British Glanzstoff Manufacturing Company, Ltd v General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 28 October 1912 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1912] UKHL J1028-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 28 October 1912 |
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13 cases
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Triple Point Technology, Inc. v PTT Public Company Ltd
...of Lords. As Sir Rupert Jackson explains, the judgment of the House of Lords is more fully reported in the Reports of the Sessions Cases: 1913 SC (HL) 1. Viscount Haldane LC gave the leading judgment. He characterised clause 26 as “an enclave in the contract by itself providing for a specia......
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Re Sanpete Builders (S) Pte Ltd
...to liquidated damages after termination.In British Glanzstoff Manufacturing Co Ltd v General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp Ltd [1913] AC 143 the House of Lords held that a clause on liquidated damages applied only where the contractors had completed the contract and did not apply wher......
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LW Infrastructure Pte Ltd v Lim Chin San Contractors Pte Ltd
...and Shipping Ltd [1989] AC 1056 (folld) British Glanzstoff Manufacturing Co Ltd v General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Corp Ltd [1913] AC 143 (distd) British Glanzstoff Manufacturing Co Ltd, The v The General Accident, Fire, and Life Assurance Corp Ltd [1912] SC 591 (distd) Engineering......
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5 firm's commentaries
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The Supreme Court Favours "Orthodox Approach" To Liquidated Damages Clauses: Triple Point Technology, Inc v PTT Public Company Ltd ' Court Of Appeal Overturned
...clauses where a contractor fails to complete and a second contractor steps in: "(i) The clause does not apply: the Glanzstoff case [1913] AC 143; the Chanthall case 1976 SC 73; the Gibbs case 35 Con LR (ii) The clause only applies up to termination of the first contract: the Greenore case [......
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Liquidated Damages On Work Never Completed
...in the first approach (originally set out in British Glanzstoff Manufacturing Co Ltd v General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Co Ltd 1913 SC (HL) 1), but noted it was not cited frequently in modern cases despite it being a "decision of our highest court, which has never been The Court fo......
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Triple Point: More Than Simply 'Liquidated Damages'
...285 and 286 4. Ibid, paragraph 262 5. [2019] EWCA Civ 230, paragraphs 112 and 113 6. Ibid, paragraph 120 7. Ibid, paragraph 127 8. [1913] AC 143 9. Ibid, paragraph 10. Ibid, paragraph 112 11. Ibid, paragraph 109 12. [2021] UKSC 29, paragraph 35 13. Ibid, paragraph 42 14. Ibid, paragraph 48 ......
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UK Supreme Court Affirms “Orthodox” Approach to Liquidated Damages in English Law
...are not considered in this blog post. [3] British Glanzstoff Manufacturing Co Ltd v. General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Corpn Ltd [1913] AC 143. [4] The Court noted that the Glanzstoff decision was “little-known” and turned on the particular interpretation of the contract in question......
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