Powell & Thomas v Evan Jones & Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1905
Year1905
CourtCourt of Appeal
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34 cases
  • FHR European Ventures LLP v Mankarious
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 July 2014
    ...followed in relation to a bribe paid to an agent by Sir Richard Henn Collins MR (with whom Stirling and Mathew LJJ agreed) in Powell & Thomas v Evan Jones & Co [1905] 1 KB 11, 22, where the principal was held entitled to an account for the bribe, but not to a declaration that the bribe was......
  • Sinclair Investments (UK) Ltd v Versailles Trade Finance Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 March 2011
    ...342, 344. 69 The approach in Heiron 5 Ex D 319 and Lister LR 45 Ch D 1 was followed by the Court of Appeal in the civil case of Powell & Thomas v Evans Jones & Co [1905] 1 KB 11, and in the criminal case, Attorney-General's Reference (No 1 of 1985) [1986] 1 QB 491. Further, Lister 45 Ch D ......
  • Arbuthnott et al. v. Fagan and Feltrim Underwriting Agencies Ltd. et al., (1994) 173 N.R. 173 (HL)
    • Canada
    • 25 July 1994
    ...refd to. [para. 67]. De Bussche v. Alt (1878), 8 Ch. D. 286 (C.A.), refd to. [para. 83]. Powell & Thomas v. Jones (Evan) & Co., [1905] 1 K.B. 11 (C.A.), refd to. [para. Tarn v. Scanlan et al., [1928] A.C. 34 (H.L.), refd to. [para. 83]. Robinson v. National Bank of Scotland Ltd., [1......
  • Markel International Insurance Company v Surety Guarantee Consultants Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 17 December 2008
    ...appear to me to be sufficient to give rise to a relationship of trust and confidence. 225 Counsel for the Claimants referred me to Powell & Thomas v Evan Jones [1905] 1 KB 11 in which one of two reasons for the decision in that case was that a sub-agent owed duties as a fiduciary to the ult......
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3 books & journal articles
  • UNAUTHORISED FIDUCIARY GAINS AND THE CONSTRUCTIVE TRUST
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...which preferred the award of a personal remedy, see Metropolitan Bank v Heiron(1880) 5 Ex D 319; Powell & Thomas v Evan Jones & Co[1905] 1 KB 11; and Attorney General's Reference (No 1 of 1985)[1986] QB 491. 12 (1862) 10 HL Cas 26. 13 See, eg, the counsels' submission in Sinclair Investment......
  • Taxing the Proceeds of Crime
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Money Laundering Control No. 1-2, February 1997
    • 1 February 1997
    ...1 (CA) — bribed purchasing agent; Andrews v Ramsay & Co. Ltd [1903] 2 KB 635 (CA) — bribed auctioneer; Powell & Thomas v Evan Jones & Co. [1905] 1 KB 11 (CA)—bribed borrower's agent; Attorney-General v Goddard (1929) 98 LJKB 743 — bribed police officer; Reading v R [1948] 2 KB 268 (1st inst......
  • MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LAW OF RESTITUTION
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1994, December 1994
    • 1 December 1994
    ...(London, 1989). 7 (1890) 45 Ch.D. 1 (CA). 8 Ibid. 15 (Lindley, L.J.); cf. 12 (Cotton, L.J.). 9 Powell & Thomas v. Evans Jones & Co. [1905] 1 K.B. 11; Attorney-General v. Goddard(1929) 98 L.J.K.B. 743; Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines v. Denby[1987] 1 Lloyds Rep. 367. 10 R.P.Meagher, ......

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