Contract Consideration in UK Law
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Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
... ... Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause: It is ... , Ltd., and whether they would be good for an advertising contract for £8,000 to £9,000. I replied, the company recently opened an account ... ...
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Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd
... ... , Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause: It is ... Leeds the business of manufacturing textile machinery, and by a contract in writing dated the 12th July, 1939, the Respondents agreed to supply the ... ...
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Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington London Borough Council
... ... made by the Bank to the Council was made under a purported contract which, unknown to both parties, was ultra vires the Council and so void, o consideration having been given for the making of the payment. The decision by the ... ...
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Malik and Mahmud v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA
... ... than a reflection of what goes without saying in any ordinary contract of employment, namely, that in agreeing to work for an employer the ... , and the other ingredients of the cause of action now under consideration, may give rise to lengthy and costly investigations and, ultimately, ... ...
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Lipkin Gorman (A Firm)(Original Appellants and Cross-Respondents) v Karpnale Ltd (Formerly Playboy Club of London Ltd) (Original Respondents and Cross-Appellants)
... ... respondents were nevertheless mere volunteers who gave no consideration for the stolen money. This was the common sense view expressed in the ... The club contends that the club received money from Cass under a contract with him which was not a contract "by way of gaming or wagering" and is ... ...
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Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi; ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis
... ... the issue in relation to two clauses in a substantial commercial contract. The second appeal, ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis , raises the issue at a ... four tests "which, if applicable to the case under consideration, may prove helpful, or even conclusive" (p 87). They were (a) that the ... ...
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Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd
... ... are building contractors who in September 1985 had entered into a contract with Shepherds Bush Housing Association Ltd. to refurbish a block of flats ... £575 per completed flat, is unenforceable since there was no consideration for it. This issue was not raised in the defence, but we are told that the ... ...
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Heyman v Darwins Ltd
... ... Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause: It is ... 2 By a written contract dated 19th February, 1938, the Respondents, who are manufacturers of steel ... ...
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Homburg Houtimport BV v Agrosin Private Ltd (Starsin)
... ... has been signed 33 IDENTITY OF CARRIER The Contract evidenced by this Bill of Lading is between the Merchant and the Owner of ... pertinent where the issue is one which, like that now under consideration, has been the subject of repeated litigation over the years in cases which ... ...
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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 ... effect of the mistake was to deprive the agreement of the consideration underlying it. Under common law, so he submits, the effect of such a ... ...
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