Remedies - specific performance

Question 1

Falcke v Gray (1859)

unique goods

Question 2

Beswick v Beswick [1968]

damages unavailable for breach of a contractual duty to benefit widow, who was not a party

Question 3

Sky Petroleum Ltd v VIP Petroleum Ltd [1974]

petrol shortage; commercially unique goods

Question 4

Lumley v Wagner [1852]

opera singer contracted to sing exclusively at one opera house; injunction

Question 5

De Francesco v Barnum (No 1) (1890)

apprentice dancers prohibited from obtaining other work

Question 6

Wilson v Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway Co (1873-74)

contract to build a railway station too uncertain

Question 7

Co-operative Insurance Soc v Argyll Stores (Holdings) [1998]

Supermarket company breached positive covenant to keep shop open

Question 8

Walters v Morgan (1861)

specific performance; clean hands

Question 9

Malins v Freeman (1837)

the defendant accidentally bought wrong property at auction

Question 10

Patel v Ali [1984]

hardship