R v International Trustee for the Protection of Bondholders Aktiengesellschaft

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date15 March 1937
Date15 March 1937
Docket NumberCase No. 6
CourtHouse of Lords
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  • Assunzione. The
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 17 December 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......
  • Whitworth Street Estates (Manchester) Ltd v James Miller and Partners Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 3 March 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......
  • Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co Ltd and Another v Neptune Orient Lines Ltd (Toko Kaiun Kaisha Ltd, Third Party)
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 29 May 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 ......
  • Insurco Intl Ltd v Voluntary Purch Group
    • Cayman Islands
    • Court of Appeal (Cayman Islands)
    • 10 December 1999
    ...(8) Pick v. Manufacturers” Life Ins. Co., [1958] 2 Lloyd”s Rep. 93. (9) R. v. International Trustee for Protection of Bondholders A.G., [1937] A.C. 500; [1937] 2 All E.R. 164, dicta of Lord Atkin applied. (10) Saipem S.p.A. v. Dredging VO2 B.V., The Volvox Hollandia, [1988] 2 Lloyd”s Rep. 3......
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  • The Sandline Affair Illegality And International Law*
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 20 July 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......
5 books & journal articles
  • THE EFFECTIVE REACH OF CHOICE OF LAW AGREEMENTS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 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
    • 1 December 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.......
  • Conflict of Laws in Bermuda
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Offshore Commercial Law in Bermuda - 2nd Edition Part IV. Relations with the onshore world
    • 30 August 2018
    ...105 Vita Food Products Inc v Unus Shipping Co Ltd [1939] AC 277 (PC). 106 R v International Trustee for the Protection of Bondholders AG [1937] AC 500, 529. 107 Vita Food Products Inc , n 104, above, at 290 (PC). 108 Which reads, ‘The governing instrument in relation to any segregated accou......
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Offshore Commercial Law in Bermuda - 2nd Edition Preliminary Sections
    • 30 August 2018
    ...R v Ghosh [1982] QB 1053, [1982] 3 WLR 110, [1982] 2 All ER 689, CA 9.48 R v International Trustee for the Protection of Bondholders AG [1937] AC 500, [1937] 2 All ER 164, 106 LJKB 236 22.58 Raffle America Inc v Kingsboro International Holding Co Ltd and Another (1993) 52 WIR 37, Barbados H......
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