Wilfried Guemiand Bony (Claimant and Respondent) v Gilbert Francis Kacou and Others (Appellants and Defendants)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
JudgeHH Judge Pelling
Judgment Date04 September 2017
Neutral Citation[2017] EWHC 2146 (Ch)
Docket NumberCase No: C31MA092
Date04 September 2017

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5 cases
  • Mercato Sports (UK) Ltd v The Everton Football Club Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 12 July 2018
    ...directly with each other (“a horizontal contract” to adopt the language used by HH Judge Pelling QC in Bony v Kacou & others [2017] EWHC 2146 (Ch)) can arise where each of those persons has a separate contract (“a vertical contract”) with the same third party committing them to abide by......
  • Saif Alrubie v (1) Chelsea Football Club Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 14 March 2025
    ...cases specifically considering the horizontal effect of Rule K: Davies v Nottingham Forest FC Ltd [2017] EWHC 2095 (Ch); Bony v Kacou [2017] EWHC 2146 (Ch); and Mercato Sports (UK) Ltd v The Everton FC Co Ltd [2018] EWHC 1567 29 Davies concerned an employment dispute between a football club......
  • Jefferies International Ltd v Cantor Fitzgerald & Company
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 2 June 2020
    ...directly with each other (“a horizontal contract” to adopt the language used by HH Judge Pelling QC in Bony v Kacou & others [2017] EWHC 2146 (Ch)) can arise where each of those persons has a separate contract (“a vertical contract”) with the same third party committing them to abide b......
  • Saif Alrubie v Chelsea Football Club Limited & Anor
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 14 March 2025
    ...cases specifically considering the horizontal effect of Rule K: Davies v Nottingham Forest FC Ltd [2017] EWHC 2095 (Ch); Bony v Kacou [2017] EWHC 2146 (Ch); and Mercato Sports (UK) Ltd v The Everton FC Co Ltd [2018] EWHC 1567 29. Davies concerned an employment dispute between a football clu......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Implied Horizontal Contract Prompts Stay Of Proceedings S9 AA 1996
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 30 August 2018
    ...Aeroflot Russian Airlines v Berezovsky & others [2013 ] EWCA Civ 784, [2013] 2 Lloyd's Rep 242 4 Bony v Kacou & others [2017] EWHC 2146 (Ch) 5 Clarke v Earl of Dunraven [1897] AC 59 (The The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specia......
5 books & journal articles
  • Chapter 1: The Foundations of Incorporation and Arbitration Clauses
    • United Kingdom
    • Taylor and Francis Arbitration Clauses and Third Parties Part 1: Muddying the Water
    • Invalid date
    ...with regard to incorporation of arbitration clauses by reference when a non-written agreement is involved in Bony v Kacou and Others [2017] EWHC 2146 (Ch) para [34]: ‘A non-written agreement that incorporates by reference written terms that consist of or include an arbitration clause consti......
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Invalid date
    ...181 Con LR 119�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������3.58 Bony v Kacou [2017] EWHC 2146 (Ch)������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 1.47, 3.86, 7.45 Borag, The [1981] 1 All ER 856...
  • Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Invalid date
    ...Davids Ltd [1999] BLR 194 29 Blackpool and Fylde Aero Club v Blackpool Borough Council [1990] EWCA Civ 13 8 Bony v Kacou and Others [2017] EWHC 2146 (Ch) 22, 24, Brandt v Liverpool, Brazil and River Plate Steam Navigation Co Ltd [1924] 1 KB 575 (CA) 271, 272 Bremer Vulkan Schiffbau und Masc......
  • Intent to Create Legal Relations
    • United Kingdom
    • Oxford University Press Books and Journals Contract Law in Practice Part II. Formation
    • Invalid date
    ...(eds), Changing Concepts of Contract (Palgrave Publishing 2013) ch 8. 54 ibid, at [65] and [68]; see, notably, [69] and [76]. 55 [2017] EWHC 2146 (Ch) at [49]; citing Baird Textile Holdings Ltd v Marks and Spencer plc [2001] EWCA Civ 274, [2002] 1 All ER (Comm) 737 at [18] (Sir Andrew Morri......
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