Singh v Ali

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1960
Date1960
CourtPrivy Council
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89 cases
  • Tribe v Tribe
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 July 1995
    ...(HL). Platamone v Staple (1815) Coop 250; 35 English Reports 548. Rowan v Dunn (unreported) 4 December 1991. Sajan Singh v Sardara Ali [1960] AC 167. Standing v Bowring (1886) 31 Ch D Symes v Hughes (1870) LR 9 Eq 475. Taylor v Bowers (1876) 1 QBD 291. Tinker v Tinker [1970] P 136; [1970] 2......
  • Belvoir Finance Company Ltd v Stapleton
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 July 1970
    ...cannot recover in this action. 7 I had occasion to look into all the cases on this subject when I gave the opinion of the Privy Council in Singh v. Ali (1960 A.C. 167), and I see no reason to alter one word of it. I then said that "when two persons agree together in a conspiracy to effect a......
  • Valgardson v Chestnut
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 17 October 2007
    ...distinguished. (6) Lim Chin Aik v. R., [1963] A.C. 160; [1963] 1 All E.R. 223; (1962), 106 Sol. Jo. 1028, referred to. (7) Singh v. Ali, [1960] A.C. 167; [1960] 1 All E.R. 269, applied. (8) Sweet v. Parsley, [1970] A.C. 132; [1969] 1 All E.R. 347; (1969), 53 Cr. App. R. 221, referred to. (9......
  • Re Euro Bank Corporation
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 30 November 2001
    ...[1997] 3 All E.R. 992; sub nom. Bristol & West Bldg. Socy. v. Saunders, [1997] BCC 83, dicta of Lindsay J. applied. (23) Singh v. Ali, [1960] A.C. 167; [1960] 1 All E.R. 269, followed. (24) Smith, Knight & Co., In re, Weston”s CaseELR(1868), L.R. 4 Ch. App. 20; 38 L.J. Ch. 49, applied. (25)......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Illegality
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Vitiating Factors
    • 4 August 2020
    ...for example, Pimvicska v Pimvicska (1974), 50 DLR (3d) 569 (Alta SC). 304 Belvoir Finance Co Ltd v Stapleton , [1971] 1 QB 210 (CA). 305 [1960] AC 167 (PC). 306 [1964] AC 142 (PC). 307 Shopsky and Shopsky v Danyliuk (1959), 23 DLR (2d) 501 (Alta SC). THE L AW OF CONTR ACTS 562 E. SEVER ANCE......
  • VITIATING FACTORS IN CONTRACT LAW — THE INTERACTION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1998, December 1998
    • 1 December 1998
    ...Law of Contract (13th edn, 1996) at 398. 422 See eg, Bowmakers Ltd v Barnet Instruments Ltd[1945] KB 65 and Sajan Singh v Sardara Ali[1960] AC 167, [1960] MLJ 52. 423 And will be based, in large part, on the analysis in my article, supra, note 364. 424 [1945] KB 65. 425 Ibid at 71 (emphasis......
  • Illegal contracts and the restitution of transferred property: a comment on Husbands v Caesar
    • Caribbean Community
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 12-2, December 2002
    • 1 December 2002
    ...the judge dismissed the appellants’ claim on the ground that the contract was in fact illegal. The present appeal ensued. 9. Singh v Ah' [1960] AC 167; Belvoir Finance Ltd v Stapleton [1971] 1 QB 240; Tinsley v Milligan [1994] 1 AC 340; [1993] 3 All ER 65. 10. Strongman (1948) Ltd. v Sincoc......
  • The Transfer of Moveables in Scotland and England
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh Law Review No. , May 2008
    • 1 May 2008
    ...that property passes under an illegal contract. That was settled by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Singh v Ali.4545[1960] AC 167. See also Belvoir Finance Co Ltd v Stapleton [1971] 1 QB 210; Glastnos Shipping Ltd and Continental Chartering & Brokerage Ltd Hong Kong Branch v ......

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