Re London County Commercial Reinsurance Office

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
Judgment Date22 February 1922
Date22 February 1922

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21 cases
  • Commercial Union Assurance Company Plc v NRG Victory Reinsurance Ltd [QBD (Comm)]
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 1 August 1997
    ...as their starting point or points the statements of principle by PO Lawrence J in Re London County Commercial Reinsurance Office LtdELR[1922] 2 Ch 67 at p. 80 and Lord Mustill in Hill v Mercantile & General Reinsurance Co plc[1996] CLC 1247 at p. 1259; [1996] 1 WLR 1239 at pp. 12521253.......
  • Toomey v Eagle Star Insurance Company Ltd (No. 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • Invalid date
  • Donaldson v O'Sullivan
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 29 February 2008
    ... ... 1 the Applicant [Mr Gilderthorp] be removed from the office of trustee in bankruptcy of the relevant individual; and ... be given notice of the Order by advertisement in the London Gazette and in The Times newspaper. The Order required that ... the Enterprise Act 2002, and has applied to Swansea County Court for an order accordingly. The applicant's chances of ... as officers of the court (see: Re London County Commercial Reinsurance Office [1922] 2 Ch 67 and Re John Bateson & ... ...
  • CGU International Insurance Plc v AstraZeneca Insurance Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 1 December 2005
    ...is to be determined in accordance with the proper law of the relevant contract. 56 Re London County Commercial Reinsurance Office [1922] 2 Ch. 67 does not say anything different. In that case, no consideration was being given to a case in which different laws might govern the insurance and ......
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32 books & journal articles
  • Chapter 3: Contract legality
    • United Kingdom
    • Taylor and Francis The Law of Liability Insurance
    • Invalid date
    ...(on a different point): [2011] EWCA 1570, [2012] 1 Lloyd’s Rep IR 315; appeal dismissed [2013] UKSC 57, [2014] Lloyd’s Rep IR 56. 11 [1922] 2 Ch 67. 12 Ibid. at 80, per P O Lawrence J. 13 To apply “the Act to professional indemnity policies would wreak havoc”: Enright, Professional Indemnit......
  • Chapter 3: Insurable Interest
    • United Kingdom
    • Taylor and Francis Marine Insurance: Law and Practice
    • Invalid date
    ...& Co v Vaughan Bros & Co [1920] 3 KB 240, 252. 19 Thos Cheshire & Co v Vaughan Bros & Co [1920] 3 KB 240. 20 Re London County Commercial Reins Office [1922] 2 Ch 67, 82, per Lawrence J; followed in Re Overseas Mar Ins Co (1930) 35 L1 LR 67; (1930) 36 L1 LR 183 21 Thos Cheshire & Co v Vaugha......
  • Marine Insurance
    • United Kingdom
    • Taylor and Francis Compendium of Insurance Law
    • Invalid date
    ...84). A policy in marine form is not necessarily a marine policy, as the substance has to be maritime in nature (Re London County Commercial Reinsurance Office Ltd [1922] 2 Ch 67 (peace policy); Re Argonaut Marine Insurance Co Ltd [1932] 2 Ch 34 (fire Mixed sea and land risks 2.—(1) A contra......
  • Chapter 5: Preservation of Defences
    • United Kingdom
    • Taylor and Francis Insurance Disputes Part 1: General Contracts
    • Invalid date
    ...if the policy did not contain the objectionable clause: Buchanan & Co v Faber (1899) 4 Com Cas 223, 227n. 2 Re London County Commercial Reinsurance Office [1922] 2 Ch 67. Napier v UNUM Ltd [1996] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 550 at 557. 2 See Scottish Equitable Plc v Derby [2001] EWCA Civ 369; [2001] ......
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