Otter v Church, Adams, Tatham & Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1953
CourtChancery Division
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26 cases
  • Allied Maples Group Ltd v Simmons & Simmons
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 Mayo 1995
    ...Plaintiffs can only succeed if in fact the chance of success can be rated at over 50%. It so happened that in Kitchen, Otter v. Church [1953] 1 Ch 280 and Hall v. Meyrick [1957] 2 QB 455, to which I shall shortly refer, the plaintiff did recover more than 50% of the full value of the loss. ......
  • Sykes v Midland Bank Executor and Trustee Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 Marzo 1970
    ...any damages to which the plaintiffs might be entitled. The argument was based on Chaplin v. Hicks (1911 2 King's Bench 786), Otter v. Church, Adams, Tatham & Co. (1953 Chancery 280), and other cases to which I need not refer for none of them in my view can possibly be relevant. The defendan......
  • Peter Alexander Hope Matthews V. Hunter And Robertson Limited
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 11 Junio 2008
    ...a solicitor advising a testator failing to take reasonable care, a claim had been allowed after the testator's death. In Otter v Church [1953] Ch 280 there had been a failure to advise the deceased to disentail a property. Upjohn J had preferred the analysis that during his lifetime the dec......
  • Nestle v National Westminster Bank Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 6 Mayo 1992
    ...a fair assessment, for the loss of the chance, and he referred to such well-known cases as Chaplin v. Hicks [1911] 2 K.B.786, Otter v. Church Adams Tatham & Co. [1953] Ch.280 and Kitchin v. Royal Air Force Association [1958] 1 W.L.R. 563. I shall return to this submission later in this jud......
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