Module 10 - Termination of Contracts
Topics
- Introduction
- Repudiation as an offer capable of acceptance
- Effect of termination for breach
- Election to terminate for breach
- Notice of termination for breach
- Anticipatory breach – Express repudiation
- What amounts to repudiation?
- Anticipatory breach – Inability to perform obvious in advance
- Mitigation and Anticipatory Breach
- Continued performance in the face of repudiation
- Comparison with rescission for misrepresentation - effect
- Relief from forfeiture
- Termination Clauses
Cases
- Afovos Shipping Company v Panyan & Fratelli [1983] 1 WLR 195 HL
- Antaios Cia Naviera SA v Salen Rederierna AB, “The Antaios” [1985] AC 191, 201; [1984] 3 WLR 592
- Artpower Ltd v Bespoke Couture Ltd (No 4) [2006] EWCA Civ 1696 CA
- Attica Sea Carriers Corporation v Ferrostaal Poseidon Bulk Reederei GmbH, The Puerto Buitago [1976] 1 Lloyd's Rep 250 CA
- Avery v Bowden (1855) 5 E&B 714
- Azimut-Benetti SpA v Healey [2010] EWHC 2234 (Comm); [2011] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 473
- Bank of Boston Connecticut v European Grain & Shipping Ltd, The Dominique [1989] AC 1056; [1989] 2 WLR 440 HL
- Bank of Nova Scotia v Hellenic Mutual War Risks Association (Bermuda) Ltd, The Good Luck [1992] 1 AC 233; [1991] 2 WLR 1279 HL
- Barber v. Wolfe [1945] Ch. 187
- Bettini v Gye (1876) 1 QBD 183
- Boston Deep Sea Fishing and Ice Co. (1888) 39 Ch. D. 339
- Car and Universal Finance Co Ltd v Caldwell [1965] 1 QB 525; [1964] 2 WLR 600 CA
- Daley v. Peoples Building Association (1879) 12 Ch. D. 666 (1901) 178 Mass. 13
- Dalkia Utilities Plc v Celtech International Ltd [2006] EWHC 63 (Comm); [2006] 1 Lloyd's Rep 599
- Damon Compania Naviera SA v Hapag-Lloyd International SA, The Blankenstein [1985] 1 WLR 435 CA
- Decro-Wall International SA v. Practitioners in Marketing [1971] 2 All E.R. 21
- Federal Commerce and Navigation Ltd v Molena Alpha Inc, The Nanfri, The Benfri and The Lorfri [1979] A.C. 757 HL
- Financings Ltd v. Baldock [1963] 2 Q.B. 104; [1963] 2 W.L.R. 359 CA
- Finelli v Dee (1968) 76 DLR 2nd 393; [1968] 1 O.R. 676 (OCA), Ontario Court of Appeal
- Fortman Holdings Ltd v Modem Holdings [2001] EWCA Civ 1235 CA
- Freeth v Burr (1874) LR 9 CP 208
- Frost v Knight (1872) LR 7 Exch 111
- General Billposting Co Ltd v Atkinson [1909] AC 118 HL
- Glolite Ltd v Jasper Conran Ltd (1998) 28 January, The Times
- Heyman v Darwins Ltd [1942] AC 356 HL
- Hochster v. De La Tour (1853) 2 E. & B. 678
- Horsler v. Zorro [1975] Ch. 302
- Hounslow London Borough Council v Twickenham Garden Developments Ltd [1971] Ch 233; [1970] 3 WLR 538
- Hughes v. Metropolitan Railway Co. (1877) 2 App.Cas. 439
- Hurst v Bryk [2002] 1 AC 185; [2000] 2 WLR 740 HL
- Johnson v. Agnew [1980] A.C. 367 HL
- LG Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd [1974] AC 235; [1973] 2 WLR 683 HL
- Lombard North Central Ltd. v. Butterworth [1987] Q.B. 527; [1987] 2 W.L.R. 7 CA
- Mardorf Peach & Co Ltd v Attica Sea Carriers Corp of Liberia (The Laconia) [1977] A.C. 850; [1977] 2 W.L.R. 286 HL
- McDonald v Dennys Lascelles Ltd (1933) 48 C.L.R. 457
- Motor Oil Hellas (Corinth) Refineries S.A. v. Shipping Corporation of India (The “Kanchenjunga”) [1990] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 391
- MP-Bilt Pte Ltd v Oey Widarto [1999] 3 SLR 592, High Court of Singapore
- National Power plc v United Gas Company Ltd Unreported 3rd July 1998
- Peyman v Lanjani [1985] Ch 457; [1985] 2 WLR 154 CA
- Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Ltd [1980] A.C. 827; [1980] 2 W.L.R. 283 HL
- Premium Nafta Products Limited v Fili Shipping Company Limited [2007] UKHL 40 HL
- Rowland v Divall [1923] 2 KB 500 CA
- Scandanavian Trading Tanker Co. AB v Flota Petrolera Ecuatoriana, The Scraptrade [1983] 2 All E.R. 763 HL
- Shindler v Northern Raincoat Co Ltd [1960] 1 WLR 1038
- Spettabile Consorzio Veneziano di Armamento e Navigazione v Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd (1919) 121 LT 628
- Stocznia Gdanska SA v Latvian Shipping Co [2002] EWCA Civ 889; [2001] 1 Lloyd's Rep 537; [2002] 2 Lloyd's Rep 436 CA
- Stocznia Gdynia SA v Gearbulk Holdings Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 75, [2010] Q.B. 27; [2009] 3 WLR 677 CA
- Union Eagle Ltd v Golden Achievement Ltd [1997] A.C. 514; [1997] 2 W.L.R. 341 PC
- United Dominions Trust (Commercial) Ltd v Ennis [1968] 1 QB 54 CA
- Universal Cargo Carriers Corporation v. Citati [1957] 2 QB 401; [1957] 2 W.L.R. 713
- Vitol SA v Norelf Ltd [1996] AC 800; [1996] 1 WLR 65 HL
- White & Carter (Councils) Ltd v McGregor [1962] AC 413; [1962] 2 WLR 17 HL
- Woodar Investment Development Limited v. Wimpey Construction (UK) Ltd [1980] 1 WLR 277 HL
