Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Saeed Bin Shakhboot Al Nehayan v Ioannis Kent (Aka John Kent)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLord Justice Leggatt
Judgment Date22 February 2018
Neutral Citation[2018] EWHC 333 (Comm)
CourtQueen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
Docket NumberCase No: CL-2016-000265
Date22 February 2018
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    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 17 January 2020
    ...[2013] 1 All E.R (Comm) 132, Globe Traders v. TRW Lucas Varity Electric Steering [2017] 1 All E R (Comm) 601 and Al Nehayan v Kent [2018] EWHC 333 (Comm). 31 The claimants maintain that the clauses on which they rely created an express and unqualified power to terminate, not a contractual......
  • Zenith Logistics Services (UK) Ltd v Peter James Keates
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 17 June 2022
    ...It is exceptional for fiduciary duties to arise other than in those settled categories: see Leggatt LJ in Sheikh Al Nehayan v Kent [2018] EWHC 333 (Comm) at [157]. Whilst fiduciary duties may exist outside such established categories, the task of determining when they do is not straightfor......
  • Oliver Dean Morley t/a Morley Estates v The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 27 January 2020
    ...between relationships which give rise to fiduciary duties and other contractual relationships” ( Sheikh Tahnoon Al Nehayan v. Kent [2018] EWHC 333 (Comm) at 143 Mr Sims submitted that the loan agreement, as extended, had “characteristics redolent of a joint venture or long term relational ......
  • The ECU Group Plc v HSBC Bank Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 1 November 2021
    ...confidence in HBPB such that a fiduciary relationship was created. I note the following observations of Leggatt LJ in Al Nehayan v Kent [2018] 1 CLC 216 at [163]–[164]: “163. Counsel for Mr Kent placed heavy emphasis on the close personal relationship between Mr Kent and Sheikh Tahnoon and ......
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12 firm's commentaries
  • Complex Commercial Litigation Law Review – England and Wales
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • 27 January 2021
    ...EWHC 1789, the ‘law has not yet reached a state of settled clarity’.63 Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Saeed Bin Shakhboot Al Neyahan v. Kent [2018] EWHC 333 (Comm). See also Bates v. Post Office Ltd (No 3) [2019] EWHC 606 (QB), Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd v. Lufthansa [2020] EWHC 1789 and Essex County C......
  • Complex Commercial Litigation Law Review - Fifth Edition - England & Wales
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • 19 December 2022
    ...EWHC 1789, the ‘law has not yet reached a state of settled clarity’.67 Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Saeed Bin Shakhboot Al Neyahan v. Kent [2018] EWHC 333 (Comm). See also Bates v. Post Oce Ltd (No. 3) [2019] EWHC 606 (QB), Cathay Pacic Airways Ltd v. Lufthansa [2020] EWHC 1789 and Essex County Cou......
  • Good Faith in English Contract Law
    • United States
    • JD Supra United States
    • 1 March 2022
    ...Civ 39610. [2019] EWHC 606 (QB)11. [2019] EWHC 2322 (Ch)12. Teesside Gas Transportation v CATS North Sea [2019] EWHC 1220 (Comm)13. [2018] EWHC 333 (Comm) KeyContactsAlistair CalvertPartnerLondonJameela BondSenior AssociateLondonbracewell.com3. On the other hand, in UK Acorn Finance Ltd v M......
  • Complex Commercial Litigation Law Review – England & Wales
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • 10 January 2019
    ...Shipping Company SA v. Cottonex Anstalt [2016] EWCA Civ 789. 42 Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Saeed Bin Shakhboot Al Neyahan v. Kent [2018] EWHC 333 (Comm). 43 Robinson v. Harman (1848) 1 Ex © 2019 Law Business Research Ltd England & Wales 69 The burden of proof lies on the claimant to prove factual c......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Abuse of Rights in English Contract Law: Hidden in Plain Sight?
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 84-5, September 2021
    • 1 September 2021
    ...S eng i bid at [137]-[152]; for a more recent decision of Leggatt LJ (sitting in the High Court)on good faith,see Al Nehayan vKent [2018] EWHC 333 (Comm) at [167]-[176]; see also LeggattJ, n 40 above at [30].There has been controversy over the meaning of good faith, in particularwhether it ......
  • UNCERTAINTY IN PRIVATE LAW: RHETORICAL DEVICE OR SUBSTANTIVE LEGAL ARGUMENT?
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 45 No. 1, August 2021
    • 1 August 2021
    ...unfair dealing by the party making the threat, or (c) what is threatened is otherwise a use of power for illegitimate ends. (112) [2018] EWHC 333 (Comm), (113) Ibid. (114) Davies and Day, '"Lawful Act" Duress (Again)' (n 26) 9. (115) Ibid 10. (116) Indeed, many cases of actual undue influen......

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