Contract Mistakes in UK Law
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Bell v Lever Bros Ltd
... ... The earlier contract with Mr. Bell was replaced by a fresh agreement for five years from the ... These mistakes may be by one party, or by both, and the legal effect may depend upon the ... ...
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Great Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd (Cape Providence)
... ... exposition of the rules of law governing the effect of mistake on contract. In 1950 in Solle v Butcher [1950] 1 KB 671 Denning LJ identified an ... Mistakes have relevance in the law of contract in a number of different ... ...
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FSHC Group Holdings Ltd v Glas Trust Corporation Ltd
... ... correct test to apply in deciding whether the written terms of a contract may be rectified because of a common mistake. Introduction ... 51 The jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery to correct mistakes in written instruments by rectification can be traced back to its roots in ... ...
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Brennan v Bolt Burdon (A Firm) and Others
... ... For that reason I have set out the background against which the contract of compromise was made, its matrix ... 28 ... : "Operative mistake traditionally has been confined to mistakes of fact and not of law. This distinction has always been blurred and has ... ...
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Cambridge Antibody Technology v Abbott Biotechnology Ltd and another
... ... the parties as to what is the correct approach to construing a contract. That has been the subject of recent consideration at a high level. What ... that we do not easily accept that people have made linguistic mistakes, particularly in formal documents. On the other hand, if one would ... ...
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Littman and Youngv Aspen Oil (Broking) Ltd
... ... parties in the situation in which they were at the time of the contract (ibid. at 912G) ... 5 Until shortly before ... is said to apply only to obvious clerical blunders or grammatical mistakes. I agree with that approach. Perhaps it might be summarised by saying that ... ...
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Jeremy Philip Elston v Lawrence King
... ... Judge that the Income Payments Agreement was a form of statutory contract, 5 the Appellant's pleadings before the Judge kept the point open, 6 ... view (or persons' understanding of such decisions) in effect mistakes capable of having private law consequences. That is the approach taken in ... ...
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Kyle Bay Ltd (t/a Astons Nightclub) v Underwriters of Policy No 019057/08/01
... ... not bind me/us to complete the insurance but agree that should a contract of insurance be concluded this Proposal and statements herein shall form ... that we do not easily accept that people have made linguistic mistakes, particularly in formal documents. On the other hand, if one would ... ...
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Amey Wye Valley Ltd v The County of Herefordshire District Council
... ... They both arise out of the same contract, and indeed both arise out of the same adjudication, which was conducted ... he had jurisdiction to determine that dispute, whether he made mistakes in doing so or otherwise. As stated in Brown v Complete Building ... ...
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Connolly v Bellway Homes
... ... , Connolly Limited (“Connolly”) seeks rectification of a contract for the sale of a piece of land for mixed commercial and residential ... appreciate until 2005 that there had been – as it claims – mistakes made in the drafting of the agreement, or deceit (or both) ... ...
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