Edwards v Skyways Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1964
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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2 firm's commentaries
  • How Comforting Is A Comfort Letter?
    • Canada
    • Mondaq Canada
    • December 28, 2011
    ...p. 798). Banque Brussels Lambert SA v. Australian National industries Ltd. (1989), 21 N.S.W.L.R. 502 (S.C.). Edwards v. Skyways Ltd, [1964] 1 All E.R. 494 Toronto Dominion Bank v. Leigh Instruments Ltd. (Trustee of) (1998), 40 B.L.R. (2d) 1 (Ont. Ct. (Gen Div.)), affd 45 O.R. (3d) 417 (ONCA......
  • Revival of the Letter of Comfort
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • September 7, 2004
    ...Einstein was that in commercial transactions there is a presumption of an intention to create legal relations (Edwards v Skyways Limited (1964) 1 WLR 349) and the onus to prove otherwise rested with the Swiss parent in this case. Given the commercial circumstances and the terms of the lette......
5 books & journal articles
  • Consideration and Form
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Enforceability
    • August 4, 2020
    ...took early retirement in reliance on a promise of a substantial payment, the promise would be enforceable. See Edwards v Skyways Ltd , [1964] 1 All ER 494 (QB). See also Maier v E&B Exploration Ltd , [1986] 4 WWR 275 (Alta CA) (altered terms of employee compensation induced continued employ......
  • Intention to Create Legal Relations
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Formation
    • August 4, 2020
    ...In Rose and Frank Company v JR Crompton and Brothers Ltd 10 8 See Chapter 2, Section B(1). 9 See, for example, Edwards v Skyways Ltd, [1964] 1 All ER 494 (QB) [ Edwards ] (employer orally agrees to make ex gratia payments to pilots who accept redundancy — presumption applies — onus on emplo......
  • Intention to Create Legal Relations
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive The Law of Contracts. Second Edition Formation
    • August 29, 2012
    ...In Rose and Frank Company v. J.R. Crompton and Brothers 8 See Chapter 2, Section B(1). 9 See, for example, Edwards v. Skyways Ltd., [1964] 1 All E.R. 494 (Q.B.) [ Edwards ] (employer orally agrees to make ex gratia payments to pilots who accept redundancy — presumption applies — onus on emp......
  • Contract and the family: whither intention?
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 26 No. 3, December 2002
    • December 1, 2002
    ...(15) Ibid 100. This is the `more limited proposition' advanced by the respondent on the appeal: at 103. (16) Edwards v Skyways Ltd [1964] 1 WLR 349; Rose and Frank Co v J R Crompton & Bros Ltd [1932] 2 KB (17) Stephen Hedley argued that `where parties are dealing at arms' length', the r......
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