Steadman v Steadman
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Judge | Lord Reid,Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest,Viscount Dilhorne,Lord Simon of Glaisdale,Lord Salmon |
Judgment Date | 19 June 1974 |
Judgment citation (vLex) | [1974] UKHL J0619-2 |
Date | 19 June 1974 |
Court | House of Lords |
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215 cases
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Eugenie Chin Lyn and Others v Ludlow Reynolds
...that there can still be an action for specific performance where there is a sufficient act of part performance. Counsel cited Steadman v Steadman [1976] AC 536 at 539 where Lord Reid stated that: [I]f one party to an agreement stands by and lets the other party incur expense or prejudice hi......
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Daulia Ltd v Four Millbank Nominees Ltd
...the acts can begin to be regarded as part performance, but that is an inquiry which one is not permitted to make: see per Lord Reid in Steadman v. Steadman (1976) Appeal Cases at page 541, just above E, where he said: "I think that there has been some confusion between this supposed rule an......
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Harley Corporation Guarantee Investment Company Ltd v Estate Rudolph Daley, Etal Walters and RBTT Bank Jamaica Ltd
...into an enforceable agreement with Walters, he argued. He further argued that the learned trial judge, rejected Steadman v Steadman [1976] AC 536, and wrongly held that there was no enforceable agreement for sale between the bank and Harley Corporation. The learned trial judge, he argued, e......
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Daley (Rudolph) v RBTT Bank Jamaica Ltd Etal Walters v Rudolph Daley, RBYY Bank Jamaica Ltd, Harley Corporation Guarantee Trust Company Ltd Harley Corporation Guarantee Trust Company Ltd v Etal Walters; Etal Walters v Rudolph Walters and RBYY Bank Jamaica Ltd [Consolidated Suits]
...meeting the demands of Maddison v Alderson 8 App. Cas. 467. This is so despite the efforts of the House of Lords in Steadman v Steadman [1976] A.C. 536 to suggest that the doctrine is not as stringent as Maddison states. Steadman v Steadman is at odds with the defining case of Maddison v Al......
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11 books & journal articles
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Specific Performance: Discretionary Defences and Considerations that Affect Discretion
...particular issue. 65 60 See the discussion on this issue in Alvi v Lal (1990), 13 RPR (2d) 302 (Ont HCJ). 61 Steadman v Steadman (1974), [1976] AC 536 (HL). 62 See, in British Columbia, Currie v Thomas (1985), 19 DLR (4th) 594 (BCCA); in Newfoundland and Labrador, see Hollett v Hollett (199......
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Table of cases
...182 State Industries Ltd v Summers Equipment Inc, 2020 MBQB 77 ........73, 223, 228 Steadman v Steadman (1974), [1976] AC 536, [1974] 3 WLR 56, [1974] 2 All ER 977 (HL) ............................................................................. 454 Stefanovska v Kok (1990), 73 OR (2d) 368......
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Table of Cases
...R. 6, 25 C.P.C. (4th) 387, [1998] S.J. No. 750 (Q.B.) ............................................ 119 Steadman v. Steadman (1974), [1976] A.C. 536, [1974] 3 W.L.R. 56, [1974] 2 All E.R. 977 (H.L.) ......................................................................... 324 Stefanovska v. ......
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Agreements in Writing
...ER 593 (CA) [ Kingswood Estate ]. See also Wakeham v MacKenzie , [1968] 2 All ER 783. 91 Kingswood Estate , above note 90 at 189 (QB). 92 [1976] AC 536 [ Steadman ]. 93 Ibid at 541–42. THE LAW OF CONTR ACTS 194 doctrine was essentially a rule of evidence rather than the application of an eq......
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