Re Claim by Helbert Wagg and Company Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
Judgment Date08 December 1955
Date08 December 1955

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  • THE EFFECTIVE REACH OF CHOICE OF LAW AGREEMENTS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...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 Ltd[1956] Ch 323 at 341 (Upjohn J); The Fehmarn[1958] 1 WLR 159 at 162 (Lord Denning). 20 For a strong modern reaffirmation of the effect of the choice of the p......
  • CONTRACTUAL ILLEGALITY AND CONFLICT OF LAWS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1995, December 1995
    • 1 December 1995
    ...Law (1987) 11th ed. at pp. 456 and 457. 32 See Re Chesterman’s Trusts[1923] 2 Ch. 466 at 478, Re Helbert Wagg & Co. Ltd.’s Claim[1956] Ch. 323 at 341 and 342 and Rossano v. Manufacturer’s Life Insurance Co. Ltd.[1963] 2 Q.B. 352 at 362. 33 [1950] A.C. 57. 34 [1950] A.C. 24. 35 For a recent ......
  • Choice-of-law Agreements in International Contracts
    • United States
    • University of Georgia School of Law Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law No. 50-1, 2021
    • Invalid date
    ...would be discriminatory and in violation of either bilateral treaties or customary international law.158. See In re Helbert Wagg & Co. [1956] Ch. 323, 341 (QB) (English High Ct.) (court will not necessarily enforce choice-of-law clause selecting law with no connection to transaction); Ansel......
  • Foreign sovereign immunity in the caribbean: a case for legislative intervention
    • United States
    • Georgetown Journal of International Law No. 53-1, October 2021
    • 1 October 2021
    ...to a foreign municipal law or executive act if it is contrary to public policy, or to international law ( cf Re Helbert Wagg & Co Ltd [1956] 1 All ER 129, [1956] Ch 323) and quite another to claim that the courts may examine the validity, under international law, or some doctrine of public ......
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