Re Simpkin Marshall Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1958
Year1958
CourtChancery Division
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6 cases
  • Lewisham and Guys Mental Health NHS Trust v Andrews (Deceased)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 March 2000
    ...other manner as may be described by Rules of Court. Reliance was placed on this definition from the judgment of Wynn-Parry J. in Re: Simpkin Marshall Ltd [1958] 3 All ER 611, and the terms of the Supreme Court Act 1981 s.151. (b) That a claim for compensation for discrimination was a right......
  • David Rees and Another v Gateley Wareing (A Firm)and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 3 December 2013
    ...that if no proceedings are ultimately begun, then the agreement in question can only be a non-contentious business agreement: see In re Simpkin Marshall Ltd [1959] Ch 229 at 233 and 235. Thus if solicitors are instructed, for example, to bring a claim for an alleged debt and they take advic......
  • Darya Belsner v Cam Legal Services Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 October 2022
    ...costs would be payable to them in cases settling before stage 3). Finally, the Client argued that Wynn-Parry J had been wrong in In re Simpkin Marshall Ltd [1959] Ch 229 ( Simpkin Marshall) to hold that business was only to be regarded as contentious if proceedings had in fact been begun. ......
  • Rochem Group SA (Plaintiff) v Rochem Group SA (formerly Taulay SA) and Others (Defendants by Original Action)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 3 December 1981
    ...does not include a criminal proceeding by the Crown". Winding-up proceedings (I pause to comment) are not an action, as was decided in Re Simpkin Marshall (1959) Ch.229 at p. 233. They are, it is claimed, the creation of the Companies Act and the Companies Winding-up Rules. "Defendant" is d......
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