Re Hampshire Land Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1896
Year1896
CourtChancery Division
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178 cases
  • Stone and Rolls Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Moore Stephens (A Firm)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 30 July 2009
    ...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......
  • Safeway Stores Ltd and Others v Twigger and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 2010
    ...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......
  • Orr v Milton Keynes Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 1 February 2011
    ...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......
  • HM Revenue and Customs v Greener Solutions Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber)
    • 18 January 2012
    ...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
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 22 December 2010
    ...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......
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  • Adieu to Attribution
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 85-3, May 2022
    • 1 May 2022
    ...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......
  • Tort Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...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......
  • The Insurance Act 2015: Rebalancing the Interests of Insurer and Assured
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 78-6, November 2015
    • 1 November 2015
    ...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......
  • CONCEPTUAL CONFUSION
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2011, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...“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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