Contracts in UK Law

  • Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society
    • House of Lords
    • 19 June 1997
    ... ... His lawyer would reply that abatement has a technical meaning in the law of nuisance, and in connection with contracts for the sale of goods and the provision of services. But otherwise it simply means reduction. It has no technical meaning in relation to rescission ... ...
  • Beswick v Beswick
    • Court of Appeal
    • 22 June 1966
    ... ... 615 ... That case is cited in the text books as if it were the last word on the subject, see Anson on Contracts (1964, 22nd Edition, p. 381): Cheshire & Fifoot on Contracts (1960, 5th Edition, p. 377). It is very like this case. So we must examine it with some ... ...
  • Western Excavating (ECC) Ltd v Sharp
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 November 1977
    ... ... They introduce a new concept into contracts of employment. It is that the employer must act reasonably in his treatment of his employees. If he conducts himself or his affairs so unreasonably ... ...
  • Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 May 1963
    ... ... Peek. The whole of the doctrine as to fiduciary relationships, as to the duty of care arising from implied as well as express contracts, as to the duty of care arising from other special relationships which the courts may find to exist in particular cases, still remains, and I should ... ...
  • Alexey Samarenko v Dawn Hill House Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 01 December 2011
    ... ... So important is the payment of a deposit that in the vast majority of conveyancing transactions the seller will simply refuse to exchange contracts until the deposit monies are safely in his own hands or the hands of a stakeholder. Without actual receipt of the deposit monies the deposit cannot ... ...
  • Mannai Investment Company Ltd v Eagle Star Life Assurance Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 21 May 1997
    ... ... The approach in Reardon Smith Line Ltd. v. Yngvar Hansen-Tangen [1976] 1 W.L.R. 989 , which deals with the construction of commercial contracts, is by analogy of assistance in respect of unilateral notices such as those under consideration in the present case. Relying on the reasoning in Lord ... ...
  • Sharma and another v Simposh Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 November 2011
    ... ... land can only be made in writing and only by incorporating all the terms which the parties have expressly agreed in one document or, where contracts are exchanged, in each." The section implemented the recommendations of the Law Commission in its report on Transfer of Land (1987) ... ...
  • Easy Air Ltd v Opal Telecom Ltd
    • Chancery Division
    • 08 April 2009
    ... ... 13 9. Under the terms of the SPA Openair sold to Opal its rights under existing subscriber contracts, and also its subscriber base. Under the terms of the dealer agreement Opal appointed Openair as its non-exclusive agent for attracting subscribers, ... ...
  • Rainy Sky SA and Others v Kookmin Bank
    • Supreme Court
    • 02 November 2011
    ... ... 1 This appeal raises a short question of construction of shipbuilder's refund guarantees given pursuant to six shipbuilding contracts ("the Contracts"). The Contracts, which were all dated 11 May 2007, were between each of the first to sixth claimants ("the Buyers") and Jinse ... ...
  • Fuji Finance Inc. v Aetna Life Insurance Company Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 04 July 1996
    ... ... long term business by reference to Schedule 1 which includes in Number III the linked long term business of effecting and carrying out contracts of insurance on human life where the benefits are wholly determined by reference to the value of property. Financial Services Act 1986 indicates a ... ...
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