[1994] 1 AC 428, that ‘[t]hese [legal] principles have since been encapsulated in rr 25 to 28 of the Legal Profession......
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