The customer signed a hire-purchase contract and obtained confirmation of the leasing company’s agreement by telephone. She took delivery of the car, and sold it on immediately, and before the contract was signed by the finance company six days later. It was held that the company had completed the contract in the telephone call, and the signing was by way of confirmation. This was so particularly where the contract did not provide that it could only be created on the signing.
Judges:
Peter Gibson, Mummery, Rix LJJ
Citations:
Times 13-Mar-2001, [2001] EWCA Civ 359
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Consumer, Contract
Updated: 19 May 2022; Ref: scu.81398