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Les Laboratoires Servier & Anor v Apotex Inc & Ors (Rev 1)

Les Laboratoires Servier & Anor v Apotex Inc & Ors (Rev 1)

Case [2014] UKSC 55

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Wu v Liu [2025] NZCA 560
Citation 1 (Para 1)

…estion of illegality of its own motion.[13] [13]Citing Duncan v McDonald [1997] 3 NZLR 669 (CA) at 677; and Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55, [2015] AC 430 at [23] per Lord Sumption, Lord Neuberger and Lord Clarke.…
Woodgate Limited v Palmerston North City Council [2024] NZHC 2423
Citation 2

…[2014] UKSC 55, [2015] 1 AC 430; Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42, [2017] AC 467.…
Orion Marine Limited v Sealegs International Limited [2023] NZHC 214
Citation 3 (Para 49)

…6 Johnson v Gore Wood & Co , above n 5, at 31. 7 Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55 at [49], [52] and [53].…
Orion Marine Limited v Leybourne [2021] NZHC 3207
Citation 4

…59 High Court Rules, r 15.1. 60 Les Laboratories Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55.…
Sigma Pharmaceuticals (Australia) Pty Ltd v Wyeth [2018] FCA 1556
Citation 5

…ratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2008] EWHC 2347 (Ch); [2009] FSR 220 Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55; [2015] 1 AC 430 Lewis (as liquidator of Doran Constructions Pty Ltd) v Doran [2005] NSWCA 243; (2005) 219 ALR 555 Love v Thwaites (No 4) [2012] VSC 521 Love v Thwaites [2014] VSCA 56 Mal Owen…
H v S [2015] NZHC 310
Citation 6

…26 Les Laboratoires Servier and Another v Apotex Inc and Others [2014] UKSC 55; 29 October 2014. 27 At [20]. 28 Les Laboratoires Servier and Another v Apotex Inc and Others above n 26 at [25]. 29 At [25].…
Stoffel & Co (Appellant) v Grondona (Respondent) [2020] UKSC 42
Citation 7

…ubject should take ( Hounga v Allen (Anti-Slavery International intervening) [2014] UKSC 47; [2014] 1 WLR 2889; Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55; [2015] AC 430; Bilta (UK) Ltd v Nazir (No 2) [2015] UKSC 23; [2016] AC 1). In Patel v Mirza a majority of the Supreme Court rejected the reliance pr…
Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust [2020] UKSC 43
Citation 8

…, Lord Kerr and Lord Wilson, had adopted a policy-based approach, as set out in the judgment of Lord Wilson. In Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55; [2015] AC 430 the majority of the court, Lord Sumption, Lord Neuberger and Lord Clarke, had adopted the reliance-based approach, with the leading ju…
Singularis Holdings Ltd (in liquidation) v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd [2019] UKSC 50
Citation 9

…ceived conflict between the decisions of this Court in Hounga v Allen [2014] UKSC 47; [2014] 1 WLR 2889, Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55; [2015] AC 430, and Bilta (UK) Ltd v Nazir (No 2) [2015] UKSC 23; [2016] AC 1. By a majority of six to three, the Court rejected the approach of the House o…
Hungry Jack's Pty Ltd v The Trust Company (Australia) Ltd [No 3] [2021] WASC 231
Citation 10 (Para 5)

…14] ts 1467. [115] Trampoline Enterprises Pty Ltd v Fresh Retailing Pty Ltd [2019] VSCA 74 [120]. [116] Les Laboratories Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55; [2015] AC 430. [117] Apotex [25], [28].…
Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust [2020] UKSC 43
Citation 11

…, Lord Kerr and Lord Wilson, had adopted a policy-based approach, as set out in the judgment of Lord Wilson. In Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55; [2015] AC 430 the majority of the court, Lord Sumption, Lord Neuberger and Lord Clarke, had adopted the reliance-based approach, with the leading ju…
Jetivia SA & Anor v Bilta (UK) Ltd & Ors [2015] UKSC 23
Citation 12

…ped (with the agreement of three of the four other members of the court, including myself and Lord Clarke) in Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55, [2014] 3 WLR 1257. He distinguishes the judgment of Lord Wilson in Hounga v Allen [2014] UKSC 47, [2014] 1 WLR 2889 as involving no departure from Tin…
Lewis-Ranwell v G4S Health Services (UK) Ltd and others [2026] UKSC 2
Citation 13

…hs later, another five-Justice panel of the Supreme Court delivered a judgment on the defence of illegality in Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55; [2015] AC 430 (" Apotex "). This case concerned a claim by the defendants for damages under a cross-undertaking after an interim injunction was obtai…
Singularis Holdings Ltd v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd (Rev 1) [2019] UKSC 50
Citation 14

…he perceived conflict between the decisions of this Court in Hounga v Allen [2014] UKSC 47; [2014] 1 WLR 2889, Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55; [2015] AC 430, and Bilta (UK) Ltd v Nazir (No 2) [2015] UKSC 23; [2016] AC 1. By a majority of six to three, the Court rejected the approach of the H…
Stoffel & Co v Grondona [2020] UKSC 42
Citation 15

…ubject should take ( Hounga v Allen (Anti-Slavery International intervening) [2014] UKSC 47; [2014] 1 WLR 2889; Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55; [2015] AC 430; Bilta (UK) Ltd v Nazir (No 2) [2015] UKSC 23; [2016] AC 1). In Patel v Mirza a majority of the Supreme Court rejected the reliance pr…
Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago v Trinsalvage Enterprises Ltd (Trinidad & Tobago) [2023] UKPC 26
Citation 16

…boratoires Servier v Apotex Inc [2014] UKSC 55, [2015] AC 430, para 28. Illegality may render the contract void or unenforceable by one or either party. Whether it does so will normally involve an enquiry looking at both the provisions of the relevant statute (assuming the offence is created by statute) and the c…

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Roberts v Roberts [2021] SASCA 81
Citation 1

…"That principle has been applied again and again, for over 200 years. It is applicable in courts of equity as well as courts of law: see, e.g., the notes to Roberts v. Roberts (1818) Dan 143, 150-151 and Ayerst v. Jenkins (1873) L.R. 16 Eq. 275, 283, per Lord Selborne L.C. In 1869 Mellor J. said tha…
Stone & Rolls Ltd (In Liq) v Moore Stephens (a firm) [2009] UKHL 30
Citation 2

…sole controlling owner) and so be capable of binding it personally. Such issues were discussed in Stone & Rolls Ltd v Moore Stephens (a firm) [2009] UKHL 30, [2009] 1 AC 1391, but do not require revisiting here. Equally, this is not a case in which any question arises as to the correctness or otherwise of a decis…
Hounga v Allen & Anor [2014] UKSC 47
Citation 3

…e policy underlying ex turpi causa in order to decide whether the defence was bound to defeat a claim. In Hounga v Allen [2014] 1 WLR 2889, [2014] UKSC 47, Lord Wilson said in the judgment of the majority, at para 42: "The defence of illegality rests upon the foundation of public policy. 'The principle of public…

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