Quantum Meruit in UK Law

  • Quantum Meruit and the Managing Director
    • No. 29-6, November 1966
    • The Modern Law Review
  • Better than Fuller: A Two Interests Model of Remedies for Breach of Contract
    • No. 78-2, March 2015
    • The Modern Law Review
    The attempt to combine the contractual interests properly so‐called with the restitution interest in the Fuller and Purdue three interests model of remedies for breach of contract is ineradicably i...
    ... ... quantum meruit , this paper argues that the complete elimination from the law of ... ...
  • Unjust Enrichment and Contract
    • No. 77-6, November 2014
    • The Modern Law Review
    Benedetti v Sawiris was concerned with the measure of a quantum meruit, and in particular whether a ‘subjective’ or ‘objective’ measure should be preferred. The Supreme Court addressed the issue br...
    ... ... Jaffey * Benedetti v Sawiris was concerned with the measure of a quantum meruit, and in particular whether a ‘subjective’ or ‘objective’ ... ...
  • Missing Reliance
    • No. 63-6, November 2000
    • The Modern Law Review
    Book reviewed in this article: Andrew Burrows, Understanding the Law of Obligations: Essays on Contract,Tort and Restitution
    ... ... more generous tort law rules on, say, limitation or remoteness or quantum. In the case where the defendant damages the property of the plaintiff in ... took the form of money had and received, and the latter the quantum meruit. There is a vitiated transfer of property or wealth of the plaintiff where ... ...
  • Restitutionary Remedies in the Contractual Context
    • No. 76-3, May 2013
    • The Modern Law Review
    Contracting parties sometimes have a claim to recover money paid in advance, or for reasonable payment for work done under the contract, commonly described as restitutionary remedies. This claim ar...
    ... ... to reasonable payment for what he has done in the form of a quantum meruit. 4 These remedies are commonly described as restitutionary ... ...
  • Restitution where an Anticipated Contract Fails to Materialise
    • No. 59-1, January 1996
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... the force of Burrows’ arguments with respect to quantum meruit claims for unfinished work.27 This being so, Birks may ... ...
  • Contractual Rights under Articles of Association―An Overlooked Principle Illustrated
    • No. 28-3, May 1965
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... made on the basis of either an implied contract or a quantum meruit. Plowman J. agreed with the liquidator. His Lordship ... ...
  • HIDDEN TREASURE--OR NATIONAL TREASURE?
    • Vol. 23 No. 4, December 2018
    • Art Antiquity & Law
    • Redmond-Cooper, Ruth
    ... ... ? Or is it possible to apply the principles of unjust enrichment or quantum meruit to award a fair sum as compensation? ... THE DISCOVERY ... In ... ...
  • Breach of contract and termination
    • Construction Law. Volume II - Third Edition
    • Julian Bailey
    • 771-854
    ... ... be able to bring a claim for damages or unjust enrichment (on a quantum meruit ). 404 Furthermore, where an owner repudiates a contract, and that ... ...
  • What is the Point of Ultra Vires?
    • No. 29-2, March 1966
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... % Stronger authority for a claim on a qunsi-contrsctual quantum meruit basis he found in Craven-Ellis v. Canons LtdZ5 No such ... ...
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