Series of cumulative breaches can amount to fundamental breach, and Court of...
GB Gas entered into an agreement with Accenture for Accenture to design, supply, install and maintain a business-critical IT system, including billing. The agreement defined a ‘Fundamental Defect’ as a...
View ArticleLaw Commission consults on new laws to give consumers rights to compensation...
The Law Commission is consulting on new laws that would give consumers the right to claim compensation and redress from businesses for misleading and aggressive selling practices. The Consumer...
View ArticleSupplier must replace faulty goods that consumer installed even if cost of...
The European Union Directive on Certain Aspects of the Sale of Consumer Goods and Guarantees provides for consumers anywhere in the EU to have rights for goods to be repaired or replaced or have money...
View ArticleNetTV decision over liability for deliberate repudiatory breach considered by...
When drafting a contract, parties often attempt to exclude or limit their liability by inserting a particular clause into the contract. Such a clause is known as an exclusion clause. Certain forms of...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal orders rectification of a contract where one party unfairly...
The two parties in this case had negotiated a contract which did not reflect the commercial agreement that had been reached in principle. The contract related to the purchase of council housing by...
View ArticleConsumer Rights Bill published – sweeping laws to replace decades of business...
The Government has published the draft Consumer Rights Bill. The Bill represents the most significant change to business to consumer law in many years. It consolidates lots of legislation into one...
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