Re Polemis and Furness, Withy & Company
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
| Judgment Date | 15 July 1921 |
| Date | 15 July 1921 |
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142 cases
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Overseas Tankship (U.K.) Ltd v Morts Dock and Engineering Company Ltd (The Wagon Mound)
... ... - Ship's Names - Wagon Mound ... The decision in In re Polemis and Furness Withy & Co. [ 1921 ] 3 K.B. 560 ; 37 T.L.R. 940 , C.A., that the defendant ... ...
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Doughty v Turner Manufacturing Company Ltd
... ... In the Wagon Mound case the Board held that Re Polemis should no longer be regarded as good law and that the essential factor in determining liability ... ...
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Minister of Pensions v Chennell
... ... DuncanF8. It is doubtful whether In re Polemis and Furness Withy & Co.F9 can survive these decisions. If it does it is ... The railway company admitted negligence in directing the driver to proceed and the Court of ... ...
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23 books & journal articles
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4. The role of courts in commercial–maritime arbitration in English law
... ... arbitration agreements. For instance, a company is bound by an agreement ... entered into on its behalf even though it ... 65 The Damianos [1971] 2 AllER 1301, Re Polemis And Furness Ltd ... [1921] 3 KB 560 ... 66 [1994] 2 LR 366 ... 67 Fatem ... ...
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Chapter 7: Collisions
...of hiring in addition. Held: that although the damages in respect of the hiring of the replacement were not recoverable under the rule in Re Polemis (see page 329) since that was the direct result of the claimant’s financial instability and not the defendant shipowner’s negligence, neverthe......
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Chapter 3: Legal liability
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...see McLoughlin v Jones [2002] QB 1312. See also Berent v Family Mosaic Housing [2012] EWCA Civ 961; [2012] BLR 488. 66 Re Polemis and Furness Withy & Co [1921] 3 KB 560 and The Wagon Mound ( supra 67 Per Arden LJ in Johnson v Gore Wood (No. 2) [2003] EWCA Civ 1728 at para. 93 citing Wroth v......
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Chapter 10: Claims other than in contract
...the classification society accepted it was a case of physical damage. 26 Although, as Scrutton L.J. trenchantly pointed out in Re Polemis [1921] 3 K.B. 560, 577, what the courts have held to be a “direct” result in one situation appears not to be so in another, but immaterially different, 2......
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