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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.
Beswick v Beswick [1966] Ch 538, Denning allows a poor widow to reclaim the assets of her late husband when it was taken from her husband's nephew (disapproved in [1968] AC 58). Morris v CW Martin & Sons Ltd [1966] 1 QB 716; Wheat v E Lacon & Co Ltd [1966] 1 All ER 582; defines "occupier" for the purposes of Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 ...
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 ...
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".
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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
The act came into law on 11 November 1999 when it received royal assent, [2] but the full provisions of the act did not come into force until May 2000. [54] The act made clear that contracts negotiated during a six-month "twilight period" after the act's passage fell under its provisions if they included language saying that they had been made ...
Scruttons Ltd v Midland Silicones Ltd [1961] UKHL 4, [1962] AC 446 [1] is a leading House of Lords case on privity of contract. It was a test case in which it was sought to establish a basis upon which stevedores could claim the protection of exceptions and limitations contained in a bill of lading contract to which they were not party. [ 2 ]