Tag: termination

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08 September 2016

Court of Appeal finds innocent party could not affirm contract following repudiatory breach where defaulting party unable (not just unwilling) to perform

The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision that a party was not entitled to keep a contract alive for the purpose of claiming ongoing liquidated damages …

03 May 2016

Contractual requirement to give notice calling for breach to be remedied did not apply to termination for repudiatory breach

The High Court has found that a notice requirement within a contractual termination clause did not apply where a party terminated at common law following …

20 August 2015

High Court finds multi-party LLP agreements cannot be terminated for repudiatory breach

In a case that will be of interest to those in the fund management industry and all other areas of business in which corporate structures regularly …

30 April 2015

Good faith principles applied to question of whether innocent party could keep contract alive following repudiatory breach

The High Court has held that a party was not entitled to keep a contract alive indefinitely for the purpose of claiming ongoing liquidated damages for …

23 June 2014

Court of Appeal finds deliberate non-payment did not justify termination

In a recent decision, the Court of Appeal held that the deliberate withholding of payments due under a contract, in circumstances where the counterparty …

20 June 2013

Court of Appeal confirms high threshold for delay in performance to be repudiatory

The Court of Appeal recently held that a developer's delay in carrying out works did not amount to a repudiatory breach of an agreement for lease: …