An exclusion clause is a term in a contract purporting to exclude or restrict the liability of one or more parties to the contract for breach of obligation . Exclusion clauses are controlled by common law and statute. The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 (UCTA 1977) and the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (UTCCR 1999) confine the extent to which an individual can exclude or limit his business liability towards consumers. The Office of Fair Trading runs an unfair terms unit which
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DISCUSS THE ISSUE OF FINALITY OF DECISIONS MADE BY ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNALS IN EXERCISE OF THEIR JUDICIAL FUNCTIONS. AUTHOR: KATALILO JOY INTRODUCTION This paper is aimed at discussing the finality of decisions made by administrative tribunals in exercise of their judicial functions. The discussion will focus on the case R v Medical Appeals Tribunal Ex Parte Gilmore and other cases. Governments exist to provide guidance to its people. In fulfilling
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A. Concern v Good The incident between Mr. Good and Mr. Concern is being introduced in this case. Mr. Good put up an article on The Best Daily saying that he would share half of the advertising cost for anyone who places an advertisement in Best Daily with the intention of ‘initiating major legal response to raise climate change consciousness of the people of Hong Kong’. Our client‚ Mr. Concern who responded to Mr. Good’s offer‚ placed advertisements in 15 newspapers expressing ‘support for social
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Misrepresentation Step 1. Determine whether the meaning of the representation is false or not – objective test Step 2. Three possibilities of a misrepresentation: 1) It is a term of the contract; 2) It constitutes a collateral contract; 3) Does not acquire contractual status at all. Step 3. Results: 1) Rescission of the contract; 2) Damages in tort (if the tort of deceit or the tort of negligence can be made out) Smith v Lane & House Property Corp This case deals with the situation that a statement
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terminate the contract. In relation to this case‚ the offer and acceptance‚ thus the making of agreement‚ has been established. Offer‚ is when an offeror offers anything to the offeree‚ then the offeree makes an agreement through acceptance‚ which then forms and agreement‚ thus where the offer and acceptance is being applied. In light to this question‚ it will be tackled on how David will deal with these offerees and their respective parties‚ which will be discussed mainly on how the contract is made
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Electronic contracts & the Indian law This document is an extract from the book Ecommerce - Legal Issues authored by Rohas Nagpal. This book is available as courseware for the Diploma in Cyber Law and PG Program in Cyber Law conducted by Asian School of Cyber Laws www.asianlaws.org Ecommerce - Legal Issues 4. Electronic Contracts Contracts have become so common in daily life that most of the time we do not even realize that we have entered
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Introduction To Contract Law: A contract is ’a promise or set of promises which the law will enforce’ (Pollock Principles of Contract (13th Edn) 1). The expression ’contract’ may‚ however‚ be used to describe any or all of the following: 1. that series of promises or acts themselves constituting the contract; 2. the document or documents constituting or evidencing that series of promises or acts‚ or their performance; 3. the legal relations resulting from that series. A contract may be defined
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Jan 2009 a V and P entered a standard form contract for sale of property in SYD‚ with special condition that the “sale is subject to P completing the sale of his existing home in Brisbane by 1 June 2009” but no time for completion is specified and clause 29 of 2005 Standard Form is deleted. (Standard Form: completed with in 42 days of existing contract/ exchange of contract? Hence the qtn scenario means it’ll be deleted.) Is there a binding contract for SYD before this BNE condition is fulfilled
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Mutual Mistakes in Contract Law 4-3 Mutual Mistakes in Contract Law Southern New Hampshire University Abstract In contractual law‚ a mutual mistake is: “Where a mistake of both parties at the time of contract was made as to a basic assumption on which the contract was made has a material effect on the agreed exchange of performances‚ the contract is voidable by the adversely affected party unless he bears the risk of the mistake under the rule stated in 154.” (Rasmusen‚ 1993) 4-3
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ASPECTS OF CONTRACT LAW 1) A contract by definition is a form of agreement that binds two or more parties who can involve in a legal relationship and will be bound to perform according to the terms and conditions that are agreed upon in the contract. 2) The essential elements of a contract are: Agreement: it is determined by the regulations of offer and acceptance. It is the most essential element and the very first one. An agreement is made when the offerer proposes his offer and the offerree
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