Unilateral Agreement in UK Law

  • Yeoman's Row Management Ltd and another v Cobbe
    • House of Lords
    • 30 July 2008
    ... ... They reach an oral "agreement in principle" on the core terms of the sale but no written contract, or ... gift' cases, (2) the 'common expectation' cases, and (3) the 'unilateral mistake' cases. These cases alike present the essential characteristics of ... ...
  • R (Miller and Another) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union; Re McCord's application
    • Supreme Court
    • 24 January 2017
    ... ... Treaties to be given without first consulting or obtaining the agreement of the devolved legislatures. And, in the case of Northern Ireland, there ... The latter involves a unilateral action by the relevant constitutional bodies which effects a fundamental ... ...
  • Bell v Lever Bros Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 15 December 1931
    ... ... on an endowment policy, later to be mentioned, which under the agreement of settlement with him had been paid by Levers on his behalf ... 3 The ... to recission of the agreements of settlement on the ground of unilateral mistake, ended by propounding the view that they were so entitled also on ... ...
  • Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd and another
    • House of Lords
    • 01 July 2009
    ... ... On 16 October 2001 Chartbrook Ltd ("Chartbrook") entered into an agreement with Persimmon Homes Ltd ("Persimmon"), a well-known house-builder, for ... McLauchlan ("The 'Drastic' Remedy of Rectification for Unilateral Mistake" (2008) 124 LQR 608-640 )) asked for leave to challenge, for ... ...
  • Mannai Investment Company Ltd v Eagle Star Life Assurance Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 21 May 1997
    ... ... Holland ... With that reasoning, I find myself in complete agreement. It follows that the central question in the appeal before your Lordships' ... commercial contracts, is by analogy of assistance in respect of unilateral notices such as those under consideration in the present case. Relying on ... ...
  • United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the County Borough of Burnley now The Council of the Borough of Burnley
    • House of Lords
    • 23 March 1977
    ... ... specify a procedure for the determination of the revised rent by agreement between the parties or, failing that, by an independent valuer or ... them, either on the one hand as conferring upon the landlord a unilateral "option" for the exercise of which time was of the essence, or on the ... ...
  • Geys v Societe Generale, London Branch
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 December 2012
    ... ... contract for the entering into by the appellant of a termination agreement in the event of his employment with the Bank being terminated. The Bank's ... [under a break clause in a lease] belong to the general class of unilateral notices served under contractual rights reserved, eg notices to quit, ... ...
  • Great Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd (Cape Providence)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 October 2002
    ... ... the court to intervene where the parties have concluded an agreement that was binding in law under a common misapprehension of a fundamental ... consequent upon a case of voidability either for fraud or unilateral mistake induced by fraud. But if the allegation, even alternative, was ... ...
  • Marley v Rawlings and another
    • Supreme Court
    • 22 January 2014
    ... ... Thus, the court takes the same approach to interpretation of unilateral notices as it takes to interpretation of contracts — see Mannai ... expression, does not accurately reflect the [parties'] true agreement" — The Nai Genova [1984] 1 Lloyd's Rep 353, 359 ... It is available ... ...
  • Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 November 1989
    ... ... additional £10,300, instead alleging an earlier and different agreement which the judge found had not been made ... 13 In the amended defence ... the father's promise in this case as what is sometimes called a unilateral contract, a promise in return for an act, a promise by the father to pay ... ...
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