Sufficient Consideration in UK Law

  • Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 Novembro 1989
    ......£575 per completed flat, is unenforceable since there was no consideration for it. This issue was not raised in the defence, but we are told that the ... view it appears to me impossible to say that there was no sufficient evidence on which the finding could be based. This, then, being a lump sum ......
  • Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 Maio 1963
    ...... Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause: It is ... on the question of honesty if this had been in issue, are not sufficient to establish any special relationship involving a duty of care even if it ......
  • Evans v Bartlam
    • House of Lords
    • 30 Abril 1937
    ...... these two matters must necessarily enter into the Judge's consideration, is quite a different thing from asserting that their proof is a condition ...Such an undertaking, if given for sufficient consideration, so as to bind the Appellant, might have supported the ......
  • B (A Child)
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 Junho 2013
    ......' and serves to emphasise that there must be a 'relevant and sufficient' reason for crossing the threshold". I consider that, with respect to him, ... be reversed or that the application should be remitted for consideration afresh. By contrast a judge's failure to give adequate reasons for his ......
  • Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi; ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis
    • Supreme Court
    • 04 Novembro 2015
    ...... four tests "which, if applicable to the case under consideration, may prove helpful, or even conclusive" (p 87). They were (a) that the ...For the reason which we have given, ParkingEye had a sufficient interest even if that submission be correct. But in our opinion it is not ......
  • Dorset Yacht Company Ltd v Home Office
    • House of Lords
    • 06 Maio 1970
    ...... Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause: It is ... not think that a mere foreseeable possibility is or should be sufficient, for then the intervening human action can more properly be regarded as a ......
  • O'Sullivan v Management Agency and Music Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 Fevereiro 1984
    ...... rights in respect of the recordings of O'Sullivan's music in consideration of an advance of U.S. $1.2. million by E.M.I. to those Defendants. E.M.I. ...But there is sufficient consideration if there is detriment to the promisee (see Chitty on ......
  • Caparo Industries Plc v Dickman
    • House of Lords
    • 08 Fevereiro 1990
    ...... wrongdoer and the peson who has suffered damage there is a sufficient relationship of proximity or neighbourhood such that, in the reasonable ... purpose for which the audit was carried out is a relevent consideration in determining the extent of any general duty in tort owed by the ......
  • Trendtex Trading Corporation v Credit Suisse
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 02 Maio 1980
    ......Just as in maintenance, it is sufficient if the maintainer has a legitimate and genuine interest in the subject ...And provided also that it is made for good and sufficient consideration such as reasonably to warrant the assignment. If the assignee takes ......
  • Rock Advertising Ltd v MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 Maio 2018
    ...... to pay less money or the same money later, is supported by consideration. . . 2 MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd operates serviced ...He held (para 12) that it was a sufficient reason for refusing summary judgment that “the law on the topic is not ......
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