Dispute Resolution Hub
Under Duress – Avoiding a Contract
14 June 2019“Sign the agreement or else those pictures of you and the Duchess might end up in the hands of the Daily Mail…”. The English courts have never been fond of blackmail and it is now well-established that a contract may be avoided on the grounds of duress, where one party exerts illegitimate pressure on another such that the other party has no practical alternative but to accede to their demands and enter into a contract.
Read moreFrustrated by Brexit?
18 March 2019Whatever your views on Brexit and whether the UK should leave or remain and on what terms, Brexit seems a source of frustration for many people. The question that the court had to decide was: can a contract be frustrated because of Brexit?
Read moreIt is not just named parties that can sue under a contract…
18 March 2019In Filatona Trading Ltd and another v Navigator Equities Ltd and others the Court held that an LCIA arbitral tribunal did not exceed the scope of its powers in ordering relief that was not available to an English court.
Read moreMind Your Words: Entire Agreement Clause fails to act as bar to misrepresentation claim
6 December 2018On appeal to the High Court has held that an entire agreement clause that did not expressly exclude liability for misrepresentation was not effective in excluding misrepresentation claims.
Read moreA strict interpretation
23 October 2018The Bou Simon v BGC Brokers LP case proves a salient reminder of the strict approach the court will take when deciding whether to imply a term into a contract.
Read moreLittle faith to be had in implied terms of good faith
3 October 2018In a decision which will be welcomed by lenders, the High Court held in Standish & Ors v The Royal Bank of Scotland plc & Sig Number 2 Ltd (formerly West Register Number 2 Ltd) (RBS and West Register) that there was no general equitable duty for mortgagors to act in good faith.
Read moreExclusion clauses, reasonableness and freedom of contract
27 July 2018Following a fire at its premises, Goodlife Foods Limited (Goodlife) commenced proceedings against Hall Fire Protection Limited (Hall Fire) for breach of contract and/or negligence in the supply and installation of a fire suppression system. In its defence Hall Fire sought to rely on an exclusion of liability clause contained within its standard terms and […]
Read moreObserve the formalities: the Supreme Court upholds anti-oral variation clauses
15 June 2018In a judgment with potentially wide-reaching commercial ramifications, the Supreme Court in Rock Advertising Limited (Respondent) v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited (Appellant) [2018] UKSC 24, has overturned the Court of Appeal’s decision by holding that a ‘No Oral Modification’ (NOM) clause was legally effective. In 2011, Rock Advertising Ltd (Rock Advertising) entered into a […]
Read moreNotification clauses and the importance of being specific
17 May 2018The Court of Appeal has sent out a warning to parties intending to pursue a breach of warranty claim in a recent decision highlighting the importance of contractual notification provisions. The court’s strict approach in Teoco UK Limited v (1) Aircom Jersey 4 Limited (2) Aircom Global Operations Limited is a reminder that where a […]
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