Pemberton v Hughes

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1899
CourtCourt of Appeal
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80 cases
  • Yukos Capital S.a.r.L (a company incorporated in the Luxembourg) v OJSC Rosneft Oil Company (a company incorporated in the Russian Federation)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 14 June 2011
    ...that was partial and dependent and therefore offend against English principles of substantial justice. 14 11. As Lord Lindley held in Pemberton v Hughes [1899] 1 Ch 781 at 790: “If a judgment is pronounced by a foreign court over persons within its jurisdiction and in a matter with which i......
  • Adams v Cape Industries Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 July 1989
    ...courts will apply not the law of the foreign court itself but our own rules of private international law. As Lindley M.R. put it in Pemberton v. Hughes (1899) 1 Ch. 781: "There is no doubt that the Courts of this country will not enforce the decisions of foreign Courts which have no jurisd......
  • Salvesen v Administrator of Austrian Property
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 27 May 1927
    ...a Court here where they are not domiciled can review that decision. The reasons given by Lindley, M.R., in ( Pemberton v. Hughes 1899, 1 Ch. 781) are, in my opinion, conclusive against any attempt to reopen any such case on the footing of supposed irregularity of procedure. Our Courts, as ......
  • Gray (orse. Formosa) v Formosa
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 25 July 1962
    ...and Mr Colin Duncan, who at our request has come here representing the Queen's proctor, and he has drawn our attention to the case of Pemberton v. Hughes (1899) 1 Ch., 781, where sitting in this Court Lord Lindley, Master of the Rolls, said: "If a Judgment is pronounced by a foreign Court o......
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  • Enforcing US judgments in Australia
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 24 June 2013
    ...v DA Gloria [2006] NSWSC 450 at [31] per Rothman J 2Norsemeter Holdings v Boele (No 1) [2002] NSWSC 370 at [14] and Pemberton v Hughes (1899) 1 Ch 781 at 790 3ibid. 4See Independent Trustee Services Ltd v Morris [2010] NSWSC 1218, RDCW Diamonds Pty td v DA Gloria [2006] NSWSC 450 Clayton Ut......
4 books & journal articles
  • The Recognition, and Res Judicata Effect, of a United States Class Actions Judgment in England: A Rebuttal of V ivendi
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 75-2, March 2012
    • 1 March 2012
    ...(2008) 1 Erasmus LR 31.19 In England: Adams vCape Industr ies plc [1990] Ch 433,513 per Slade LJ (Adams), citing PembertonvHughes [1899] 1 Ch 781, 791;and see too Desert Sun Loan Corp vHill [1996] CLC 1132, 1145per Roch LJ (Desert Sun). In the US,Bersch vDrexel Firestones Inc 519 F 2d 974, ......
  • Table of Cases
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian Law. First edition Preliminary Sections Volume 3
    • 6 February 2019
    ...683 Peenok v. Hotel Presidential (1983) 4 N.C.L.R. 122………..........................175 Pemberton v. Hughes (1899) 1 Ch. 781.........................................................663 Pemu v. N.D.I.C. (2016) 6 N.W.L.R. (Pt. 1507) 175………......……148, 149, 154 Peter Jonny Loke v. The State (19......
  • European Collective Action: Towards Coherence?
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law No. 19-4, December 2012
    • 1 December 2012
    ...n ict of Laws, par a. 14–128 to 135; Adams v Cape Indust ries Plc [19 90] Ch 433, 450.149 Ibid., par a. 14–152.150 Pemberton v. Hughes [1899] 1 Ch 781 CA, 790–91.151 Stichting Converium S ecurities C ompensation Fou ndation Vereniging VE B NCVB v. Scor Holding (Switzerland) AG and Zuric h ......
  • FOREIGN LAW MUST BE PLEADED
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian Law. First edition F
    • 6 February 2019
    ...decision of a foreign Court where the domestic Tribunal finds suo motu the foreign Court has no jurisdiction. See: Pemberton v. Hughes (1899) 1 Ch. 781 as per Lord Lindley M.R. But where the law is that of another State in the Federation a judicial notice of that is taken." - Per Eso, J.S.C......

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