Promissory Estoppel in UK Law
- THE PROBLEM PROMISSORY NOTE: A QUESTION OF ESTOPPEL
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A Strange Sort of Survival for Pinnel's Case: Collier v P & M J Wright (Holdings) Limited
This note discusses the decision of the Court of Appeal in Collier v P & M J Wright (Holdings) Limited, and notes that while the Court purports to uphold both the decision in Pinnel's Case and the ...... ... and the e¡ect of Re Selectmove , in fact, by an extension of promissory estoppel,it bypasses them. In Collier v P & M J W right (Holdings) ... ...
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VARIATION, WAIVER AND ESTOPPEL—A RE‐APPRAISAL
... ... deal with the problem of absence of consideration in such situations has been to develop the doctrine of equitable or promissory estoppel.‘ Neither the precise requirements nor the effect of the doctrine appear to be settled. The overall picture is thus ... ...
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MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd: The Practical Benefit Doctrine Marches On
In MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd v Rock Advertising Ltd the Court of Appeal held that when an ongoing contract is varied so that one party's obligation to pay money is reduced, the variation is...... ... an agreed part-payment of a debt by a debtor will always raise an estoppel pre venting the creditor from demanding the remainder of the debt ... 5 ,1 6a n dM .H .Og i l v i e ,‘ P a r tP a y m e n t , Promissory Estoppel and Lord Denning’s “Brilliant” Balance’ (2010) 49 ... ...
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Martin Hogg, PROMISES AND CONTRACT LAW: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org), 2011. xxxvii + 505pp. ISBN 9780521193382. £85.
... ... journeys over time and space in a voyage seeking to explore the promissory element of contractual obligation. It constitutes a detailed comparative ... The author presents the doctrine of promissory estoppel, wonders whether this form of liability is promissory or reliance-based, ... ...
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Contract as Promise: The Role of Promising in the Law of Contract. An Historical Account
... ... In Stair's day the apparently generous view of promissory liability in Scots law was tempered by formality requirements. Promises, ... same time, the role of promises, under the guise of promissory estoppel, as a freestanding ground of liability has arguably increased ... ...
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The High Trees Case: Promise or Gift
... ... two outstanding questions by insisting that equitable estoppel is only available to a party who has altered his position ... Again, Lord Hodson’s preference for the term promissory as against quasi estoppel seems surprising since the latter ... ...
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The Classical Legacy and Modern English Contract Law
... ... woven from sources including the tort of negligence, promissory estoppel, collateral contract and the law of ... ...
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NOTES OF CASES
... ... NOTES OF CASES CONSIDERATION AND ESTOPPEL: THE THAWING OF THE ICE THERE are signs that the polar ice ... younger relationship between consideration and promissory estoppel. In my Consideration in Contracts I suggested that the ... ...
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The Drunk Driver's Passenger
... ... the difficulties inherent in the concept of promissory estoppel. J. UNOER. THE DRUNK DRIVER’S PASSENGER Two recent ... ...
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