Showing posts with label Contract Law: Remedies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contract Law: Remedies. 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...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Padia Timbers & Contracting Through Tendering Process

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A recent decision of the Supreme Court in Padia Timber v Vishakapatnam Port Trust is interesting on many counts. One, it is a rare decision...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Vidya Drolia v DTC: Part I: Interesting Aspects- Arbitration Law as a Special Contract Law

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 Vidya Drolia v Durga Trading Corporation is an interesting and important decision of a three judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India on ...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

No Injunction/ Interim Measure Against Infrastructure Projects: Calcutta HC Decides

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Golden Edge Engineering Private Limited vs. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (18.06.2020 - CALHC) : MANU/WB/0558/2020 is an important dec...
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, October 4, 2018

Critique of the Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018

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Over at Obiter Dicta , the respected Dr. Nilima Bhadbhade, one of the foremost experts in India on Contract and Specific Relief law, has p...
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Article Review: Shivprasad Swaminathan's De-inventing the Wheel: Liquidated Damages, Penalties and the Indian Contract Act, 1872

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Shivprasad Swaminathan's latest article in the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law ( link -subscription required) De-inventing the Whee...
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...