Contracts in UK Law

  • Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society
    • House of Lords
    • 19 juin 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 ... ...
  • Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 mai 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 ... ...
  • Western Excavating (ECC) Ltd v Sharp
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 novembre 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 ... ...
  • Mannai Investment Company Ltd v Eagle Star Life Assurance Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 21 mai 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 ... ...
  • Reardon Smith Line Ltd v Yngevar Hansen-Tangen (trading as H. E. Hansen-Tangen)
    • House of Lords
    • 07 octobre 1976
    ... ... was ready for delivery the market had collapsed, owing to the oil crisis of 1974, so that the charterers' interest was to escape from their contracts by rejecting the vessel. The ground on which they hoped to do so was that the vessel tendered did not correspond with the contractual description ... ...
  • Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd and another
    • House of Lords
    • 01 juillet 2009
    ... ... Moncreiff (at (1877) 4 R 58 , 64) had laid down a principle which was nearly accurate but not quite when he said that in all mercantile contracts "whether they be clear and distinct or the reverse, the Court is entitled to be placed in the position in which the parties stood before they ... ...
  • Rainy Sky SA and Others v Kookmin Bank
    • Supreme Court
    • 02 novembre 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 ... ...
  • Arnold v Britton and Others
    • Supreme Court
    • 10 juin 2015
    ... ... 45 years, the House of Lords and Supreme Court have discussed the correct approach to be adopted to the interpretation, or construction, of contracts in a number of cases starting with Prenn v Simmonds [1971] 1 WLR 1381 and culminating in Rainy Sky SA v Kookmin Bank [2011] UKSC 50 ; ... ...
  • Pettitt v Pettitt
    • House of Lords
    • 23 avril 1969
    ... ... Balfour [1919] 2 K.B. 571 that arrangements between spouses are not generally intended to be contracts or to have legal consequences. That is obviously right with regard to non-financial arrangements. And if the spouses arrange that one shall pay ... ...
  • Amalgamated Investment & Property Company Ltd v Texas Commerce International Bank Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 juillet 1981
    ... ... In such a case the document alone is treated as the agreement between the parties. As in all written contracts, however, it can embody terms previously agreed by other means. But to satisfy the Statute of Frauds 1677 it is put into writing as a written note or ... ...
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