Wong (Edward) Finance Company Ltd v Johnson Stokes & Master

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1984
Date1984
Year1984
CourtPrivy Council
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108 cases
  • United Overseas Finance Ltd v Victor Sakayamary and Others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 7 May 1996
    ...the solicitor who ran a one man practice. The risk ran was a foreseeable one. See Edward Wong Finance Co Ltd v Johnson Stokes and Master [1984] AC 296 . Mortgagees appointing solicitors because they or their clerks bring business to them is an unhealthy practice and it is not in the interes......
  • Yeo Yoke Mui v Ng Liang Poh
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 29 June 1999
    ...preclude a finding that he had not done enough to advise her on the road reserves: Edward Wong Finance Co Ltd v Johnson, Stokes & Master [1984] AC 296, applied in Chong Yeo & Partners v Guan Ming Hardware & Engineering Pte Ltd [1997] 2 SLR 729 . In any event, the evidence of Mr Lim Sin was ......
  • Attorney-General v Strathboss Kiwifruit Ltd
    • New Zealand
    • Court of Appeal
    • 9 April 2020
    ...at [7.4.02]. 339 See, for example, Lloyds Bank Ltd v Savory & Co [1933] AC 201 (HL); Edward Wong Finance Co Ltd v Johnson Stokes & Master [1984] AC 296 (PC); and Todd, above n 98, at 340 High Court judgment, above n 2, at [950]. 341 At [950(a)–(b)] and [963]. 342 See above at [37]. 343 Auck......
  • Zulhasnimar bt Hassan Basri v Dr Kuppu Velumani P
    • Malaysia
    • Federal Court (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Bankruptcy In Conveyancing
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 29 September 2016
    ...adopt a different technique." However, one then has to consider the position under Edward Wong Finance Co Ltd v Johnson Stokes and Master [1984] 2 WLR 1 - a case with which many will be equally familiar. There the solicitor adopted the 'Hong Kong completion method'. By that method the purch......
9 books & journal articles
  • MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE AND PATIENT AUTONOMY
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...1024 at [65]. 85Dr Khoo James v Gunapathy d/o Muniandy[2002] 1 SLR(R) 1024 at [3]. 86Edward Wong Finance Co Ltd v Johnson Stokes & Master[1984] AC 296; Yeo Yoke Mui v Ng Liang Poh[1999] 2 SLR(R) 701. 87Dr Khoo James v Gunapathy d/o Muniandy[2002] 1 SLR(R) 1024 at [69]. 88Dr Khoo James v Gun......
  • JUDGING BETWEEN CONFLICTING EXPERT EVIDENCE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2014, December 2014
    • 1 December 2014
    ...of learning. 62 One instance of such a phenomenon would be in the negligence case of Edward Wong Finance Co Ltd v Johnson Stokes & Master[1984] 1 AC 296, where the defendant was held liable despite the fact that he had acted in accordance with the industry practice, because the entire indus......
  • Professional standards in conveyancing searches
    • Caribbean Community
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 16-1, June 2006
    • 1 June 2006
    ...130 and Mortgage Express Ltd v Bowerman & Partners [1996] 2 All ER 836, 842. 55 Edward Wong Finance Co Ltd v Johnson Stokes & Master [1984] 1 AC 296. 56 Edward Wong Finance Co Ltd v Johnson Stokes & Master [1984] 1 AC 296, Johnson v Bingley Dyson &Furey [1997] PNLR 392. Distinguish the "Bol......
  • A Betrayal of Trust? Back to the Drawing Board for Medical Manslaughter
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 85-5, October 2021
    • 1 October 2021
    ...63 Scott Med J 35, 36.62. Quick (n 42) 516.63. Bolam (n 40).64. Adomako (n 10).65. Edward Wong Finance Co Ltd v Johnson Stokes & Master [1984] AC 296.66. H Teff, ‘The Standard of Care in Medical Negligence-Moving on from Bolam?’ (1998) 18 OJLS 473, 476.67. E Jackson, Medical Law: Text, Case......
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