Contract Law in UK Law
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Malik and Mahmud v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA
... ... 12 This intuitive response is no more than a reflection of what goes without saying in any ordinary contract of employment, namely, that in agreeing to work for an employer the employee, whatever his status, cannot be taken to have agreed to work in ... ...
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Geys v Societe Generale, London Branch
... ... entitled to a sum contractually due to him in the form of a termination payment amounting to more than €12.5m and to damages for breach of contract. The Bank's case is that the appellant is entitled to a termination payment of no more than €7m, as he was dismissed on 29 November 2007 or at the ... ...
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Whitworth Street Estates (Manchester) Ltd v James Miller and Partners Ltd
... ... They accepted the Appellants' tender for the work and the contract made by the parties was in the form published by the Royal Institute of British Architects. This contract contained an arbitration clause and when ... ...
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Great Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd (Cape Providence)
... ... a speech which he must have anticipated would be treated as the definitive 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 equitable jurisdiction which permits the court to intervene where the parties ... ...
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Amin Rasheed Shipping Corporation v Kuwait Insurance Company
... ... Although the Assured had originally asserted that the contract of insurance had been made on its behalf by an agent trading in England, this failed on the facts; and in this House the only provision of rule 1(1) ... ...
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Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd and another
... ... As Lord Gifford explained, the very purpose of a formal contract is to put an end to the disputes which would inevitably arise if the matter were left upon what the parties said or wrote to each other during the ... ...
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Rookes v Barnard
... ... The Appellant has no remedy against B.O.A.C. They neither broke their contract with him nor committed any tort against him. In this action the Appellant seeks a remedy against two members and an official of the Union on the ... ...
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Johnson v Unisys Ltd
... ... When the first edition of Treitel's classic book on contract was published some 40 years ago the author described the exclusion of any claim by an employee for financial loss to reputation as hard to justify: ... ...
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Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington London Borough Council
... ... Bank's right to restitution at common law arose from the fact that the payment 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, no consideration having been given for the making of the payment. The ... ...
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Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
... ... without responsibility on our part, the respectability and standing of Easipower, 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 with us. Believed to be respectably constituted and considered good for its ... ...
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