Contract Acceptance in UK Law
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Contract Variations: Implied Acceptance?
In Wess v Science Museum Group UKEAT/0120/14/DM, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether an employee had impliedly accepted a variation of her contract of employment by continuing t...
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Contract formation – prescribed mode of acceptance can be waived by conduct
In Reveille Independent LLC v Anotech International (UK) Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 443 the Court of Appeal ruled that a binding contract can be made by the parties' conduct even when a written 'Deal Memo...
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Reconsidering Repudiations of Contracts: Recent Developments
A repudiation of a contract is a breach of contract by one party that is sufficiently serious to entitle the other party to treat the contract as terminated with immediate effect and to sue for dam...... ... : Recent Developments By Oliver Browne A repudiation of a contract is a breach of contract by one party that is sufficiently serious to ... Company (No.2) [2002] 2 All ER (Comm), a middle ground between acceptance of repudiation and affirmation of the contract when the innocent party is ... ...
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English Contract Law and Oral Contracts - Your Word May Still Be Your Bond
Verbal contracts have their place in English law - Whether it was American movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn or the Australian/Irish politician Bryan O’Loghlen who first said, ‘A verbal contract is...... ... appearances, agreed the same terms ... on the same subject matter, normally ... through offer and acceptance (Air ... Studios (Lyndhurst) Limited T/A ... Entertainment Group v Lombard ... North Central PLC [2012]). However, ... many ... ...
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Contract Still Binding Even Though It Referred To A Formal Contract To Follow
... ... Immingham brought an action against Clear for non-payment of invoices, on the basis that a contract was brought into existence by its acceptance of Clear's offer on 9th January. Clear argued that its return of the quotation was not an offer capable of acceptance because of the reference to a ... ...
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Not signed, not enforceable? How UK employers can enforce restrictive covenants in unsigned contracts.
Restrictive covenants are a common feature of many employment contracts. They are favoured by employers which want to ensure that departing employees will not solicit business, compete, poach clie...... ... discover when the employee leaves your company that his latest contract wasnt signed? Are the restrictive covenants in it still enforceable? The ... is irrelevant), the main way for the employer to prove acceptance of the contract terms by the former employee is by demonstrating implicit ... ...
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Contract By Conduct: A Reminder From The Commercial Court
... ... clearly contains completion formality requirements, the conduct of the parties may amount to a waiver of those requirements and both acceptance of the offer and communication of acceptance ... Background ... The claimant, a US-based television company, had entered into a "deal ... ...
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Acceptance Certificate Precludes Claim For Damages
... ... Olympic (which by this time had ceased trading) counterclaimed for damages for breach of contract by ACG in failing to deliver in the aircraft in the contractual condition, i.e. the costs of hiring substitute aircraft and attempting to make the ... ...
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Formation Of A Contract
... ... that there is clarity and mutual agreement at ... every stage of the process, from the original offer through to the ... final acceptance. Parties should understand what the terms of the ... contract are and when key stages of the formation process are ... In this article, we explain ... ...
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Was There a Contract? What Did the Provision That 'a Formal Contract Will Then Follow in Due Course' Mean?
... ... The Issue ... Was a contract made by the acceptance in Immingham's email of 9 January 2009 of an offer constituted by the return on 5 January 2009 of the quotation signed on behalf of Clear, ... ...
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