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Court of Appeal Upholds Contract With Open Price Clause

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The English Court of Appeal’s judgment in KSY Juice Blends UK Ltd v. Citrosuco GmbH provides helpful guidance on the enforceability of long-term supply contracts where the price for part of the goods is left open to be agreed...more

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Court Decides Lessees Failure to Engage Wont Fly

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The High Court has delivered a decision in AWAS Netherlands A320-1 BV v Pacific Airlines Aviation Joint Stock Company in relation to an amount of lease rental and other damages Pacific Airlines (the Defendant) owed AWAS (the...more

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English Court of Appeal Rules on "Loss of Anticipated Profits" Exclusion Clause

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The Court of Appeal recently considered whether a clause excluding claims for "loss of anticipated profits" prevented the claimant from bringing a claim for loss-of-profit damages stemming from an alleged breach of contract....more

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Disputes 101 – What can’t you agree to do in your contract?

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Beware of a penalty shoot-out - The rule against penalties is rooted in public policy, aiming to prevent contractual provisions that punish the breaching party rather than protecting the interests of the innocent party. The...more

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Court of Appeal Split on Scope of Exclusion Clause

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In EE Ltd v. Virgin Mobile Telecoms Ltd, the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court’s decision that EE’s claim against Virgin was excluded under the terms of the parties’ telecommunications supply agreement. While the decision...more

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The Misrepresentation of Moths – Lessons from a Yarn

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It is the stuff of nightmares. Dr Yevhen Hunyak, described by the Judge in the case as "a cautious person", and Iya Patarkatsishivili were careful to visit their prospective home more than half a dozen times between Spring...more

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Maritime misadventure: the case of the nominal damages

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Where two vessels were returned late by a charterer, only nominal damages were recoverable, since even if the vessels had been returned on time, the owners could not have chartered them out owing to obligations under...more

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Costs order or damages: how should costs of anti-suit and anti-enforcement injunctions be recovered?

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In an unusual approach to cost recovery, Airbus has successfully applied for an order that costs incurred in proceedings before the English courts for final anti-suit and anti-enforcement injunctions be reserved so that it...more

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Breach it and weep: deemed fulfilment ain’t fictional

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The Court of Appeal has held that a party who prevents a condition precedent to their obligation to pay from being met cannot rely on the unfulfilled condition to escape their liability in debt....more

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Should Successful Hedging of Potential Losses Reduce Claimant’s Damages?

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In Rhine Shipping DMCC v. Vitol SA, the Commercial Court of England and Wales determined that the claimant’s internal risk management system, by which the risk of loss arising from physical trades was ‘hedged’ against...more

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Complex Commercial Litigation Law Review - Fifth Edition - England & Wales

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The courts of England are some of the most established fora for dealing with complex commercial litigation. The Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) that apply to English civil litigation, which govern every aspect of cases from...more

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General damages for delay: capped, or uncapped?

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Does a liquidated damages clause which has been found to be void and / or unenforceable nevertheless operate to limit a contractor's liability for general damages for delay? This issue was decided in two recent cases – one...more

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When Can You Argue Mitigation? CAT Rejects Supplier Mitigation Defence and Issues Guidance for Scope of Supplier Mitigation

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A Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) judgment recently obtained by Royal Mail and BT has wide-ranging implications, not only for all competition follow-on damages claims but also many other forms of commercial damages claims....more

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No damages if proven breach is not an effective cause of loss: “bitter truth” for innocent parties

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In determining whether a breach of contract operates as an effective cause of the loss claimed, the court must apply “common sense”. Although there is a “moral asymmetry” where one party is at fault and the other an innocent...more

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Loss of profit recoverable in terminated DBO procurement

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Can a breach of one contract give rise to liability for lost profit on a related contract? Or is the loss too "remote"? A Privy Council decision from Monday of this week addressed this issue in the context of a design, build,...more

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Termination & Liquidated Damages: Less Clear than Ever

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The Court of Appeal of England & Wales considered, in respect of a delayed software project, whether a liquidated damages provision survived termination of the contract....more

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Supreme Court takes expansive view of English court jurisdiction for tort claims

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The Supreme Court has considered the meaning of the word “damage” in the tort jurisdiction gateway contained in the Civil Procedure Rules, which permits service of English proceedings in tort on a defendant abroad where...more

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A Cautionary Tale: English Courts Further Depart from a Traditional Approach to Liquidated Damages in Unaoil v Leighton

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In September 2014, the Commercial Court handed down an unprecedented decision, finding that a liquidated damages ("LD") clause in a contract was a "genuine pre-estimate of loss" at the time the parties entered into the...more

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UK Capital Maintenance Principle May Restrict Damages Awards

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Obiter dicta by High Court suggests that damages may not be available as a remedy where an English company breaches a contractual obligation and performance of that obligation would have required a breach of the "capital...more

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