Suisse Atlantique Société d'Armement Maritime S.A. v N.v Rotterdamsche Kolen Centrale (Silvretta.)
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | Viscount Dilhorne,Lord Reid,Lord Hodson,Lord Upjohn,Lord Wilberforce |
| Judgment Date | 31 March 1966 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1966] UKHL J0331-4 |
| Date | 31 March 1966 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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298 cases
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Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd
...not". 31 THE MEANING OF THE WAYS 32 Both ways are to be found in the speeches in Suisse Atlantique Societe v. N.V. Rottersamsche (1967) 1 Appeal Cases 361; and sometimes in the same speech. In actual practice, it makes little difference: because, whichever way is taken, the courts reach the......
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Levison v Patent Steam Carpet Cleaning Company Ltd
...It certainly applies in standard form contracts where there is inequality of bargaining power. Even in the Suisse Atlantique Case (1967) 1 Appeal Cases 361 such contracts were treated as exceptional. Lord Reid said (at page 406): "Exemption clauses differ greatlyin many respects. Probably t......
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Parker Distributors (Singapore) Pte Ltd v A/S D/S Svenborg and Another
...marine deviation cases which Lord Wilberforce summarized in Suisse Atlantique Société d`Armement Maritime SA v NV Rotterdamsche [1967] 1 AC 361 at p 433 in the following terms: There is a long line of authority the commencement of which is usually taken from the judgment of Tindal CJ in D......
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Internet Broadcasting Corporation Ltd (t/a NETTV) v MAR LLC (t/a MARHedge)
...breach. 15 However, the current position is that I am bound by the decisions of the House of Lords in the Suisse Atlantique case [1967] 1 AC 361 and Photo Production Limited v Securicor Transport Limited [1980] 1 AC 827 to reject the notion that there is any such rule of law and treat the ......
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7 firm's commentaries
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Can An Exclusion Clause Or Liability Cap Apply To A Deliberate Or Fundamental Breach? (Mott MacDonald V Trant Engineering)
...clauses, in particular the leading cases of Suisse Atlantique Société d'Armement Maritime SA v Rotterdamsche Kolen Centrale NV [1967] 1 AC 361 and Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [1980] AC 827. In those cases, the House of Lords rejected the doctrine of fundamental breach, ho......
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The Availability Of Damages In Addition To Demurrage
...K.B. 352, , in particular after what was said about them in Suisse Atlantique v d'Armement Maritime v N.V. Rotterdamsche Kolen Centrale [1967] 1 AC 361. In Reidar v Arcos the chartered vessel was to load a cargo of timber for carriage to Manchester. The charterers exceeded the laytime and d......
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Excluding Consequential Loss - Does It Matter If You've Been Naughty Or Nice?
...a commercial contract. As the House of Lords noted in Suisse Atlantique Societe d'Armement Maritime SA v NV Rotterdamsche Kolen Centrale [1967] 1 AC 361 "... the parties cannot, in a contract, have contemplated that the clause should have so wide an ambit as in effect to deprive one party's......
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Excluding Consequential Loss - Does it Matter If You've Been Naughty Or Nice?
...a commercial contract. As the House of Lords noted in Suisse Atlantique Societe d'Armement Maritime SA v NV Rotterdamsche Kolen Centrale [1967] 1 AC 361 the parties cannot, in a contract, have contemplated that the clause should have so wide an ambit as in effect to deprive one party's s......
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26 books & journal articles
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RE-EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUTUAL PROMISES IN CONTRACT LAW.
...as not applying to fundamental breach of contract: Suisse Atlantique Societe d'Armement Maritime SA v NV Rotterdamsche Kolen Centrale [1967] 1 AC 361, 392-3 (Viscount Dilhorne), 410 (Lord Hodson); Kamil Export (Aust) Pty Ltd v NPL (Australia) Pty Ltd [1996] 1 VR 538, 546-53, where Marks J s......
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SELF-DEALING AND NO-PROFIT RULES: COMPANIES ACT 2016
...[1968] 1 QB 549 at 594E–594G, per Lord Pearson, and Suisse Atlantique Societe d'Armement Maritime SA v NV Rotterdamsche Kolen Centrale [1967] 1 AC 361. 106 De Bussche v Alt (1878) 8 Ch D 286 at 313, per James, Baggallay and Thesiger LJJ. 107 Verschures Creameries Ltd v Hull and Netherlands ......
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Preliminary Sections
...Engineering Co. Ltd. v. Partchett (1955) AC 534 at 547. 391 Suisse Atlantique D'Armement Maritime S.A. v. Rotterdamsche Kolen Generale (1967) 1 AC 361. 392 Swiss-Nigeria Wooden Industries Ltd. v. Boyo 1970 1 ALR Comm 423. 392 Taiwo & Ors v. Akinwunmi & Ors (1975) 4 S.C. 143. 341 Tallack v. ......
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Table of Cases
...1406, [1988] 3 All ER 394, (1988) 132 SJ 1458, CA 50 Suisse Atlantique Société d’Armement Maritime SA v NV Rotterdamsche Kolen Centrale [1967] 1 AC 361, [1966] 2 WLR 944, [1966] 2 All ER 61, HL 60 Sutradhar v National Environmental Research Council [2004] EWCA Civ 175, [2004] PNLR 30, [2004......
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