Universal Thermosensors Ltd v Hibben

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date05 February 1992
Date05 February 1992
CourtChancery Division
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    ...have been directed to the terms of the actual order made which seem to have followed what is said in that paragraph. 23 Universal Thermosensors Limited v Hibben [1992] 1 WLR 840 is of very limited assistance to me in this case. By the time of trial before the then Vice-Chancellor Sir Don......
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    ...Walker (unreported). Eastwood, ReELR [1975] 1 Ch 112. Gundry v SainsburyELR [1910] 1 KB 645. Universal Thermosensors Ltd v HibbenWLR [1992] 1 WLR 840. Taxation of costs — Contentious business agreement — Whether receiving party could claim on taxation hourly expense rates greater than those......
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    • Chancery Division
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    ...then, used in the better considered cases, became virtually universal following the observations of Sir Donald Nicholls V-C in Universal Thermosensors Ltd v Hibben [1992]1 WLR 840 at 861. Perhaps because of the added protection that the presence of a Supervising Solicitor conferred, the ea......
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  • Employee Competition: Recent Cases
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    • Mondaq United Kingdom
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    ...are to be found in British Midland Tool Ltd v Midland International Tool Ltd [2003] 2 BCLC 523 and Universal Thermosensors Ltd v Hibben [1992] 1 WLR 840. The need to take pragmatic steps to protect the business from future and further loss. There were steps that the claimant could already t......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Equitable Remedies. Second Edition
    • 18 June 2013
    ...United States of America v. Yemec, 2010 ONCA 414 ............................... 48, 53, 54 Universal Thermosensors Ltd. v. Hibben, [1992] 1 W.L.R. 840 (Ch. D.) ................................................................141, 151 Upjohn Co. v. Apotex Inc. (1993), 68 F.T.R. 262, 51 C.P.R......
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    • Irwin Books The Law of Equitable Remedies. Second Edition
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    ...in Lock International Plc. v. Beswick , [1989] 1 W.L.R. 1268; and Sir Donald Nicholls V.C. in Universal Thermosensors Ltd. v. Hibben , [1992] 1 W.L.R. 840. 11 Civil Procedure Act 1997 (U.K.), 1997, c. 12, s. 7. 12 Celanese , above note 2; and British Columbia (Attorney General) v. Malik , 2......
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    ...Resources Partners, 2012 ONSC 6034 Universal City Studios v Mukhtar & Sons, [1976] 2 All ER330 (Ch) Universal Thermosensors v Hibben, [1992] 1 WLR 840 (Ch) Upper Canada College v Toronto (City of) (1917), 4° OLR 483 (HC) 98 127 238 244,309 136,198 Vaccaro v Twin Cities Power-Canada, ULC, 20......
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    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...36 See paras 17–51 below. 37[2014] EWHC 3159 (Ch) at [176]. 38[1988] 1 WLR 1406 at 1416. 39 In Universal Thermosensors Ltd v Hibben[1992] 1 WLR 840 at 846, Sir Donald Nicholls V-C (as he then was) suggested in an obiter dictum that damages for breach of confidence could be awarded on the ba......
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