Krell v Henry
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1903 |
| Year | 1903 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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Planet Kids Ltd v Auckland Council
...not frustrated by cancellation of the review on the King's illness because the fleet was still at Spithead to be viewed. By contrast, in Krell v Henry [1903] 2 KB 740 (CA), a contract to rent rooms from which the coronation processions were to be viewed was frustrated when the processions ......
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7 firm's commentaries
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Managing contractual obligations and negotiations during the COVID-19 pandemic
...Suburbs Railway Case) (1982) 149 CLR 337. 5 Compare, for example, Herne Bay Steam Boat Co v Hutton [1903] 2 KB 683 and Krell v Henry [1903] 2 KB 740. 6 Frustrated Contracts Act 1978 (NSW); Frustrated Contracts Act 1988 (SA); Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012 (Vic). 7 Davis C......
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COVID-19: Disruption to Art Transactions
...those contemplated by the parties to the contract. Two classical references in English law are the famous coronation cases Krell v Henry [1903] 2 KB 740 and Herne Bay Steam Boat Company v Hutton [1903] 2 KB 683. These cases arose from the cancellation of coronation events due to King Edward......
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Frustrated Contracts In The COVID-19 World
...that it cannot reasonably be said to have been in the contemplation of the parties when the contract was entered into (Krell v. Henry, [1903] 2 K.B. 740). In the context of COVID-19, in most cases, the key questions are likely to be the first and second, being what was the substance of the ......
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The Dekagram 27th March 2023
...the postponement of the coronation operated to frustrate contracts to rent rooms with a view of the coronation procession (Krell v Henry [1903] 2 KB 740, and Chandler v Webster [1904] 1 KB 493), or for a seat on a viewing stand (Buckley v Muller [1903] 2 KB 760). In each of these cases, the......
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8 books & journal articles
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Frustration
...2 Taylor v Caldwell (1863), 3 B & S 826, 122 ER 309 (QB). 3 Tsakiroglou & Co v Noblee Thorl GmbH, [1962] AC 93 (HL). 4 Krell v Henry , [1903] 2 KB 740 (CA) [ Krell ]. 5 Metropolitan Water Board v Dick, Kerr & Co Ltd , [1918] AC 119 (HL) [ Metropolitan Water Board ]. 655 THE LAW OF CONTR ACT......
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No Act of God Necessary: Expanding Beyond Louisiana's Force Majeure Doctrine to Imprévision
...extinguishing the entire agreement if the standards are met. 157 148. See MCKENDRICK, supra note 29, at 53. 149. Krell v. Henry [1903] 2 K.B. 740. 150. MCKENDRICK, supra note 29, at 53. 151. See id. 152. See Krell , [1903] 2 K.B. 740. 153. MCKENDRICK, supra note 29, at 32 (listing the moder......
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Gap Filling to Address Changed Circumstances in Contract Law – When It Comes to Losses and Gains, Sharing Is the Fair Solution
...be clear by this point is t hat the problem of changed circumstanc es brings t wo opposing concepts into conict. O n the one hand 48 [1903] 2 KB 74049 75450 Williams v Evans 1978 1 SA 1170 (C); Hare’s Brickfiel ds Ltd v Cape Town City Counci l 1985 1 SA 769 (C); Sonare p (SA) (Pty) Ltd v M......
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Frustration in Crisis: How the Spanish Doctrine of Rebus Sic Stantibus Can Inform a Post-Pandemic Reexamination of English Contract Law' Approach to Hardship
...company Telefonica. The contract was signed by the 16 ibid; The Sea Angel (n 15) [111]. 17 Taylor v Caldwell (n 12). 18 Krell v Henry [1903] 2 KB 740. 19 J Lauritzen AS v Wijsmuller BV (The Super Servant Two) [1990] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 1 (CA) 2. 20 ibid [2]. 21 Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts) A......
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