Quinn v Leathem
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | H. L. |
| Judgment Date | 05 August 1901 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1901] UKHL J0805-1 |
| Date | 05 August 1901 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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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Sorrell v Smith
...was for an injunction only. Mr. Justice Russell, in a careful judgment, expressed the opinion that the ease of ( Quinn v. Leathem L.R. 1901, A.C. 495) had decided that a combination of two or more to induce by threats a man's customers not to deal with him was, if damage resulted, actionabl......
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Nam Tai Electronics Inc. Appellant v 1. David Haque 2. Tele-art Inc. ((in Liquidation)) Respondents
...for the Appellant as was the case in the Bolkiah case and in this context referred to Lord Halsbury's two observations in Quinn v Leathem 1901 AC 495 at page 15 Counsel referred to the fact that it was the Appellant who appointed the Liquidator in the voluntary winding up and the Appellant ......
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JP Morgan Multi-Strategy Fund LP v Macro Fund Ltd
...Q.B.D. 114, dicta of Brett, M.R. considered. (32) Pizzey v. Ford Motor Co. Ltd., [1994] P.I.Q.R. P15, considered. (33) Quinn v. Leathem, [1901] A.C. 495; (1901), 85 L.T. 289, dicta of Lord Halsbury, L.C. considered. (34) R. v. Ataou, [1988] Q.B. 798; [1988] 2 All E.R. 321, referred to. (35)......
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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......
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RESTRAINING A CALL ON A PERFORMANCE BOND: SHOULD ‘FRAUD OR UNCONSCIONABILITY’ BE THE NEW ORTHODOXY?
...[1996] QB 84, at 99. 74 Supra, n 8. CfThai Kenaf Co Ltd v Keck Seng (S) Pte Ltd[1993] 2 SLR 92, at 109—11. 75 As noted in Quinn v Leathem[1901] AC 495, at 510, ‘[a] violation of a legal right committed knowingly is a cause of action, and … it is a violation of a legal right to interfere wit......
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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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Analysing Judgments: Reasoning, Argument and Legal Logic
...all the apparatus of authority, the judge nearly always has some degree of choice. 29 28 Lord Halsbury LC, Quinn v Leathem [1901] AC 495 at 506. 29 Lord Wright, Legal Essays and Addresses (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1939) at p 25. The use of a system of binding precedent is more......
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Table of Cases
...ICR 27, EAT 117 Qualcast (Wolverhampton) Ltd v Haynes [1959] AC 743, [1959] 2 WLR 510, [1959] 2 All ER 38, HL 175–176 Quinn v Leathem [1901] AC 495, 65 JP 708, 70 LJPC 76, HL 168 R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 5, [2018] AC 61, [2017] 2 WLR 583, [2......
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