Contract Frustration in UK Law

  • Frustration of purpose and the French Contract Law reform
    • No. 25-3, June 2018
    • Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law
    Frustration of purpose remains one of the most ill-defined concepts in the English law of contracts. The same problem has also recently attracted the attention of the French legislature in its mode...
  • FRUSTRATION OF CONTRACT IN COMPARATIVE LAW AND IN THE NEW GREEK CIVIL CODE OF 1946 (Article 388)
    • No. 11-1, January 1948
    • The Modern Law Review
  • Why Exporters Need Export Credit
    • No. 4-1, February 2013
    • Global Policy
    ... ... , and the security or otherwise of receiving payment under the contract, together with more familiar risks such as the risk of the buyer becoming ... and covers losses incurred as a result of export contract frustration. It helps to protect the exporter ’ s contract cash fl ow and bottom ... ...
  • Frustrating Delay
    • No. 46-6, November 1983
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... delay in performance on a party's obligations under a contract. Such a delay can have serious consequences. The performance ... this point, when we come up against the notion of frustration, that our difficullies really begin. As long ago as 1958 the ... ...
  • Filippo Ranieri, EUROPÄISCHES OBLIGATIONENRECHT – EIN HANDBUCH MIT TEXTEN UND MATERIALIEN Vienna: Springer (www.springer.com), 3rd edn, 2009. xxviii + 2044 pp. ISBN 9783211893739. €260.
    • No. , September 2012
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 453-454
    ... ... (19–118) sketches out the basic conceptions of the law of contract in general and ends with a useful appendix (119–125) about the ... of breach of contract and contractual remedies, including frustration of a contract, are generally contained in chapter six (551–852) and ... ...
  • Unwinding Failed Contracts: New European Developments
    • No. , January 2017
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 1-29
    ... ... dealing with the effect of a change of circumstances on the contract. 4 But the draft also contains substantial innovations, such as rules on ... ? Do we, in this respect, have to distinguish between breach, frustration, avoidance and invalidity? ... Both the Swiss draft and the new Code ... ...
  • RE-EXAMINING CONTRACT AND UNJUST ENRICHMENT: ANGLO-CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES. Ed by Paula Giliker Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (www.brill.nl), 2007. xxx + 341 pp. ISBN 9789004155633. €133.
    • No. , June 2009
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 535-537
    ... ... The Scottish background thereby became part of the unhappy UK experience in matters of frustration of contract ... James Davey's essay on remedies for non-payment of an insurance claim is an instructive analysis of the experience of the Common ... ...
  • RECENT PERIODICAL LITERATURE
    • No. 11-2, April 1948
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... 1'. 11. \ViNwm.n : Equity nntl Quasi-Contract, 64 L.Q.IL 461 this is u tliscusslon of Ciises or riitlirr ... 29 its series on 'The trcntrncnt of 'I frustration of contract 'I in foreign legnl systems I; A. L. CoRniN : ... ...
  • FRUSTRATED CONTRACTS AND LEGAL FICTIONS
    • No. 46-1, January 1983
    • The Modern Law Review
    “Someone says to me: ‘Show the children a game.’ I teach them gaming with dice, and the other says, ‘I didn't mean that sort of game.’ Must the exclusion of the game with dice have come before his ...
    ... ... As a result, freedom of contract has been overshadowed by a judicial “ right ” to add terms ... is now permitted in See in general McNair, “ Frustration of Contracts by War ” (1940) 56 L.Q.R. 173; Wade, “The ... ...
  • Notes of Cases
    • No. 49-6, November 1986
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... Neill L.J. noted that the captain’s contract of employment was made, and remained, with the owners of the ... reliance on outdated sophistry? BRENDA BAR RE^* FRUSTRATION OF THE CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT AND STATUTORY LABOUR LAW A ... ...
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