Solle v Butcher

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal
Date1949
Year1949

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186 cases
  • Great Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd (Cape Providence)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 October 2002
    ...5 th ed. at pp.288–9 and Meagher at pp.375–6. Cooper v Phibbs was however the decision primarily relied upon by Denning LJ in Solle Butcher– he described it as 'the great case', and it is necessary to consider it with care. In this task we have been assisted by the analysis in 'A Note on Co......
  • Chwee Kin Keong and Others v Digilandmall.com Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 13 January 2005
    ...Paul [1975] Ch 133 (folld) Shogun Finance Ltd v Hudson [2004] 1 AC 919 (refd) Smith v Hughes (1871) LR 6 QB 597 (folld) Solle v Butcher [1950] 1 KB 671 (not folld) Taylor v Johnson (1983) 151 CLR 422 (distd) Tutt v Doyle (1997) 42 NSWLR 10 (folld) Vallance v The Queen (1961) 108 CLR 56 (fol......
  • Lee Sock Goh v Straits Cabaret (1953) Ltd
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1965
  • O'Neill v Ryan (No. 3)
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 January 1992
    ...relative and respective rights which relief might further be refused if the party seeking it was himself at fault. Solle v. ButcherELR [1950] 1 K.B. 671 followed. 5. That the equitable relief of rectification of the written terms falsely recording true agreement by the parties did not arise......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Litigation & Dispute Resolution Update
    • United States
    • Mondaq United States
    • 14 November 2002
    ...be a seal of the company on which its name is not engraved as required by subsection (1), he is liable to a fine." 17 [1932] AC 161 18 [1950] 1 KB 671 19 Paragraph 6 of the Client Care Code (Updating costs information) states that "The solicitor should keep the client properly informed abou......
17 books & journal articles
  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2002, December 2002
    • 1 December 2002
    ...Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd[2003] QB 679, the court held that its previous decision in Solle v Butcher[1950] 1 KB 671 was inconsistent with the House of Lords decision in Bell v Lever Brothers, Ltd[1932] AC 161, and ought therefore not to be followed. There is......
  • CONTRACT LAW IN COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES: UNIFORMITY OR DIVERGENCE?
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December - January 2019
    • 1 December 2019
    ...(1983) 151 CLR 422, as well as John W Carter, Contract Law in Australia (LexisNexis Butterworths, 6th Ed, 2013) at pp 440–456. 83 [1950] 1 KB 671. Cf John Cartwright, “Solle v Butcher and the Doctrine of Mistake in Contract” (1987) 103 LQR 594 and Paul Matthews, “A Note on Cooper v Phibbs” ......
  • VITIATING FACTORS IN CONTRACT LAW — THE INTERACTION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1998, December 1998
    • 1 December 1998
    ...under s 2(2) of the UK Misrepresentation Act 1967: see infra, Pt IV. 21 Sec supra, note 15. 22 See Phang, supra, note 12 esp at 301. 23 [1950] 1 KB 671. 24 Ibid at 692—693 (emphasis added). 25 See generally Phang, supra, note 12 at 293—297. 26 See generally, ibid at 297—301. 27 See generall......
  • Mistake
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Vitiating Factors
    • 4 August 2020
    ...CLR 422 (Aust HC). 23 See Sections B(5) & (6), and C(3), below in this chapter. 24 Above note 22 at 429, quoting from Solle v Butcher , [1950] 1 KB 671 at 691 (CA), Denning LJ, for discussion of which, see Section C(3), below in this chapter. 25 See Sections B(5) & (6) and C(3) & (4), below......
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