Wrotham Park Estate Company Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1974
Year1974
CourtChancery Division
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222 cases
  • Winter and Another v Traditional & Contemporary Contracts Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 7 Noviembre 2007
    ...share approach is well recognised in civil proceedings for breach of restrictive covenants. A classic example is Wrotham Park Estate Co v Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 798. In that case a developer had built a number of houses in breach of a covenant. Brightman J refused to grant a mandat......
  • Stoke-on-Trent City Council v W. & J. Wass Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 Julio 1988
    ...has suffered no loss. 15To these exceptions to the general rules in tort must be added the decision of Brightman J. in Wrotham Park Estate Co. Ltd. v. Parkside Homes Ltd. [1974] 1 WLR, 798. In that case the first defendants had erected houses and constructed roads in breach of a restrictiv......
  • Jaggard v Sawyer
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 Julio 1994
    ...his remedy to an injunction if the court is then, by suspending the injunction, to deny him any remedy at all. 43In Wrotham Park Estate Co Limited v Parkside Homes Limited [1974] 1 WLR 798 a developer built a number of houses in breach of a covenant restraining him from building save in ac......
  • Marathon Asset Management LLP and Another v James Seddon and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 22 Febrero 2017
    ...have charged the defendants for releasing them from the obligations of which they are in breach. Such damages are often referred to as " Wrotham Park damages" after the case of Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 798 in which such a measure was first articulated......
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6 firm's commentaries
  • Energy Litigation Update: Measure of Damages for Breach of a Contract to Drill Exploratory Oil or Gas Well: U.S. and English Law.
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • 4 Junio 2014
    ...would be to award so-called “Wrotham Park” or “negotiating” damages, named after the decision in Wrotham Park Estate Co v Parkside Homes [1974] 1 WLR 798, where damages are measured by reference to the benefit gained by the wrongdoer from the breach of contract. In that case, the defendant ......
  • Bad news for jackpot damages: Wrotham Park and the Supreme Court
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • 25 Abril 2018
    ...damages. Click here to download PDF. 1 Pronounced "Rootam" and named after Wrotham Park Estate Company Limited v Parkside Homes Limited [1974] 1 WLR 798. 2 Marathon Asset Management LLP v Seddon and others [2017] EWHC 300 (Comm), paras 282-283. 3One Step (Support) Ltd v Morris-Garner [2014]......
  • Cleary Gottlieb Discusses Non-Disclosure Agreements — Are They Effective?
    • United Kingdom
    • LexBlog United Kingdom
    • 2 Mayo 2023
    ...e Comercio SA [2017] EWHC 597 (Comm) [24] s12(4)(a)(i) Human Rights Act 1998 [25]Wrotham Park Estate Co. Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 798; Seager v Copydex Ltd [1967] 1 WLR 923 [26]as in the special context of obligations imposed on officers of the Secret Intelligence Service in A-......
  • Rights To Light: Are Injunctions A Thing Of The Past?
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 13 Mayo 2015
    ...1 Peter Scott and Frances Scott v Peter Aimiuwu and Catherine Aimiuwu [2015] 2 Wrotham Park Estate Co Limited v Parkside Homes Limited [1974] 1 WLR 798 The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your spe......
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58 books & journal articles
  • RE-EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUTUAL PROMISES IN CONTRACT LAW.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 45 No. 2, April 2022
    • 1 Abril 2022
    ...'A Relational Law of Contract?' (2004) 20(2) Journal of Contract Law 125, 140, citing Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd[1974] 1 WLR 798 and AG v Blake [2001] 1 AC 268. It should be noted that in One Step (Support) Ltd v Morris-Garner [2019] AC 649, 697-8 [114]-[115], Lord Sump......
  • ENLARGED PANELS IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December 2019
    • 1 Diciembre 2019
    ...2 SLR 129. 45 [2015] 5 SLR 1. 46 [2018] 2 SLR 655. 47 So named after the decisions of Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 798 and Attorney General v Blake [2001] 1 AC 268. 48 [2018] 1 SLR 363. 49 [2015] 5 SLR 1104. 50 [2018] 1 SLR 659. 51 The occurrence of three-jud......
  • CONTRACT LAW IN COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES: UNIFORMITY OR DIVERGENCE?
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December 2019
    • 1 Diciembre 2019
    ...on the much discussed decision by Brightman J in the English High Court decision of Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 798 (‘Wrotham Park’) (see also Robert J Sharpe and S M Waddams, “Damages for lost opportunity to bargain” (1982) 2 OJLS 290); reference may also b......
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Positive Covenants and Freehold Land Contents
    • 30 Agosto 2019
    ...1 IR 161, CA 197 Woodhouse v Walker (1880) 5 QBD 404, 44 JP 666, 49 LJQB 609, QBD 67 Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 798, [1974] 2 All ER 321, (1974) 27 P & CR 296, ChD 206, 207 Yorkbrook Investments Ltd v Batten (1986) 18 HLR 25, (1986) 52 P & CR 51, [1985] 2 E......
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