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Company Structure

  • Partnership property belongs to partners: Ponnukon v Jebaratnam
  • Partners only liable if tort the course of partnership business: Lim Kok Koon v Tan Cheng Yew
  • Debts of the company do not beling to the members: Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd

Limitation

  • Cannot exclude personal injury or death: Unfair Contract Terms Act Section 2(1)
  • Only exclude reasonable loss or damage: UCTA Section 2(2)

Factors Affecting Contract

  • Reasonable time lapse for misrepresentation: Leaf v International Galleries
  • Unlikely undue influence if educated: Susilawati v American Express Bank Ltd
  • Void if obvious mistake: Cheww Kin Keong v Digilandmall.com

Termination

  • Frustration if radically different: Krell v Henry
  • No frustration if still possible: Tsakiroglou v Noblee

Damages

  • Damages cannot be remote: Hadley v Baxendale

Liability

  • Goods must correspond with the description: Sale of Goods Act Section 13, Beale v Taylor
  • Goods must be of satisfactory quality: SGA Section 14(2)
  • Goods must be reasonably fit for express/implied purpose: SGA Section 14(3)
  • Section 14(3) only if seller aware of conditions for purpose: Griffiths v Peter Conway Ltd
  • Bulk must correspond with the sample: SGA Section 15
  • Consumer can request a repair/replacement/reduction if breach: Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act

Tort

  • Must have causation: Barnett v Chelsea & Kensington Hospital
  • Contributory negligence: Sayers v Harlow
  • Vicarious liability only in course of employment: Koh Get Kee v Low Beng Hui