Business Law

INTRODUCTION When a contract is discharged, the parties to the agreement are freed from their contractual obligations. A contract i...

Mediation is the process whereby a third party acts as the conduit through which two disputing parties communicate and negotiate, in an...

As a consequence of the disfavour with which the judiciary have looked on exclusion clauses, a number of rules of construction have been de...

It is possible, and common in business contracts, for the parties to an agreement to make provisions for possible breach by stating in ...

Magistrates’ courts have considerable power. In relation to criminal law, they are empowered to try summary cases, that is, cases which...

An exclusion clause cannot be effective unless it is actually a term of a contract. There are three ways in which such a term may be insert...

This Act represents the statutory attempt to control exclusion clauses. In spite of its title, it is really aimed at unfair exemption claus...

The term quantum meruit means that a party should be awarded as much as he had earned, and such an award can be either contractual or q...

The obviously apparent proliferation of tribunals operating under a variety of powers gave rise to the perceived need to investigate th...

The first Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations were enacted in December 1994  They were introduced to implement the Europe...