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English private law. Institutions. University College London. University of Oxford. Website. ox.ac.uk. Ewan Gordon McKendrick (born 1960) is Professor of English Private Law at the University of Oxford. He is known for his academic work on the law of contract, as well as publications in the law of unjust enrichment and commercial law.
In Parsonage Lane, Chelsworth, Suffolk, is a residence known as "The Cottage". PHH Asset Management Ltd were undisclosed agents of mortgagees, who were selling The Cottage for £205,000. Mr Pitt and Miss Buckle put in competing bids. Mr Pitt bid £200,000, which PHH accepted 'subject to contract'. Miss Buckle then increased her bid to £210,000.
Hazell v Hammersmith and Fulham LBC [1992] 2 AC 1 is an English administrative law case, which declared that local authorities had no power to engage in interest rate swap agreements because they were beyond the council's borrowing powers, and that all the contracts were void. [1] Their actions were held to contravene the Local Government Act ...
Incorporation. For a written term to be considered incorporated by the courts, it must fulfil three requirements. Firstly, notice of the terms should be given before or during the agreement of the contract. Secondly, the terms must be found in a document intended to be contractual. Thirdly, "reasonable steps" must be taken by the party who ...
E McKendrick, Contract Law (8th edn Palgrave 2009) J Hilliard and J O’Sullivan, The Law of Contract (2nd edn OUP 2006) A Burrows, A Casebook on Contract (2nd edn Hart, Oxford 2009) Jill Poole, Casebook on Contract Law (2006) 8th Ed., Oxford University Press; Ewan McKendrick, Contract Law - Text, Cases and Materials (2005) Oxford University ...
Exclusion clauses and limitation clauses are terms in a contract which seek to restrict the rights of the parties to the contract . Traditionally, the district courts have sought to limit the operation of exclusion clauses. In addition to numerous common law rules limiting their operation, in England and Wales Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999.
The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 ( SI 1999/2083) was a UK statutory instrument, which implemented the EU (then EEC) Unfair Consumer Contract Terms Directive into domestic law. [n 1] It replaced an earlier version of similar regulations, [n 2] and overlaps considerably with the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 .
Privity in English law. Privity is a doctrine in English contract law that covers the relationship between parties to a contract and other parties or agents. At its most basic level, the rule is that a contract can neither give rights to, nor impose obligations on, anyone who is not a party to the original agreement, i.e. a "third party".