Vacwell Engineering Company Ltd v B.D.H. Chemicals Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1969
Year1969
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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  • Appleton Hall Ltd v T. Geddes Grant Distributors Ltd
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 29 July 2011
    ...to test, it was submitted in the appellant's written submissions that the case of Vacwell Engineering Co Ltd v BDH Chemicals Ltd [1971] 1 QB 88 demonstrates that the answer to whether the defendant had a duty to test is an affirmative one. It was further submitted that whether or not the re......
  • United Central Bakeries Limited V. Spooner Industries Limited+forbo Siegling (uk) Limited
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 5 September 2013
    ...[87] In relation to the duty to advise, Mr Clark for UCB referred me to the following cases: Vacwell Engineering Ltd v BDH Chemicals Ltd [1971] 1 QB 88, E Hobbs (Farms) Ltd v The Baxenden Chemical Co [1992] 1 Ll L Rep 54, Bow Valley Husky (Bermuda) Ltd v Saint John Shipbuilding Ltd [1997] 3......
  • ANDREW WEIR SHIPPING Ltd v WARTSILA UK Ltd and another
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 11 June 2004
    ...hazardous when combined with another item, without giving adequate instructions in relation to the danger – (see Vacwell v BDH Chemicals [1971] 1 QB 88) it was said that no authority had gone so far as to suggest that where the goods supplied were sound in themselves, the absence of instru......
  • United Central Bakeries Limited V. Spooner Industries Limited &c
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 29 June 2012
    ...to its suitability for use on the heliveyor in the naan bread production line. He referred to Vacwell Engineering Ltd v BDH Chemicals Ltd [1971] 1 QB 88 and Andrew Weir Shipping Ltd v Wartsila UK Ltd and Anr [2004] EWHC 1284 (Comm) in support of his contention that there was also a duty to ......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Agency and Liability
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Partnership and LLP Law - 2nd edition Contents
    • 29 August 2018
    ...[1934] 2 KB 394. 46 Ashdown v Samuel Williams and Sons Limited [1957] 1 QB 409. 47 Vacwell Engineering Co Ltd v BDH Chemicals Limited [1971] 1 QB 88. Contributory negligence claims Where a partnership incurs an obligation for a tort to which other parties have contributed, it may, if it alo......
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Partnership and LLP Law - 2nd edition Contents
    • 29 August 2018
    ...Ltd [2013] EWHC 348 (Ch), [2013] Ch 551, [2013] 3 WLR 164, [2013] 3 All ER 546 74 Vacwell Engineering Co Ltd v BDH Chemicals Ltd [1971] 1 QB 88, [1969] 3 WLR 927, [1969] 3 All ER 1681, QBD 96 Vodafone Cellular Ltd v Shaw (1997) 69 TC 376, [1997] STC 734, CA 198 xxiv Partnership and LLP Law ......
  • Damages
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Remedies
    • 4 August 2020
    ...rise to personal injuries. See above note 132 at 712 (All ER). 150 See, for example, Vacwell Engineering Co Ltd v BDH Chemicals Ltd , [1971] 1 QB 88 (supply of dangerous chemicals without adequate warning — minor THE LAW OF CONTR ACTS 1020 necessarily its extent. As the facts of the Victori......
  • Risk and Remoteness of Damage in Negligence
    • United Kingdom
    • The Modern Law Review No. 64-2, March 2001
    • 1 March 2001
    ...the background environment. Itis submitted that this is the true principle lying behind cases such as Vacwell Engineering vBDHChemicals [1971] 1 QB 88, in which recovery has been permitted notwithstanding that the detail andextent of the harm was unforeseeable.44 (1998) The Times, 30 April ......

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