The court rejected a claim for frustration. Numerous authorities showed that the fact that a supplier chose not to make goods available for shipment, thus rendering performance by the seller impossible, was not of itself sufficient to frustrate a contract for sale.
Judges:
Lord Justice Moore-Bick
Citations:
[2008] EWCA Civ 856, [2008] Bus LR 1729
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Gold Group Properties Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd TCC 3-Mar-2010
The parties had contracted for the construction of an estate of houses and flats to be followed by the interim purchase by the defendants. The defendants argued that the slump in land prices frustrated the contract and that they should not be called . .
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Updated: 17 July 2022; Ref: scu.270926