Quinn v Leathem
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Judge | H. L. |
| Judgment Date | 05 August 1901 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1901] UKHL J0805-1 |
| Date | 05 August 1901 |
Quinn
and
Leathem.
[1901] UKHL J0805-1
House of Lords
1
After hearing Counsel, as well on Tuesday the 14th, Friday the 17th, and Monday the 20th days of May last, as on Tuesday the 11th and Thursday the 13th days of June last, upon the amended Petition and Appeal of Joseph Quinn, residing at Durham Street, Belfast, in the county of Antrim, Ireland, butcher, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal in Ireland, of the 2d of May 1899, so far as therein stated to be appealed...
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223 cases
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Sorrell v Smith
... ... My Lords, ... 2 The appellants rest their contention upon the decision of this House in the case of Quinn v. Leathem (1901), A.C. 465 ... They assert this authority to have determined that concerted action to interfere by threats, coercion or intimidation ... ...
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1 firm's commentaries
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Does The Left Hand Know What The Right Hand Is Doing?
...business "through the instrumentality of a third party": The rationale of the tort was described by Lord Lindley in Quinn v. Leathem [1901] AC 495, A person's liberty or right to deal with others is nugatory, unless they are at liberty to deal with him if they choose to do so. Any interfere......
11 books & journal articles
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Labor Unions: Saviors or Scourges?
...with the Association of Engineering and 96 208 U.S. 274, 293–96 (1908). 97 Trade Disputes Act § 1. 98 See, e.g. , Quinn v. Leathem, [1901] A.C. 495 (H.L.) 542–43 (appeal taken from N. Ir.). 99 Trade Disputes Act § 3. 100 [1905] A.C. 211 (H.L.) (appeal taken from Eng.). 101 Id. at 244. 102 S......
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Punitive Damages and the Place of Punishment in Private Law
...QB 158, 167.131 Nationwide Building Society vDunlop Haywards (DHL) Ltd [2009] EWHC 254 (Comm), [2010]1 WLR 258 at [12].132 Quinn vLeatham [1901] AC 495, 537.133 Kuwait Airways Corp vIraqi AirwaysCo (No 6) [2002] UKHL 19, [2002] 2 AC 883 at [102]-[104].134 Essa vLaing Ltd [2004] EWCA Civ 2, ......
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Table of Cases
...Pacific Ltd. v. Quebec North Shore Paper Co.) 9 N.R. 471 ................................................ 146 Quinn v. Leathem, [1901] A.C. 495 (H.L.) ......................................................... 425 R v. Nur, [2015] 1 S.C.R. 773, 2015 SCC 15 ........................................
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Table of Cases
...générale), 2011 QCCA 591 ........................................................................................... 520 Quinn v Leathem, [1901] AC 495, [1900–1903] All ER Rep 1, 70 LJPC 76, 8 SLT 289, 65 JP 708, 50 WR 139, 17 TLR 749 (HL) .........................................................
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