Category: estoppel

Thorner v Major and others – WLR Daily

Posted July 4th, 2008 in estoppel, law reports, wills by sally

Thorner v Major and others [2008] EWCA Civ 232; [2008] WLR (D) 222

“A dedicated help and service in reliance upon a statement did not bind his estate by conscience to create a proprietary estoppel to confer the farm to the claimant even if the deceased had given the farm to the claimant by a will which he subsequently revoked to deny an interest to a third person.”

WLR Daily, 3rd July 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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Kosmar Villa Holidays plc v Trustees of Syndicate 1243 – Times Law Reports

Posted March 11th, 2008 in accidents, estoppel, insurance, law reports by sally

Kosmar Villa Holidays plc v Trustees of Syndicate 1243

Court of Appeal

“Where insurers acknowledged a claim under a policy knowing that the insured had failed to comply with a condition precedent in the notification clause, they did not elect to waive the insured’s failure and accept liability.”

The Times, 11th March 2008

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

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