Woodhouse & Company Ltd v Woodhouse

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1914
Date1914
CourtCourt of Appeal
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26 cases
  • CAS (Nominees) Ltd v Nottingham Forest Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 27 March 2002
    ... ... Wales; second, whether an English charge, unregistered in Scotland, granted to a US finance company by a Scottish company, now in administration of shares in its own English subsidiary is a fixed or ... ...
  • Charles Richard Alan Lennon v MS (NI) Limited, Wesley Hanson, Stanley McFarland, 3i Group PLC
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Northern Ireland)
    • 19 May 2005
    ...no longer pursued. I take the 4 fundamental principle to be that enunciated by Phillimore LJ in Woodhouse and Co. (Limited) v Woodhouse (1914) 30 TLR 559 at 560: “The principle was that if people had a common interest in property, an opinion having regard to that property, paid for out of t......
  • Mrs Ashley Judith Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing LLP
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 March 2020
    ...the directors who manage his property, when the documents are paid for out of his property”. Again, in Woodhouse & Co Ltd v Woodhouse (1914) 30 TLR 559, where a shareholder litigating against the company asked for production of opinions that the latter had obtained, Phillimore LJ said that:......
  • Mike Hilton and Others v D IV LLP and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 12 January 2015
    ...they are a shareholder, so in my judgment are members of LLPs. The general principle as it applies to shareholders was assumed in Woodhouse & Co v. Woodhouse (1914) 30 TLR 559, was stated by Simonds J (as he then was) in Dennis & Sons Limited v. West Norfolk Farmers Manure and Chemical Coop......
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3 books & journal articles
  • DISCLOSURE OF THE COMPANY'S PRIVILEGED DOCUMENTS TO SHAREHOLDERS AS AN APPLICATION OF JOINT INTEREST PRIVILEGE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December 2020
    • 1 December 2020
    ...was concerned with privilege. This case is discussed at paras 58–59 below. 16 See para 52 ff below. 17 Woodhouse & Co Ltd v Woodhouse (1914) 30 TLR 559; Winterthur Swiss Insurance Co v AG (Manchester) Ltd [2006] All ER (D) 196 at [79]; BBGP Managing General Partner Ltd v Babcock & Brown Glo......
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    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 9-4, December 2005
    • 1 December 2005
    ...v Hall (1980) 72 Cr App R 39.................................................................... 114Woodhouse v Woodhouse (1914) 30 TLR 559....................................................................1 93Yee Hem v US 179 (1925) ................................. 17TABLE OF CASES 320 T......
  • Legal Advice Privilege and the Corporate Client
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 9-3, July 2005
    • 1 July 2005
    ...50 at 173–4.52 A point recently made by C. Tapper, ‘Privilege, Policy and Principle’ (2005) 121 LQR 181 at 184.53 Woodhouse v Woodhouse (1914) 30 TLR 559. Privilege can be claimed if the litigation is hostilebut much shareholder litigation is deemed non-hostile: see Re Hydrosan Ltd [1991] B......

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