St. John Shipping Corporation v Joseph Rank Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1956
Date1956
Year1956
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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  • REFORMING ILLEGALITY IN PRIVATE LAW
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2009, December 2009
    • 1 December 2009
    ...overruled by the House of Lords in [1955] AC 778 on a finding of fact, the legal principles laid down were not challenged). 9 [1957] 1 QB 267. 10 [1957] 1 QB 267 at 287—288. 11 G H Treitel, “Contract and Crime” in Crime, Proof and Punishment: Essays in Memory of Sir Rupert Cross (London: Bu......
  • Illegality
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Vitiating Factors
    • 4 August 2020
    ...Doering, McNab & Co , [1892] 2 QB 724 (CA). 20 Alexander v Rayson , above note 14 at 182; St John Shipping Corp v Joseph Rank Ltd , [1957] 1 QB 267 at 283 [ St John Shipping ]. 21 [2013] 1 QB 840, [2013] 2 WLR 939 (CA) [ ParkingEye ]. THE LAW OF CONTR ACTS 504 misconduct is so minor or peri......
  • 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 Reform Committee New Zealand on Illegal Contracts (1969) at 6—7; as well as s 3 of the New Zealand Illegal Contracts Act 1970. 368 [1957] 1 QB 267. 369 Ibid at 284 (emphasis added). See also B and B Viennese Fashions v Losane[1952] 1 All ER 909 at 913, per Jenkins LJ as well as the rece......
  • VITIATING FACTORS IN CONTRACT LAW — SOME KEY CONCEPTS AND DEVELOPMENTS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2005, December 2005
    • 1 December 2005
    ...and, by the same writer, supra n 1, at 65—66. See also the leading English decision of St John Shipping Corporation v Joseph Rank Ltd[1957] 1 QB 267, especially at 284, per Devlin J (as he then was). 278 See Phang, supra n 1, at 66 (emphasis in the original text; and also referring to Devli......
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