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Saturday, 10 June 2017

Business Law Questions: Remedies for Breach of Contract

1. What may an injured party do where the other party fails to perform their part of the          contract?

2.         What is the most common form of remedy for breach of contract (awarded in 95% of      successful cases)?   

3.         When the injured party is awarded financial compensation for breach of contract   what is the purpose of the award?
           
4.         Explain what is meant by causation and how can circumstances sometimes prevail          where an injured party will still not be compensated even where the contract was      clearly breached?

5.         A claimant is required to mitigate loss when claiming damages in contract, what    does that mean?          

6          What are the two rules in Hadley v Baxendale [1854] governing the awarding of    damages for breach of contract?

7.         Wolfgang has ordered a new stamping machine for his metal workshop.  He         explained to the machine tool company he was buying it from that he needed it to       cope with the rise in demand that had happened in the last six months.  The   company salesman said  that indeed there must have been an increase because this        was the third machine that had been ordered.   The machine tool company delivered    the stamping machine 11 weeks late causing Wolfgang to be unable to increase his   production.  Wolfgang is very angry because he has also not been able to get a new            contract with the local shipyard to provide stampings for their tugboats.
            Apply the rules in Hadley v Baxendale to determine what Wolfgang may be able to           sue for.


8.         Norris has booked an adventure holiday to Peru.  The brochure told him that it would        be the experience of a lifetime and that during the two weeks he would climb the         Andes with English speaking mountain guides, that he would see the splendour of     the Inca civilisation and enjoy the night life of Lima.   In the first week the tour             operator organised a bus trip into the foothills of the Andes to an observation point             where they could see the tops of the mountains 20 miles away.  Three days later a    trip was organised to two local museums where they were shown Inca artefacts and shown a film about Incas.  The nightlife of Lima consisted of an early evening             guided walk in the city centre followed by a cabaret at the hotel.

            What can Norris claim for?

9.         Wilbur has enrolled on a course to learn production journalism hoping to get into    magazine writing and photography.  The course advertisement stated that the       training company used only the latest equipment and the highest qualified and   experienced trainers and that as an industry trained journalist they would be qualified        to seek jobs on the most prestigious magazines.   Two weeks into the course Wilbur becomes aware that the company has lost its professional accreditation two month earlier after failing to keep up to date with industry standard software and            that      two of the tutors have never worked as journalists.

            What may Wilbur seek here?  (Refer to the legal authority on the subject)

Other Remedies in Breach of Contract

Damages and recission are legal remedies for breaches of contract, what other remedies may the courts award and how do they differ form the legal variety?

What is meant by the rather quaint notion that he who comes to equity must come with clean hands.

10.       Duston’s Engineering Works have ordered a specially made ultrasonic testing tank to        examine highly specialised jet engine components at their works.  Whizzosound, the           manufacturers have now said that they will not deliver it.  Duston’s need this machine to complete a contract by next month and although there is another             supplier twenty miles away it will take two months to build another machine.

            What might be an appropriate remedy to this breach of contract.

11.       What is the purpose of an injunction?

12.       What types of injunction are available in breach of contract?

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