Wong (Edward) Finance Company Ltd v Johnson Stokes & Master
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1984 |
| Date | 1984 |
| Year | 1984 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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113 cases
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United Overseas Finance Ltd v Victor Sakayamary and Others
...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......
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Yeo Yoke Mui v Ng Liang Poh
...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 ......
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ATTORNEY-GENERAL v Strathboss Kiwifruit Limited
...98, at [7.4.02]. 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 High Court judgment, above n 2, at [950]. Ms Higbee submits that since border personnel generally thought th......
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1 firm's commentaries
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Bankruptcy In Conveyancing
...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......
12 books & journal articles
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MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE AND PATIENT AUTONOMY
...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......
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JUDGING BETWEEN CONFLICTING EXPERT EVIDENCE
...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......
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Professional standards in conveyancing searches
...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......
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The Real Estate Lawyer's Duties: Defining the Duty with Reference to Elements of Proximity and Reliance
...Privy Council applied, with approval, the dissenting opinion of Li J.A., and particularly as follows: 43 Ibid, at 4. 44 Md. at 5. 45 (1984), 2 W.L.R. 1 (P.C.). It was not her skill that was put to test. It was her common sense, her prudence of any ordinary person that is put to test. The so......
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