Beacon Insurance Company Ltd v Maharaj Bookstore Ltd: PC 9 Jul 2014

(Trinidad and Tobago) The Board was asked as to an insurance claim arising out of a fire and the insurance company’s rejection of that claim on the ground that part of it was fraudulent or had involved fraudulent devices. The principal issue was whether the Court of Appeal was entitled to overturn the findings of fact made by the judge at first instance.

Lord Mance, Lord Sumption, Lord Reed, Lord Toulson, Lord Hodge
[2014] UKPC 21, [2014] 4 All ER 418
Bailii
Commonwealth
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CitedCarlyle (Scotland) v Royal Bank of Scotland Plc SC 11-Mar-2015
Assessing Whether 1st Judge was Plainly Wrong
The Court was asked whether, on an objective assessment of a what a developer and the bank had said to each other, the bank intended to enter into a legally binding promise to advance sums in the future to fund not only the developers purchase of . .
CitedPaymaster (Jamaica) Ltd and Another v Grace Kennedy Remittance Services Ltd PC 11-Dec-2017
(Court of Appeal of Jamaica) The parties disputed the ownership of copyight in certain computer software, and also an allegation of the misuse of confidential information. . .

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Updated: 16 December 2021; Ref: scu.533886