Showing posts with label Contract Law: History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contract Law: History. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Time as Essence in Construction Contracts: Need for a Comprehensive Relook

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The issue of time as essence in construction contracts is controversial and is frequently litigated. The law on the subject is largely unsat...
Monday, December 24, 2018

Digital Archives of the Parliament Library & Why Law Univs Must Focus on Researching This

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Recently, the Parliament of India has made public its archives in digitised format in the form of a separate page called Parliament Digita...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Retrospective Operation of the Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018

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As stated in several previous posts in this blog, the Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018 (“2018 Act”) brings several substantive change...
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Friday, October 5, 2018

Liquidated Damages under Indian Contract Law between 1872 & 1899

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On 29 September 2018, we did a brief article review of S. Swaminathan’s erudite paper in the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law ( link -s...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018 Brought into Force from 1 October

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We had done several posts on the Specific Relief (Amendment) Bill, 2018 and later Act.  See this post for a compilation of the past posts...
Thursday, July 5, 2018

Part II: Party Autonomy and NOM Clause in the UK SC: Rock Advertising v MWB Business Exchange

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In the previous post we discussed the majority opinion of the UK Supreme Court on whether an agreement could be amended orally despite a ...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Specific Performance v Substituted Performance: Critique of the Proposed Amendments to Specific Relief Act

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So far, we've had about five posts on the Specific Relief (Amendment) Bill, 2018  (pdf) providing a virtually unbridled right to speci...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Download the Expert Committee Report on Amendments to the Specific Relief Act

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Followers of this blog are well-aware that the recent Expert Committee Report on the Amendments to the Specific Relief Act, 1963 was not i...
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Thursday, May 3, 2018

Why Should Specific Performance not be the Default Remedy: A Critique of the Recently Proposed Amendments

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Edward Fry in his epochal work on Specific Performance prophesied: " It may be suggested that [] a perfect system of jurisprudence ...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Reliance Interest in Contract Damages and Expectation Damages

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In the past few weeks, we have been discussing the recently proposed amendments to the Specific Relief Act, 1963 ( this ,  this and this ...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Efficient Breach as a Justification for Specific Performance as an Exception

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Readers may recollect the two recent posts in this blog ( here and here ) on the proposed amendments to the Specific Relief Act, 1963. T...