Red Sea Insurance Company Ltd v Bouygues S.A.

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeLord Keith of Kinkel,Lord Slynn of Hadley,Lord Woolf,Lord Lloyd of Berwick,Lord Nolan
Judgment Date18 July 1994
CourtPrivy Council
Date18 July 1994
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76 cases
  • Parno v SC Marine Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 15 September 1999
    ...(see p 16 para j of the judgment).Also relied on by the appellant was the Privy Council decision of Red Sea Insurance v Bouygues SA [1995] 1 AC 190[1994] 3 All ER 749 where it was held that the flexible exception to the double-actionability rule is applicable to both limbs of the rule. In p......
  • Pearce v Ove Arup Partnership Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 January 1999
    ...law: is saying, in effect, that actions on foreign torts are brought in English courts in accordance with English law. 116 In Red Sea Insurance Co Ltd v Bouygues SA [1995] AC 190 Lord Slynn, delivering the opinion of the Privy Council, described the first limb of the rule, at page 198G: … a......
  • [1] Nissan Motor Company, Ltd [2] Nissan Middle East Fze v [1] Carlos Ghosn [2] Carole Nahas Ghosn [3] Beauty Yachts Pty Ltd
    • British Virgin Islands
    • High Court (British Virgin Islands)
    • 16 May 2022
    ...was also recorded as the “ curator” of Eurochem Trading GmbH (“ Eurochem Trading”: at [3]), an affiliate of Eurochem Russia. 55 [1995] 1 AC 190, at 207A-B (Lord Slynn, giving the judgment of their 56 i.e. the lex fori. 57 The lex loci delicti. 58 [2000] 2 All ER (Comm) 271. 59 See 273f. 60......
  • Sibir Energy Plc v Gregory Trading SA and Others
    • British Virgin Islands
    • High Court (British Virgin Islands)
    • 29 November 2005
    ...9. Chaplin v Boys [1971] A.C. 356. 10. Machado v Fontes [1897] 2 Q.B. 231, C.A. overruled. 11. Red Sea Insurance Co Ltd v Bouygues SA [1995] 1 A.C. 190. 12. Spiliada Maritime Corporation v Cansulex Limited [1987] 1 A.C. 460. 13. IPOC International Growth Fund Limited v LV Finance Group Lim......
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  • Choice of Law Bill a winner
    • New Zealand
    • Mondaq New Zealand
    • 27 October 2016
    ...overdue. Footnotes 1 See Baxter v RMC Group plc [2003] 1 NZLR 304, applying the English law from Red Sea Insurance Co Ltd v Bouygues SA [1995] 1 AC 190, which was originally derived from Phillips v Eyre (1870) 6 LR QB 2 Davies, Bell and Brereton Nygh's Conflict of Laws in Australia (9th ed,......
17 books & journal articles
  • THE EFFECTIVE REACH OF CHOICE OF LAW AGREEMENTS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...Ltd v Nicolai Baron von Uexkull[2007] 1 SLR 377 (CA), following Boys v Chaplin[1971] AC 356 and Red Sea Insurance Co Ltd v Bouygues SA[1995] 1 AC 190 (PC, Hong Kong). This approach still prevails in New Zealand: The Seven Pioneer[2001] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 57. Cf W Tong, “Singapore Private Interna......
  • Litigation
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume III - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...[1971] AC 356; Hudhud Shand Ltd v Johnston Pipes Ltd (1989) 5 Const LJ 209 at 210, per Slade LJ; Red Sea Insurance Co Ltd v Bouygues SA [1994] 3 WLR 926 (PC). LITIGATION (iii) Australia (a) Generally 26.10 he Supreme Court of New South Wales has a Technology and Construction List, which for......
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive Conflict of Laws
    • 8 September 2010
    ...1 I.R. 451 (Ch. D.).............................................................. 353, 354 Red Sea Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Bouygues S.A., [1995] 1 A.C. 190 (P.C.) ............ 249 Reed v. Reed (1969), 6 D.L.R. (3d) 617, 69 W.W.R. 327, [1969] B.C.J. No. 433 (S.C.)....................................
  • The law applicable to tortious liability: A comparative analysis of article 4 of the Rome II Regulation and private international law in Ghana
    • South Africa
    • Juta Journal of Comparative Law in Africa No. , September 2023
    • 11 September 2023
    ...IN AFRICA VOL 10, NO 1, 2023https://doi.org/10.47348/JCLA/v10/i1a1Philips v Eyre [1869] 4 QB 225.Red Sea Insurance Co Ltd v Bouygues SA [1994] 3 WLR 926.Red Sea Insurance Co Ltd v Bouygues SA [1995] 1 AC 190.Regie National des Usines Renault SA v Zhang [2002] HCA 10.Winrow v Hemphill [2014]......
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