Articles tagged as Contract Law
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Triple Point Technology, Inc v PTT Public Company Ltd [2021] UKSC 29
Case Summaries
When PTT ended its software contract because Triple Point had fallen badly behind, the question was whether an agreed daily sum for delay remained payable for work that Triple Point had never finished and PTT had never accepted. The Supreme Court held that it was payable for delay up to termination. By a majority, it […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Harcus Sinclair LLP and another v Your Lawyers Ltd [2021] UKSC 32
Case Summaries
Two law firms wanted to explore collaboration on Volkswagen emissions claims. One promised not to act for a rival claimant group without the other’s permission. Their collaboration was never formalised, so the question was whether that contemplated opportunity could still justify enforcing the promise. Your Lawyers Ltd was preparing a group claim arising from the […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Pakistan International Airline Corporation v Times Travel (UK) Ltd [2021] UKSC 40
Case Summaries
Times Travel depended on tickets from an airline entitled to end its agency agreement. When the airline insisted on a waiver of disputed commission, the travel agent faced a severe commercial choice. The question was whether a threat to do something lawful could make the resulting waiver voidable for economic duress. The agency and the […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
X v Kuoni Travel Ltd [2021] UKSC 34
Case Summaries
A package-tour organiser had promised more than flights and a hotel room. The issue was whether its promise also covered ordinary assistance by hotel staff, and whether it could rely on an unforeseeable-event defence when a guest was assaulted during that assistance. The contract and the assault X bought a package holiday from Kuoni which […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Peninsula Securities Ltd v Dunnes Stores (Bangor) Ltd [2020] UKSC 36
Case Summaries
The Supreme Court held that a covenant by a shopping-centre developer, preventing substantial competing retail units in favour of an anchor tenant, did not engage the common-law doctrine against restraint of trade. Covenants of this kind have long formed an accepted part of commercial leasing arrangements, so they are enforceable without any inquiry into reasonableness. […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Wells v Devani [2019] UKSC 4
Case Summaries
An estate agent and a vendor agreed by telephone that the agent would be paid 2% plus VAT if he found a purchaser for unsold flats, but they never stated when that commission would become payable. The Supreme Court held that their words and conduct still made a binding contract: on the usual understanding, commission […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
X v Kuoni Travel Ltd (reference to the Court of Justice) [2019] UKSC 37
Case Summaries
X sought damages from her package tour operator after a hotel employee raped and assaulted her. In this 2019 decision, the Supreme Court referred questions about the operator’s statutory defence to the Court of Justice. Liability remained to be decided. X had booked a package holiday with Kuoni. A hotel employee offered to guide her […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Morris-Garner and another v One Step (Support) Ltd [2018] UKSC 20
Case Summaries
The Supreme Court held that damages for breach of a non-competition covenant are normally compensation for the financial loss actually caused, not a hypothetical fee for releasing the covenant. One Step (Support) Ltd sued two former associates who competed through another company in breach of covenants given when they left the business. The majority decided […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Rock Advertising Limited v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited [2018] UKSC 24
Case Summaries
Rock Advertising claimed that MWB had orally agreed to reschedule arrears under a written office licence which required any variation to be set out in writing and signed. The Supreme Court held that this no oral modification clause made the oral arrangement ineffective, so MWB could stand on the original payment terms. MWB Business Exchange […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Wood v Capita Insurance Services Limited [2017] UKSC 24
Case Summaries
The Supreme Court dismissed Capita’s appeal about an indemnity in a share sale agreement. It held that the sellers’ promise to cover losses from pre-completion mis-selling of insurance was triggered only by a claim against the company, a seller or a relevant person, or by a complaint registered with a regulator against one of them. […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Globalia Business Travel S.A.U. (formerly TravelPlan S.A.U.) of Spain v Fulton Shipping Inc of Panama [2017] UKSC 43
Case Summaries
After the charterers repudiated an agreed extension of a time charter of the cruise ship New Flamenco, the owners sold her in October 2007 for US$23,765,000. By the date on which she would have been redelivered in November 2009, her value had fallen to US$7,000,000. The Supreme Court held that this difference in capital value […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
MT Højgaard A/S v E.ON Climate & Renewables UK Robin Rigg East Limited and another [2017] UKSC 59
Case Summaries
The Supreme Court held the contractor liable for the early failure of the foundations of two offshore wind farms. The technical requirements stated that the design of the foundations shall ensure a lifetime of 20 years, and that requirement was a binding contractual obligation which had not been met. Compliance with an international standard containing […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42
Case Summaries
Resulting trusts and illegality; insider dealing and unjust enrichment. Patel had given Mirza £620,000 to bet on shares in a company using inside information. The agreement between them amounted to a conspiracy to commit the offence of insider dealing contrary to s53 Criminal Justice Act 1993. ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
PST Energy 7 Shipping LLC and another v O W Bunker Malta Limited and another [2016] UKSC 23
Case Summaries
The owners of the vessel Res Cogitans consumed bunkers supplied under terms that reserved title until payment but permitted use for propulsion. They contended that, because property had not passed, they were not liable to pay the price to the insolvent supplier under the Sale of Goods Act 1979. The Supreme Court held that the […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
NYK Bulkship (Atlantic) NV v Cargill International SA [2016] UKSC 20
Case Summaries
The Global Santosh was arrested in Nigeria in support of a demurrage claim between parties below the time charter, in a dispute that had nothing to do with the owners. The owners contended that hire continued because the arrest was occasioned by the time charterers’ agents. The Supreme Court held by a majority that it […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Hayward v Zurich Insurance Company plc [2016] UKSC 48
Case Summaries
Zurich settled Mr Colin Hayward's personal injury claim for £134,973.11 while suspecting that he had exaggerated his back injury, but without knowing the full extent of the exaggeration. After neighbours later gave evidence of fraud, the Supreme Court held that the settlement could be set aside even though Zurich had not believed his account. His […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
