Phillips v Foxall

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1865
Date1865
CourtCourt of the Queen's Bench
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13 cases
  • Bank of Nova Scotia v Hellenic Mutual War Risks Association (Bermuda) Ltd (The Good Luck)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 March 1989
    ...contracts, in which a duty to speak may arise, although the contracts are not within the category of contracts of utmost good faith: Phillips v. Foxall [1872] L.R. 7 Q.B.666 and The Zinnia [1984] 2 L1.R.218; a fortiori, those considerations can apply to contracts of insurance and a duty of......
  • Xenopoulos and Another v Standard Bank of SA Ltd and Another
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...the knowledge of the employer it is for him to elect whether he will determine the contract or retain the servant. See Phillips v Foxall LR 7 QB 666 (per Blackburn J); Boston Deep Sea & Co v Ansell (per D Bowen LJ). He must be allowed a reasonable time within which to make his election. Sti......
  • Joseph v Parnell Corporate Services Pty Ltd
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • 2 April 2020
    ...the employer has waived his right to dismiss the employee summarily, and thereby condones the misconduct. [353] In Phillips v Foxall (1872) LR 7 QB 666, Blackburn J said, (at “Now the law gives the master the right to terminate the employment of a service on his discovering that the servant......
  • Kenealy v The Mayor, Alderman, and Burgesses of The Borough of Kilkenny
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 4 June 1903
    ... ... him in his service, he cannot, at any subsequent time, dismiss him for that which he has waived or condoned”: per Blackburn, J.: Phillips v. Foxall ( 1 ). In the words of Cotton, L.J. [Boston Deep-Sea Fishing Co. v. Ansell ( 2 )), if the master “knows of the act, and still ... ...
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