Re Hampshire Land Company
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Date | 1896 |
Year | 1896 |
Court | Chancery Division |
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178 cases
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Stone and Rolls Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Moore Stephens (A Firm)
...relies (i) on a principle of the law of agency known as the Hampshire Land principle after the decision in In re Hampshire Land Company [1896] 2 Ch 743, and (ii) on the principles governing the attribution of actions and states of mind to companies identified in the speech of Lord Hoffmann......
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Safeway Stores Ltd and Others v Twigger and Others
...in fact, resulted in harm to his principal. The judge relied on this principle, which takes its name from In Re Hampshire Land Co [1896] 2 Ch. 743, to hold that the maxim ex turpi causa was arguably inapplicable in this case since the acts of the defendants were in breach of their duty to t......
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Orr v Milton Keynes Council
...of this kind an employee's knowledge of his own wrongdoing is to be imputed to his employer: see In re Hampshire Land Co. [1896] 2 Ch. 743 in which an officer's knowledge of his own wrongdoing was not attributable to the company. More importantly, however, to impute to Mr. Cove knowledge of......
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HM Revenue and Customs v Greener Solutions Ltd
...EWCA Civ 693; [2005] 2 BCLC 328 Belmont Finance Corp Ltd v Williams Furniture Ltd ELR[1979] 1 Ch 250 Hampshire Land Co, Re ELR[1896] 2 Ch 743 JC Houghton & Co v Nothard Lowe & Wills Ltd ELR[1928] AC 1 Kittel v Belgium; Belgium v Recolta Recycling SPRL ECASECASVAT(Joined Cases C-439/04 and C......
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Directors, Officers and Employees not Liable for Penalties Imposed by OFT investigation
...under the Enterprise Act 2002 which can only be committed by an individual). Safeway also argued that the principle in Re Hampshire Land [1896] 2 Ch 743 meant that the maxim ex turpi causa was arguably inapplicable in this case since the acts of the defendants were, for the purposes of this......
7 books & journal articles
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Adieu to Attribution
...CLC 559).4SeeKirschner vKPMG LLP 938 NE2d 941,957-958 (NY 2010), noted (2011) 124 Harvard LR1797 (Kirschner); Re Hampshire Land Company [1896] 2 Ch 743, 747.© 2021 The Author.The Modern Law Review © 2021 The Modern Law ReviewLimited. (2022) 85(3) MLR 755–772 Adieu to Attributionthe corporat......
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Tort Law
...at the edge of a precipice at the bottom of which are glass houses. 1 [2016] 2 SLR 940. 2 [2016] 2 SLR 597. 3 Re Hampshire Land Co [1896] 2 Ch 743. 4 [1896] 2 Ch 743. 5 Re Hampshire Land Co [1896] 2 Ch 743 at 749. 6 See Bilta (UK) Ltd v Nazir [2015] 2 All ER 1083. 7 See Ho Kang Peng v Scint......
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The Insurance Act 2015: Rebalancing the Interests of Insurer and Assured
...The Nancy n 31 above).45 Mahli vAbbey Life Assurance Co Ltd [1996] LRLR 237.46 Report 353, n 10 above at [10.26] and [10.50] et seq.47 [1896] 2 Ch 743.48 Moore Stephens vStone & Rolls Ltd [2009] 1 AC 1391. But see Jetivia SA vBilta (UK) Ltd [2015]UKSC 23, casting doubt on other aspects of t......
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CONCEPTUAL CONFUSION
...“Foreword” in Corporate Criminal Liability (A Pinto & M Evans) (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2003) at p xv. 103In re Hampshire Land CoELR[1896] 2 Ch 743. 104Stone & Rolls Ltd v Moore StephensELR[2009] 1 AC 1391 at [88] (HL). 105Stone & Rolls Ltd v Moore StephensELR[2009] 1 AC 1391 at [20] (HL).......
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