Module 17 - Liquidated Damages
Topics
- Liquidated Damages
- Introduction
- Distinction between liquidated damages and penalties
- Cuts both ways
- Sums payable otherwise than on breach
- Date for determining whether clause is a penalty
- Burden of proof
- General approach to penalty clauses
- Rules for characterising a clause as a penalty or liquidated damages
- Effect of clause being characterised as a penalty
Cases
- Alder v Moore [1961] 2 QB 57; [1961] 2 WLR 426 CA
- Ariston SRL v. Charly Records Ltd (1990) The Independent 13th April 1990
- Arnhold v. A.G. (1989) Construction Law Journal 263
- Bridge v Campbell Discount Company Ltd [1962] AC 600; [1962] 2 WLR 439 HL
- Cellulose Acetate Silk Co v Widnes Foundry (1925) Ltd [1933] AC 20 HL
- Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. v. Don Jose Ramos Yzquierdo y Castaneda [1905] A.C. 6
- Diestal v Stevenson [1906] 2 KB 345
- Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. Ltd. v New Garage & Motor Co. [1915] A.C. 79 HL
- Elphinstone v. Monkland Iron and Coal Co. 11 App. Cas. 332
- Hadley v. Baxendale (1854) 9 Exch. 341
- Kemble v. Farren 6 Bing. 141
- Law v Local Board of Redditch [1892] 1 QB 127
- Lombard North Central Ltd. v. Butterworth [1987] Q.B. 527 CA
- Oresundsvaret Aktiebolag v Lemos, The Angelic Star [1988] 1 Lloyd's Rep 122 CA
- Philips Hong Kong Ltd v Attorney General of Hong Kong (1993) 61 Build LR 41 PC
- Protector Endowment Loan & Annuity Co v Grice (1880) LR 5 QBD 592 CA
- Public Works Commissioner v. Hills [1906] A.C. 368 and Webster v. Bosanquet [1912] A.C. 394
- Robophone Facilities Ltd. v. Blank [1966] 1 W.L.R. 1428
- The Laconia [1977] AC 850
- Thomas P Gonzales Corp v FR Waring Property (International) Ltd [1980] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 160
- Wall v Rederiaktiebogalet Luggude [1915] 3 KB 66
- Webster v. Bosanquet [1912] A.C 394
- White & Carter (Councils) Ltd v McGregor [1962] AC 413; [1962] 2 WLR 17 HL
