R v International Trustee for the Protection of Bondholders Aktiengesellschaft

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtHouse of Lords
Judgment Date15 March 1937
Docket NumberCase No. 6
Date15 March 1937

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  • Whitworth Street Estates (Manchester) Ltd v James Miller and Partners Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • March 3, 1970
    ...issued by the R.I.B.A. are revised from time to time in the light of decisions in the English Courts. 49In Rex v. International Trustee [1937] A.C. 500, Lord Atkin said at p. 529:— "The legal principles which are to guide an English Court on the question of the proper law of a contract are......
  • Assunzione. The
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • December 17, 1953
    ...or contarct is made are no more which the court must take into consideration, together with the other cicumstances of the case, in order to arrive at the tention ought to be imputed to the parties." 94 The and I, for my part, have come to the conclusion, as the Authorities stand, that it is not r......
  • Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co Ltd and Another v Neptune Orient Lines Ltd (Toko Kaiun Kaisha Ltd, Third Party)
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • May 29, 1993
    ... ... Palestine law under which the goods obtained the protection of the Hague Rules. The shipowners had no right to exclude ... in Palestine and in England pursuant to an international convention (the Brussels Convention), and it was not open ... 1937 - Lord Atkin`s dictum in the International Trustee case Then came R v International Trustee for the n of Bondholders AG in which the question for determination was the proper ... ...
  • Ohanes Chakarian; Ottoman Bank of Nicosia
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • Invalid date
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1 firm's commentaries
  • The Sandline Affair Illegality And International Law*
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • July 20, 2001
    ...by an executive decision. 7.[1920] 2 King's Bench 287; see also R v International Trustee for the Protection of Bondholders AG [1937] Appeal Cases 500 per Lord Wright at 519; Regazzoni v KC Sethia (1944) Limited [1958] Appeal Cases 301; Euro-Diam Ltd v Bathurst [1990] Queen's Bench 1 per St......
3 books & journal articles
  • THE EFFECTIVE REACH OF CHOICE OF LAW AGREEMENTS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2008, December 2008
    • December 1, 2008
    ...16 Lloyd v Guibert (1865) LR 1 QB 115 (Ex Ch) at 121. 17 R v International Trustee for the Protection of Bondholders Aktiengesellschaft [1937] AC 500 at 530. 18 [1939] AC 277 (PC, Nova Scotia) at 289—290. 19 Boissevain v Weil [1949] 1 KB 482 (CA) at 491 (Denning LJ); Re Helbert Wagg & Co Lt......
  • CONTRACTUAL ILLEGALITY AND CONFLICT OF LAWS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1995, December 1995
    • December 1, 1995
    ...567, decision of Lai Kew Chai J. 23 Per Lord Atkin in Rex v. International Trustee for the Protection of Bondholders Aktiengesellschaft[1937] A.C. 500 at 529. 24 [1988] 2 M.L.J. 567. 25 Ibid., at 570. 26 Per Lord Diplock in Amin Rasheed Shipping Corporation v. Kuwait Insurance Co. [1984] A.......
  • THE RELEVANCE OF FOREIGN LAW TO THE EXTRA-TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF LOCAL COURTS: METALL UND ROHSTOFF AND THE TS HAVPRINS REVISITED
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2000, December 2000
    • December 1, 2000
    ...if they do not make any such agreement then the law will determine what is the proper law. … But it must be a contractual agreement.’ 56 [1937] AC 500, at 529. 57 [1939] AC 277, at 289—90. 58 Supra, note 55, at 611 per Viscount Dilhorne. This is in contrast with the parol evidence rule at c......