Module 04 - Certainty and mistake
Topics
- Introduction - Certainty
- Summary of relevant principles
- Intention to contract
- Essential term missing
- Terms too vague
- Parties act consistently with a binding contract
- Subject to contract
- Agreement to agree
- Negotiation in Good Faith
- Categories of Mistake
- Unilateral mistake
- The role of estoppel
- The role of fault
- Mutual mistake
- Common Assumption
- No warranty that the state of affairs exists
- No fault on the part of a party
- Performance impossible
- Essential state of affairs or attribute of the consideration
- Mistakes in Equity
- Mistakes as to Identity
- Mistake as to identity or as to attributes?
- Mistake as to Identity
- Mistake as to Identity - Face-to face cases
- Mistake as to Identity - Written contract cases
- Non est factum
Cases
- Associated Japanese Bank Ltd v Credit du Nord SA [1988] 3 All ER 902
- Barbudev v Eurocom Cable Management Bulgaria Eood [2012] EWCA Civ 548; [2012] 2 All E.R. (Comm) 963 CA
- Bell v Lever Brothers Ltd [1932] AC 161 HL
- Blakeley v Muller & Co (1903) 19 TLR 186, DC
- Boulton v Jones (1857) 27 LJ Ex 117
- British Electrical Industries Ltd v Pateley Pressings Ltd [1953] 1 WLR 280
- Centrovincial Estates plc v Merchant Investors Assurance Company Ltd [1983] Com LR 158 CA
- Channel Home Centres, Division of Grace Retail Corporation v Grossman (1986) 795 F. 2nd 291
- Chillingworth v Esche [1924] 1 Ch 97 CA
- Cie Noga d’Importation et d’Exportation SA v Abacha (No 2) [2003] EWCA Civ 1100; [2003] 2 All ER (Comm) 915 CA
- Cooper v Phibbs (1867) L.R. 2 H.L. 149
- Courtney and Fairbairn Ltd v Tolaini Brothers (Hotels) Ltd [1975] 1 WLR 297, 301 CA
- Couturier v Hastie (1856) 5 HLC 673; 10 ER 1065 HL
- Cundy v Lindsay (1878) 3 App Cas 459 HL
- Edmunds v Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co 135 Mass 283
- Foley v Classique Coaches [1934] 2 KB 1
- Frederick E. Rose (London) Ltd v William H Pim Jnr. & Co Ltd [1953] 2 QB 450 CA
- G. Percy Trentham v Archital Luxfer Ltd [1993] 1 Lloyds Rep 25
- G. Scammell & Nephew Ltd v Ouston [1941] AC 251 HL
- Gallie v Lee [1971] AC 1004 HL
- Great Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd (“The Great Peace”) [2003] QB 679 CA
- Griffith v Brymer (1903) 19 T.L.R. 434
- Hartog v Colin & Shields [1939] 3 All ER 566
- Hillas & Co Ltd v Arcos Ltd (1932) 147 LT 503 HL
- Hussey v. Horne-Payne (1878) 2 App Cas 311 HL
- Ingram v Little [1961] 1 QB 31 CA
- King's Norton Metal Co Ltd v Edridge, Merrett & Co Ltd (1897) 14 TLR 98 CA
- Krell v Henry [1903] 2 KB 740 CA
- Lewis v Averay [1972] 1 QB 198 CA
- Love & Stewart Ltd v S. Instone & Co (1917) 33 TLR 475
- May & Butcher v R [1934] 2 KB 17 HL (note)
- McRae v The Commonwealth Disposals Commission (1951) 84 CLR 377, High Court of Australia
- Pagnan SpA v. Feed Products Ltd [1987] 2 Lloyds Rep 601
- Petromec Inc v Petroleo Brasileiro SA Petrobras (No.3) [2005] EWCA Civ 891; [2006] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 121 CA
- Phillips v Brooks Ltd [1919] 2 KB 243
- Raffles v Wichelhaus (1864) 2 Hurl & C 906
- Roberts & Co Ltd v Leicestershire County Council [1961] Ch 555; [1961] 2 WLR 1000
- RTS Flexible Systems Ltd v Molkerei Alois Muller GmbH & Co KG [2010] UKSC 14; [2010] 1 W.L.R. 753 SC
- Sherrington v Berwin Leighton Paisner [2006] EWCA Civ 1319 CA
- Shogun Finance Ltd v Hudson [2004] 1 AC 919 HL
- Smith v Hughes (1871) LR 6 QB 597
- Solle v Butcher [1950] 1 KB 671 CA
- Tamplin v James (1880) 15 Ch D 215 CA
- The Hannah Blumenthal [1983] 1 All ER 34 HL
- Von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg v Alexander [1912] 1 Ch 284
- Walford v Miles [1992] 2 AC 128, 138; [1992] 2 WLR 174 HL
