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    The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (c. 31) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly reformed the common law...
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    the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, which created a statutory exception to privity, providing, in certain circumstances, third parties the...
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    parties (said to be privy to the contract). However, the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 introduced a number of allowances and exceptions for...
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  • Privity in English law (category English contract law)
    passing of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 on 11 November 1999 the doctrine was significantly altered, and it now allows a third party to...
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    Beswick v Beswick (category House of Lords cases)
    Denning's decision has largely been given effect by the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. However the case remains good law in many other Commonwealth...
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    Tweddle v Atkinson (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    doctrines (such as the use of negotiable instruments), the greatest being the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 which allows, in general, a...
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  • Thumbnail for Dutton v Poole (1678)
    in run-of-the-mill contract cases for around a century, in 1999 reinstatated and broadened by the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. In this...
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  • under the contract of carriage as if he had been a party to the contract of carriage". Note: the UK's Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 does NOT...
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    Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 and the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982, making some changes to rights to return faulty goods...
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    commercial contracts' [2000] LMCLQ 540, but also, heaping criticism on the reforms, R Stevens, 'The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999' (2004)...
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    ACT New Zealand (Māori: Rōpū ACT), also known as the ACT Party or simply ACT (/ˈækt/), is a right-wing, classical liberal, right-libertarian, and conservative...
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  • Himalaya clause (category Contract clauses)
    in the Himalaya. Although the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 does NOT apply to contracts for carriage of goods by sea (in order to avoid...
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  • of the doctrine and two Law Commission reports proposed reform. Finally, English law was amended by the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999,...
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  • (Frustrated Contracts) Act 1943 (which, inter alia, coped with contracts rendered void by war), and the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, which...
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    A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties. A contract typically involves...
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  • Tort (redirect from Law of torts)
    tortum. Under the UK Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, a person may enforce a contract even when they are not a party to it. If an employee...
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    contract) is a contract between two parties, where the terms and conditions of the contract are set by one of the parties, and the other party has little...
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  • are party to a contract can sue or be sued upon it. This doctrine was substantially amended by the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, which...
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  • Thumbnail for Nisshin Shipping Co Ltd v Cleaves & Co Ltd
    Nisshin Shipping Co Ltd v Cleaves & Co Ltd (category English contract case law)
    2602 is an English contract law case concerning the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. Cleaves & Co Limited was a firm of chartering brokers...
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    Andrew Burrows, Lord Burrows (category Judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
    Arden, DBE). This led to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, which significantly reformed the law of contract in England & Wales and Northern...
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    Antenuptial contracts and long leases of land are valid between the parties, but are unenforceable against third parties. The parties themselves may...
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    Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/2083) was a UK statutory instrument, which implemented the EU (then EEC) Unfair Consumer Contract Terms Directive...
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  • Thumbnail for Jackson v Horizon Holidays Ltd
    Jackson v Horizon Holidays Ltd (category English contract case law)
    English contract law case, concerning the doctrine of Privity. The case would now be partly resolved by the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 section...
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    of lading to be "conclusive evidence of receipt", thereby annulling the decision in Grant v Norway 1851. The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999...
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  • Thumbnail for Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
    Contract Terms Act 1977 (c. 50) is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which regulates contracts by restricting the operation and legality of some...
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    assurance policy. (Also, the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 enables both men and women to enforce contracts drawn up by others for their...
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  • Thumbnail for Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd
    English contract law case notable for its pronouncements on the doctrine of privity, since modified by the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. Between...
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  • concept within the law of contract, and is a necessity for simple contracts (but not for special contracts by deed). The concept of consideration has been...
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    Nations Human Rights Committee, which reviews regular reports of states parties on how the rights are being implemented. States must report one year after...
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    [1915] 1 Ch 881 The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 s 6, excludes the Companies Acts from its scope; however the rule of privity is unsteady...
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