South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council v Svenska International Plc

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1995
Date1995
CourtQueen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
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24 cases
  • Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore v Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (No 2)
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 30 May 2002
    ...not the case here. This general principle is well set out in South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council v Svenska International plc [1995] 1 All ER 545. Notwithstanding the criticisms of Goff & Jones (at 823), I see no need at this juncture to not to follow the general Attempt to introduce......
  • Friends' Provident Life Office (A Firm) v Hillier Parker May & Rowden; Estates & General Plc and Others, third parties
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 3 April 1995
    ...for unjust enrichment; Westdeutsche Landesbank v. Islington LBC [1993] 2 Banking LR 159, per Hobhouse J. at 183; and South Tyneside MBC v. Svenska International plc [1995] 1 All E.R. 545, per Clarke J. at 557B-558C —no defence to a claim of unjust enrichment that the payee has made a loss o......
  • School Facility Management Ltd v Governing Body of Christ the King College
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 7 May 2020
    ...interest e.g. by claiming an expectation measure of damages?) In South Tyneside Metropolitan Council v Svenska International plc [1995] 1 All ER 545, 565, Clarke J had to consider a claim in unjust enrichment to recover sums paid under an interest rate swap which was ultra vires the claima......
  • Eastbourne Borough Council v Foster
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 July 2001
    ...the parties. Mr Stilitz relied on the dictum of Clarke J in South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council v. Svenska International plc [1995] 1 All ER 545 at 565 that where a transaction is ultra vires and void "it follows that any promise, representation or assumption to the contrary is also......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Restitution
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2002, December 2002
    • 1 December 2002
    ...the defence would have failed on the facts. Lai J relied on South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council v Svenska International plc[1995] 1 All ER 545 for this principle. It is curious that, on this issue, his attention was not brought to Dextra Bank & Trust Co Ltd v Bank of Jamaica (supra)......
  • Tracing into an Overdrawn Bank Account — When does Money Cease to Exist?
    • United Kingdom
    • Emerald Journal of Financial Crime No. 3-2, March 1995
    • 1 March 1995
    ...Ltd v South Tyneside Metropoli-tan BC [1994] 4 All ER 972; South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council v Svenska International plc [1995] 1 All ER 545. (8) Millett 'Tracing the Proceeds of Fraud', 107 LQR l\;Agip (Africa) Ltd v Jackson [1990] Ch 265. (9) Taylor v Plumer (1815) 3 M&S 562. (1......
  • Banking Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...(citing Goff & Jones [supra 112] at p 856 para 40-009 and South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council v Svenska International plc[1995] 1 All ER 545), which was not the case here. Letters of credit 4.13 If fraudulent or forged documents are tendered by a beneficiary to an issuing or confirm......

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