Legal case news extra effort insufficient for extrication from contract, Extra MSA Services Cobham v Accor UK Economy Hotels
Gordon, Warren
Legal case news extra effort insufficient for extrication from contract, Extra MSA Services Cobham v Accor UK Economy Hotels - 2011 - Property Week 77(18) 6 May 2011, 57(1) .
[2011] EWHC 775 (Ch), 17 March 2011. Considers the important commercial issue of whether a party to a conditional agreement can exercise a right to terminate the agreement because the condition has not been satisfied although the same party was responsible for the failure to satisfy the condition. Applicant commercial developer E tried to extricate itself from a contract agreed with defendant A on the basis that a condition was not satisfied. A contended that E should not benefit from non-compliance with its contractual obligation. "Held": Application refused. HC decided that a party should not benefit from its own wrongdoing.
EXTRA MSA SERVICES COBHAM LTD; EXTRA MSA COBHAM LIMITED v ACCOR UK ECONOMY HOTELS LTD; ACCOR SA
England and Wales--1543-
Legal case news extra effort insufficient for extrication from contract, Extra MSA Services Cobham v Accor UK Economy Hotels - 2011 - Property Week 77(18) 6 May 2011, 57(1) .
[2011] EWHC 775 (Ch), 17 March 2011. Considers the important commercial issue of whether a party to a conditional agreement can exercise a right to terminate the agreement because the condition has not been satisfied although the same party was responsible for the failure to satisfy the condition. Applicant commercial developer E tried to extricate itself from a contract agreed with defendant A on the basis that a condition was not satisfied. A contended that E should not benefit from non-compliance with its contractual obligation. "Held": Application refused. HC decided that a party should not benefit from its own wrongdoing.
EXTRA MSA SERVICES COBHAM LTD; EXTRA MSA COBHAM LIMITED v ACCOR UK ECONOMY HOTELS LTD; ACCOR SA
England and Wales--1543-