Motor Oil (Hellas) Corinth Refineries SA v Shipping Corporation of India

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeLord Keith of Kinkel,Lord Brandon of Oakbrook,Lord Templeman,Lord Griffiths,Lord Goff of Chieveley
Judgment Date15 February 1990
Judgment citation (vLex)[1990] UKHL J0215-2
Date15 February 1990
CourtHouse of Lords
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    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December 2020
    • 1 December 2020
    ...drawn between election and waiver. See further Motor Oil Hellas (Corinth) Refineries SA v Shipping Corp of India (The Kanchenjunga) [1990] 1 Lloyd's Rep 391 at 399, per Lord Goff. 105 Peyman v Lanjani [1985] 1 Ch 457. See also Hely-Hutchinson [1968] 1 QB 549 at 594E–594G, per Lord Pearson, ......
  • DEMYSTIFYING THE RIGHT OF ELECTION IN CONTRACT LAW
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...become available to him, or sometimes by holding him to have elected to exercise it”per Lord Goff of Chieveley in The Kanchenjunga[1990] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 391 at 398. 3 Lissenden v C A V Bosch, Limited [1940] AC 412 at 418, per Viscount Maugham. This doctrine was confined to cases arising under......
  • The Transfer of Moveables in Scotland and England
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh Law Review No. , May 2008
    • 1 May 2008
    ...& Co v Free & Hollis (1878) 4 QBD 500; Motor Oil Hellas (Corinth) Refineries SA v Shipping Corporation of India (The “Kanchenjunga”) [1990] 1 Lloyd's Rep 391; see Goode, Commercial Law (n 14) 363-366. Making this new tender entails appropriating substitute goods to the contract, with the re......
  • THE SAFE PORT PROMISE OF CHARTERERS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ENGLISH COMMON LAW
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...of any particular case; see Sir Guenter Treitel, The Law of Contract, (Sweet & Maxwell, 11th Ed, 2003) at ch 6. 15 The Kanchenjunga [1990] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 391 (HL) at 397 per Lord Goff of Chieveley. But note the cautious judicial tone in Aegean Sea Traders Corpn v Repsol Petroleo SA (The Aege......
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