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Beswick v Beswick [1967] UKHL 2, [1968] AC 58 was a landmark English contract law case on privity of contract and specific performance.The House of Lords, overruling the decision of Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal, ruled that a person who was not party to a contract had no independent standing to sue to enforce it, even if the contract was clearly intended for their benefit.
Although damages are the usual remedy for the breach of a contract for the benefit of a third party, if damages are inadequate, specific performance may be granted (Beswick v. Beswick [1968] AC 59). The issue of third-party beneficiaries has appeared in cases where a stevedore has claimed it is covered under the exclusion clauses in a bill of ...
Suisse Atlantique Societe d'Armament SA v NV Rotterdamsche Kolen Centrale [1967] 1 A.C. 361; Boardman v Phipps [1967] 2 AC 46; Vandervell v IRC [1967] 2 AC 291; Beswick v Beswick [1968] AC 58; C Czarnikow Ltd v Koufos or The Heron II [1969] 1 AC 350; In re Gulbenkian's Settlements [1970] AC 508; Pettitt v. Pettitt [1970] A.C. 777
Two local political scientists old enough to remember 1968 — Cal Jillson of Southern Methodist University and Jim Riddlesperger of TCU — both pointed to one obvious difference with 2024.
Elections to Manchester City Council were held on Thursday, 9 May 1968. One third of the councillors seats were up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a three-year term of office. The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council. [1] [2]
This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 election.After winning the Democratic presidential nomination at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey asked the convention to nominate Maine Senator Edmund Muskie as his running mate.
The election on November 5, 1968, proved to be extremely close, and it was not until the following morning that the television news networks were able to declare Nixon the winner. The key states proved to be California, Ohio, and Illinois, all of which Nixon won by three percentage points or less.
Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick, PC (21 August 1911 – 17 August 1987) was a British Labour Co-operative politician. Born in 1911 in Nottingham, [1] Beswick's father was a coal miner. He was educated in Nottingham and then at the Working Men's College in London. [1] He became a journalist and was elected to the London County Council. [1]