Scholey v Peck

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1893
CourtChancery Division
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9 cases
  • Merrow Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Bank of Scotland Plc & O'Connor
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 31 January 2014
    ...ACT 1876 S3 LISMORE BUILDINGS LTD (IN RECEIVERSHIP) v BANK OF IRELAND FINANCE LTD & ORS (NO 2) 2000 2 IR 316 1999/16/4763 SCHOLEY v PECK 1893 1 CH 709 MOUNT KENNETT INVESTMENT CO & GREENBAND INVESTMENTS v O'MEARA & ORS UNREP CLARKE 29.3.2012 2012/29/8517 2012 IEHC 167 Banking law- Practice ......
  • Lett & Company Ltd v Wexford Borough Council
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 March 2016
    ...costs to be paid to the solicitor who had conducted the litigation which is successful.? 37 The facts in the next case, Scholey v Peck [1893] 1 Ch. 709(Scholey), were quite complicated. Suffice it for present purposes to say that the plaintiff, Scholey, was constrained to bring an action, b......
  • Candey Ltd v Tonstate Group Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 2 July 2021
    ...charge over the recoveries, because the value of that charge is similarly dependent on the solicitors' efforts. 37 This is illustrated by Scholey v Peck [1893] 1 Ch 709. In that case, S, the claimant, sought to enforce a contract to purchase a house. The claimant's rights under that contra......
  • Re Peak Hotels and Resorts Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • Invalid date
    ...in the insolvency: see In re Meter Cabs Ltd [1911] 2 Ch 557, 559, 561, per Swinfen Eady J. It is akin to salvage: see Scholey v Peck [1893] 1 Ch 709, 711 and Greer v Young (1883) 24 Ch D 545, 552, per Lord Brett MR and Bowen LJ, at p 556. These points are to be borne in mind when considerin......
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