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Key Contract Law Cases and Principles

CONTRACT CASES : OFFER Gibson v Manchester City Council [1979] 1 All ER 972 Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists (Southern) Ltd [1953] 1 QB 401 Fisher v Bell [1961] 1 QB 394 Partridge v Crittenden [1968] 2 All ER 421 Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co Ltd [1892] 2 QB 484 Lefkowitz v Great Minneapolis Surplus Store [1957] 86 NW 2d 689 Barry v Davies (Heathcote Ball & Co) [2001] 1 All ER 944 Spencer v Harding [1870] LR 5 CP 561 ACCEPTANCE Hyde v Wrench [1840] 3 Beav 334 Stevenson, Jaques & Co v McLean [1880] 5 QBD 346 Butler Machine Tool Co v Ex-Cell-O Corporation (England) Ltd [1979] 1 WLR 401 Tekdata Interconnections v Amphenol [2009] EWCA Civ 1209 RTS Flexible Systems Ltd v Molkerei Alois Müller Gmbh & Company KG [2010] UKSC 14 British Steel Corp v Cleveland Bridge & Engr. Co Ltd [1984] 1 All ER 504 Felthouse v Bindley [1862] 11 CBNS 869 Brogden v Metropolitan Railway [1877] 2 App Cas 666 PROBLEMS IN OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE Adams v Lindsell [1818] 1 B & Ald 681 Henthorn v Fraser [1892] 2 Ch 27 Holwell Securities v Hughes [1974] 1 WLR 155 Household Fire and Carriage Accident Insurance Co v Grant [1879] 4 Ex D 216 Payne v Cave [1789] 3 Term Rep 148 Routledge v Grant [1828] 4 Bing 653 Byrne v Van Tienhoven [1880] 5 CPD 344 Dickinson v Dodds [1876] 2 ChD 463 Errington v Errington [1952] 1 All ER 149 Daulia Ltd v Four Millbank Nominees Ltd [1978] Ch 231 Quenerduaine v Cole [1883] 32 WR 185 Mountford & Anor v Scott [1974] 1 All ER 248 INSTANTANEOUS COMMUNICATION Entores v Miles Far East Corporation [1955] 2 QB 327 The Brimnes [1975] QB 929 Brinkibon Ltd v Stahag Stahl [1983] 2 AC 34 Mondial Shipping and Chartering BV v Astate Shipping Ltd [1995] Com LC 1011 Thomas v BPE Solicitors [2010] EWHC 306, especially paras 86-90 Apple Corps Ltd v Apple Computer Inc. [2004] EWHC 768 Greenclose Ltd v National Westminster Bank Plc [2014] EWHC 1156 (Ch) Holwell Securities v Hughes [1974] 1 WLR 155 CONSIDERATION Currie v Misa [1875] LR 10 Ex 153 Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. Ltd v Selfridges & Co Ltd [1915] AC 847 Chappell & Co v Nestlé Co Ltd [1960] AC 87 Re McArdle [1951] 1 ALL ER 905 Pao On v Lau Yiu Long [1980] AC 614 Shadwell v Shadwell [1860] 9 CB 59 Glasbrook Bros v Glamorgan CC [1925] AC 270 Stilk v Myrick [1809] 2 Camp 317 Williams v Roffey Bros [1990] 1 All ER 512 Re Selectmove [1995] 2 All ER 534 Simantob v Shavleyan [2019] EWCA Civ 1105 VARIATION OF CONTACTS, PART- PAYMENT, ABSENCE OF CONSIDERATION AND PROMISSORY ESTOPPEL Pinnel's Case [1602] 5 Co Rep 117a Foakes v Beer [1884] 9 AC 605 Re Selectmove [1995] 2 All ER 534 MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd v Rock Advertising Ltd [2017] QB 604 Rock Advertising Ltd v MWB Business