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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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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Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd
... ... 2 The appellant is a company which provides security services. In 1968 it entered into a contract with the respondents by which for a charge of £8.15.0d. (old currency) per week it agreed to "provide their Night Patrol Service whereby four visits ... ...
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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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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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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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Western Excavating (ECC) Ltd v Sharp
... ... in the Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 in these words: An employee shall "be taken to be dismissed by his employer if, but only if, - (a) the contract under which he is employed by the employer is terminated by the employer, whether it is so terminated by notice or without notice, or (b) where under ... ...
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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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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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Heyman v Darwins Ltd
... ... 1 The Lord Chancellor (READ BY LORD MACMILLAN) My Lords, ... 2 By a written contract dated 19th February, 1938, the Respondents, who are manufacturers of steel in Sheffield, as Principals, appointed the Appellants, whose business ... ...
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