The court heard an appeal from an order upholding an award made by the Board of Appeal of the Grain and Feed Trade Association concerning the effect of the Prohibition clause in the GAFTA standard form of contract for delivery on f.o.b. terms of goods from Central and Eastern Europe in bulk or bags, generally known as Gafta 49.
Held: The sellers abandoned their arguments on mitigation. On the remaining issues, the Court affirmed the decision below.
Moore-Bick, Floyd, Chrisopher Clarke LJJ
[2013] EWCA Civ 1628, [2014] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 404
Bailii
England and Wales
Citing:
Appeal from – Bunge Sa v Nidera Bv ComC 29-Jan-2013
The Court was asked: ‘2.1 Is the application of the GAFTA prohibition clause limited to a case where it can be seen after the event that performance of the contract has in fact been prevented by the prohibition in question?
2.2. Does the GAFTA . .
Cited by:
Appeal from – Bunge Sa v Nidera Bv SC 1-Jul-2015
The court considered the effect of the default clause in a standard form of contract which is widely used in the grain trade. On 10 June 2010 the respondents, Nidera BV, whom I shall call ‘the buyers’, entered into a contract with the appellants, . .
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Updated: 17 July 2021; Ref: scu.518934
