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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 ...
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".
The first page of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1968 election preview for NBC News. (Chuck Todd) Moynihan begins by noting that after the big GOP gains in the 1966 midterms, he believed the “main ...
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.
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.
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 leading case is Lumley v Wagner, which is an English decision. [ 8 ] Additionally, in England and Wales , under s. 50 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 , the High Court has discretion to award a claimant damages in lieu of specific performance (or an injunction ).