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Contents Of Contracts Interpretation Consumer Rights Implied Terms Notes

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Contract Law Notes

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Chen-Wishart 5

A – What are Terms? 6

1/ Express terms 6

a/ The parole evidence rule 6

b/ Collateral terms and collateral contracts 7

c/ Incorporation of terms 7

2/ Implied Terms 7

a/ Terms implied in Fact 8

b/ Terms implied in law 8

B – What do the terms mean? (Interpretation) 9

C – Interpretation of exclusion clauses 10

1/ Fundamental Breach 10

2/ Contra proferentem 11

|NOTE Peel, “Whither Contra Proferentem?” in Contract Terms (eds Burrows and Peel, 2007) 53 11

3/ Limitation-exclusion distinction 11

4/ Exemptions of negligence liability 11

5/ Exemptions for indirect and consequential loss 12

I - Interpretation 12

|*Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society [1998] 1 WLR 896, 912-913 (Lord Hoffmann) 12

|*Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd [2009] UKHL 38 13

|*Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36, [2015] 2 WLR 1593 esp [14]-[23] 14

*Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24 14

|Lord Nicholls, “My Kingdom for a Horse: The Meaning of Words” (2005) 121 LQR 577 14

|Leggatt, “Making sense of contracts: the rational choice theory”(2015) LQR 454 15

|McLaughlin, “A better way of making sense of contracts?” (2016) LQR 577. 16

|Lord Sumption, “A Question of Taste: The Supreme Court and the Interpretation of Contracts” 16

II - Implied Terms 17

|Collins, “Implied Terms: The Foundation in Good Faith and Fair Dealing” (2014) 67 Current Legal Problems 297 17

A/ Terms implied by Statute in Sale of Goods Contracts 17

1/ Non-Consumer Contracts 17

|*Sale of Goods Act 1979, ss 12-15A; 17

2/ Consumer Contracts 18

|*Consumer Rights Act 2015 ss 1 – 3, 5, 9 – 16, 18 (goods contracts); ss 49, *50, 51 – 57 (services contracts) s. 59. 18

B/Terms Implied by Custom 18

|Hutton v Warren (1836) 18

C/ Terms implied by the court 18

1/ Terms implied in Fact 18

|*The Moorcock (1889) 14 PD 64 18

|*Attorney General of Belize v Belize Telecom Ltd [2009] UKPC 10 [16]-[27] 19

|*Marks and Spencer v BNP Parisbas [2015] UKSC 72, [2015] 3 WLR 1843 20

2/ Terms implied in Law 20

|*Liverpool CC v Irwin [1977] AC 239 20

|Scally v Southern Health & Social Services Bd [1991] 4 All ER 563 21

|Peden, Policy Concerns Behind Implication of Terms in Law (2001) 117 LQR 459 21

3/ Implied Duty of Good Faith? 22

a/ Foundation Case: Yam Seng v International Trade Corp 22

|Yam Seng Pte Ltd v International Trade Corp Ltd[2013] EWHC 111 (QB) NB [123]-[153] on implied term of good faith, [186]-[192] on reliance damages 22

|NOTE Whittaker (2013) 24

b/ What is the scope of Yam Seng? 24

|Collins, 2014 24

|Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust v Compass Group UK and Ireland Ltd (t/a Medirest) [2013] EWCA Civ 200 [77]-[92] 25

|Hamsard v Boots (2013, Norris J) 25

|Cohen, "Pre-Contractual Duties: Two Freedoms and the Contract to Negotiate" in Good Faith and Fault in Contract Law, ed. Beatson & Friedman, p.25 25

III - Exemption Clauses 29

|Atiyah, Introduction to Contract Law pp. 149-154 (2006) 29

A – Incorporation 30

|Cartwright, Unequal Bargaining, pp. 37-51 30

1/ Signature 30

|*L’ Estrange v Graucob [1934] 2 KB 394 30

|*Curtis v Chemical Cleaning Co [1951] 1 KB 805 31

|Spencer, “Signature, Consent, and the Rule in L’Estrange v Graucob” (1973) 32

|Tilden v Clendinning (1978, CoA of Ontario) 32

|Atiyah (1986) 32

2/ Notice 32

a/ Notice must be given at or before time of contracting. 32

|*Olley v Marlborough Court Ltd [1949] 1 KB 532 32

|*Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking [1971] 2 QB 163 32

b/ The terms must be contained or referred to in a document intended to have contractual effect 33

|*Chapelton v Barry UDC [1940] 1 KB 532 33

c/ Reasonable steps to bring the terms to the attnetion of the other party 33

|Parker v South East Railway Co (1877) 2 CPD 416 33

|*Interfoto Picture Library v Stiletto Visual Programmes [1988] 1 All ER 348 33

3/ Course of dealing 35

|*McCutcheon v MacBrayne [1964] 1 All ER 430 35

|Hollier v Rambler Motors [1972] 2 QB 71 36

|British Crane Hire v Ipswich Plant Hire [1975] QB 303 36

B – Construction 36

|Hollier v Rambler Motors 36

|*Photo Productions v Securicor [1980] 1 All ER 556 37

|*Ailsa Craig Fishing v Malvern Fishing [1983] 1 WLR 964 37

|*George Mitchell v Finney Lock Seeds [1983] 2 All ER 737 37

Transocean Drilling UK Ltd v Providence Resources Plc [2016] EWCA Civ 372 38

IV - Legislative control of exemption clauses and unfair terms 38

A - Non-consumer contracts 39

1/ UCTA 39

|*Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ss 1 – 3, 6 - 7, 11 and 13; Schs 1&2 (as amended by the Consumer Rights Act 2015) 39

2/ Illustrative Cases 43

|Phillips Products v Hyland [1987] 2 All ER 620 43

|NOTE Adams and Brownsword, “The Unfair Contract Terms Act: A Decade of Discretion” (1988) 104 LQR 94 44

|Thompson v Lohan (Plant Hire) Ltd [1987] 2 All ER 631 46

3/ The nature of exclusion clauses 47

|*Smith v Eric Bush [1989] 2 All ER 514 47

|Stewart Gill v Horatio Myer [1992] 2 QB 600 47

|*St Albans DC v International Computers [1996] 4 All ER 481 48

|Watford Electronics Ltd v Sanderson CFL Ltd [2001] All ER (Comm) 696 48

|Beale, “Exclusion and Limitation Clauses in Business Contracts: Transparancy” in Contract Terms (eds Burrows and Peel, 2007) 191 49

B - Consumer contracts 50

*Directive on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts (93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993, OJ L95/29) 50

|*Consumer Rights Act 2015 ss 31, 57, 61 – 71, 73, 75 – 76; Sched.2 50

|Bright, “Unfairness and the Consumer Contract Regulations” in Contract Terms (eds Burrows and Peel, 2007) 173 56

|Bright,“Winning the Battle Against Unfair Terms” (2000) 20 LS 331 57

|*The Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National Plc and 7 Others [2009] UKSC 6, [2009] 3 WLR 1215 58

|NOTE Chen-Wishart (2010) 126 LQR 157 58

*Aziz v Caixa d’Estalvis de Catalunya, Tarragona i Manresa of 14 March 2013 (C-415/11) 59

*Kásler v OTP Jelzálogbank Zrt of 30 April 2014 (C-26/13) 59

*ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis [2015] UKSC 67, [2015] 3 WLR 1373 59

V - Commentary 59

Micklitz and Reich, “The Court and Sleeping Beauty: the Revival of the Unfair Contract Terms Directive...

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