Cases To Remember

Question 1

Partridge v critterden

Answer 1

1968

Advertisement is and invertation to treat not a offer

Question 2

Harvey v facey

Answer 2

1893

Information does not mean acceptance

No contract without acceptance

Ball pen £900 lowest cash price

Question 3

Mercantile credit V garrod

Answer 3

1962

A partner may make contracts which bind the other partners

Question 4

Salomon V Salomon

Answer 4

(1897)
Recognised that a company could be set up to shield its members from liability

It implicitly recognised the validity of the one man company

The fact a person holds shares even all the shares is not enough to create an agency relationship

Question 5

Hickman v Kent

Answer 5

(1915)

Company’s articles stated if a member had a dispute with the company it should be settled by arbitration

Hickman took them to courts and the courts told Hickman he was contractually tied

Question 6

Poland V John parr

Answer 6

1927

Employee wrongly believed the boy was tampering with the bag of sugar, and hit the boy

Employer was held vicariously liable

Question 7

Century insurance V norther Ireland road transport board

Answer 7

1942

Employer was doing a bad job and he caused an explosion

Employer was held vicariously liable due to the employee doing what he was hired to do

Question 8

Cork report

Answer 8

1982

Favoured establishing a rescue culture

Companies in financial difficulty can be rescued

Question 9

Walter Jacob Ltd

Answer 9

1989

Company is set up for fraudulent purposes