Ivory (Trevor) Ltd v Anderson
| Jurisdiction | New Zealand |
| Date | 1992 |
| Year | 1992 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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117 cases
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Eagle Merchant Bank of Jamaica Ltd and Crown Eagle Life Insurance Company Ltd v Paul Chen Young. Ajax Investments Ltd and Domville Ltd (No 2)
...of the company. As is made clear by later cases which considered Tesco such as the New Zealand Court of Appeal decision in Trevor Ivory v Anderson 1992, 2 NZLR 517, that case established the legal principle that the words and actions of a director who is the controlling mind of the company ......
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Merrett v Babb
...in the context of directors of companies the general principle must not "set at naught" the protection of limited liability. In Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517, 524, Cooke P. expressed a very similar view. It is clear what they meant. What matters is not that the liability of ......
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Phelps v London Borough of Hillingdon
...for finding an assumption of risk would have been absent. A case on the other side of the line is Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517. This case concerned negligent advice given by a one-man company to a commercial fruit grower. Despite proper application of the spray it killed th......
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BP Plc v AON Ltd and Aon Risk Services of Texas Inc.
...necessary factual foundation for finding an assumption of risk would have been absent. A case on the other side of the line is Trevor Ivory Ltd. v. Anderson [1992] 2 N.Z.L.R. 517. This case concerned negligent advice given by a one-man company to a commercial fruit grower. Despite proper ap......
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2 firm's commentaries
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Director´s Liability, Leaky Homes And The Tortious Duty Of Councils
...policy considerations. At to the third, His Honour reviewed several of the negligent advice cases including Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517 (CA) and Hedley Byrne & Co ltd v Heller & Partners [1964] AC He conceded that in New Zealand, at least, the concept of "assumptio......
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Personal liability of building inspectors
...to 'pierce the corporate veil' when a director has personal responsibility for the company's actions (Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517). The general test for piercing the corporate veil is whether the company is an 'alter ego' of the individual (Gloken Holdings Limited v The CD......
9 books & journal articles
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James Hardie and the Development of Parent Company Liability: New Zealand as a Forum for Transnational Human Rights Litigation?
...Rights and the Problem of Corporate Irresponsibility” (2010) 34 Camb J Econ 837. 15 For example, see: Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517; Body Corporate 202254 v Taylor [2008] NZCA 317; and Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd [1998] 1 WLR 830. In New Zealand, company directo......
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Liability of financial advisers for pensions mis‐selling
...1150. (3) [1998] 1 WLR 830. (4) London Drugs Ltd v Kuehne & Nagel Inter-national Ltd. 97 D.L.R (4th) 261; Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson[1992] 2 NZLR 517. (5) Professional Negligence Law Reports (1999) 44. (6) Montgomery v United Kingdom Mutual Steamship Association[1891] 1 QB 371. (7) [1981] ......
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When is a Subsidiary's Negligence the Parent Company's Problem?
..., above n 32, at [205] per Sir Geofrey Vos C. 225 Williams , above n 7, at 835–837 per Lord Steyn; and Trevor Ivory Ltd v Anderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517 (CA). 226 Taylor , above n 7, at [33]–[34] per William Young P. When is a Subsidiary’s Negligence the Parent Company’s Problem? 193 Some criti......
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Directors’‘Tortious’ Liability: Contract, Tort or Company Law?
...Law, The University of Auckland.1Sealand of the Pacific vRobert C McHaffie Ltd (1974) 51 DLR (3d) 702; Trevor Ivory Ltd vAnderson [1992] 2 NZLR 517; Banfield vJohnson (1994) 7 NZCLC 260, 496; King vMilpurrurru(1996) 136 ALR 327; Microsoft Corporation vAuschina Polaris Pty Ltd [1996–7] 142 A......
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