Summary Discharge through Performance and Breach

Contract Law Supervision 8: Discharge
through Performance and Breach
Contents
Textbook Reading: McKendrick TCM Chapter 22: Breach of Contract for Termination .... 1
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2
What is a Breach of Contract? ................................................................................................................ 2
The Existence of a Right to Terminate ............................................................................................... 2
A. Breach of a Condition ................................................................................................................... 2
B. Breach of a Warranty ................................................................................................................... 6
C. Breach of an Intermediate Term.............................................................................................. 6
Cases ..................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Universal Cargo Carriers Corporation v Citati [1957] 2 QB 401 ............................................. 9
White and Carter (Councils) Ltd v McGregor [1962] AC 413 ................................................... 9
Hong Kong Fir Shipping Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd [1962] ...................................... 10
Maredelanto Compania Naviera SA v Bergbau – Handel GmbH, THE MIHALIS ANGELOS
[1971] 1 QB 164 ....................................................................................................................................... 12
L Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd [1974] AC 235 ........................................ 13
Cehave NV v Bremer Handelsgellschaft mbH, THE HANSA NORD [1976] QB 44 ......... 14
Bunge Corporation v Tradax Export SA [1981] .......................................................................... 15
Alfred Toepfer International GmbH v Itex Itagrani Export SA [1993] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 360
......................................................................................................................................................................... 16
Yukong Line Ltd of Korea v Rendsburg Investments Corporation of Liberia [1996] 1
Lloyd’s Rep 604 ........................................................................................................................................ 16
Vitol SA v Norelf Ltd (The Santa Clara) [1996] AC 800 ............................................................ 16
BS & N Ltd (BVI) v Micado Shipping Malta (‘The Seaflower’) [2001] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 341
......................................................................................................................................................................... 17
Stocznia Gydnia SA v Gearbulk Holdings Ltd [2009] 3 WLR 677 ......................................... 18




Textbook Reading: McKendrick TCM Chapter 22: Breach of Contract for
Termination
Breach can take different forms: refusal to perform, defective performance, late
performance.

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