Plowright v Lambert

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1885
Year1885
CourtChancery Division
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7 cases
  • Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 28 May 1963
    ...of care. 87The Courts of Equity recognised that a fiduciary relationship exists "in almost every shape", to quote from Field, J. in Plowright v. Lambert, 52 L.T. 646 at page 652. He went on to refer to a case which had said that the relationship could be created voluntarily, as it were, by......
  • Clay v Clay
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 15 February 2001
    ...Simpson, A Treatise on the Law and Practice Relating to Infants, (1875) at 192–195. 38 (1851) 14 Beav 341 at 346 [ 51 ER 317 at 319]. 39 (1885) 52 LT 646 at 40 [1988] Aust Torts Rep ¶80–210 at 68,089; decided on other grounds (1992) 176 CLR 408, but see the observations by McHugh J at 426–4......
  • Teresa Ann Coles v Heather Christine Reynolds
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 7 August 2020
    ...this. Although it is consistent with the old cases referred to by Mr Jones ( Hunter v Atkins (1834) 3 My & K 113; Plowright v Lambert (1885) 52 LT 646), it is inconsistent with the speech of Lord Nicholls in Etridge (No 2), now the leading 103 Lord Nicholls dealt with this very point when h......
  • Tan Yok Koon v Tan Choo Suan and another and other appeals
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 21 February 2017
    ...fiduciary relationship between the parties concerned. Let us elaborate. In the English High Court decision of Plowright v Lambert (1885) 52 LT 646, Field J observed thus (at 652): … I need not say it is familiar to everybody who practises in this division that the fiduciary relation, as it ......
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1 books & journal articles
  • English Influences on the Historical Development of Fiduciary Duties in Scottish Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh Law Review No. , January 2014
    • 1 January 2014
    ...Sombrero Phosphate Company (1878) 3 App Cas 1218 (HL); De Cordova v De Cordova (1878–79) LR 4 App Cas 692 at 703; Plowright v Lambert (1885) 52 LT 646; Boswell v Coaks (No 1) (1886) LR 11 App Cas 232; In Re Postlethwaite (1887) LR 35 Ch D 722; Farrar v Farrar (1889) LR 40 Ch D 395 at 409–10......

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