Module 20 - Frustration
Topics
- Introduction
- Impossibility of performance
- A different venture
- The Coronation Cases
- Unforeseen difficulty in performance
- The Suez Cases
- A special rule for leases of land?
- Self-induced frustration
- Modern requirements for frustration
- Burden of proof
- The effect of frustration
- Contractual provisions dealing with supervening events
- Construction of clauses purporting to avoid frustration
- Terms impliedly avoiding frustration
- Force Majeure Clauses - anatomy
- Construction of Force Majeure Clauses
- Words and phrases in Force Majeure Clauses
- Force Majeure clauses and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
