Debate:- Prior to 30 November 2003 the pursuers and the defender, together with the defender's late husband, were in partnership as restaurateurs of an Indian restaurant and was governed by a contract of partnership dated 4 January 1991 and registered in the Books of Council and Session on 14 January 1991. Following the defender's husband’s death in 2002 the pursuers served a notice of dissolution of partnership,the effect of which was to dissolve the partnership as at 30 November 2003. Th ...
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Debate:- In this action the pursuer sought damages from the defender alleging that the defender committed the delict of inducing a breach of contract. On behalf of the defenders it was submitted that the action should be dismissed as the pursuers had not relevantly averred a delictual case of inducing breach of contract as a person only commits such a delict when he induces or procures another person to break his contract. It was submitted that there were no averments that the defender had activ ...
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Debate:- In this action the pursuers sought damages for alleged negligent misrepresentation and breach of contract on the part of the defenders during the course of various property transactions and loans in the 1990s. An earlier action arising out of the same circumstances, but on the basis of different pleadings to the present action, was dismissed in October 2006. At debate senior counsel for the defenders challenged the claim on three grounds:- (1) that the loss claimed was outside the ...
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Debate:- In November 2006 the pursuers, a firm of building contractors, entered into a contract with the defenders for the construction of works in a site at New Stevenston Road, Carfin. The defenders were the employers in terms of the contract and appointed the Mason Evans Partnership as the Engineer under the contract. In this action the pursuers sought payment of sums owing plus interest. The pursuers claimed payment of an amout of £1,136,525, as certified by the Engineer, less payments ...
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Reclaiming Motion:- In this action the appellant sought damages from the respondents for a breach of contract. The appellant enrolled with the respondents to become a professional golfer and attended and satisfactorily completed training courses and became entitled to sit the respondents' final examination. He was required as part of that final examination to sit a practical test. He passed all parts of this examination with the exception of the part relating to the alteration and repair of golf ...
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Petition for Partial Recall of Inhibition:- The petitioners were spouses who formally traded from a restaurant in Bothwell which they occupied under a long lease. In 2006 another couple obtained an interest in the business and entered into a partnership with the petitioners. Later in the same year an action was raised by the respondent in Hamilton Sheriff Court against all four partners seeking payment of a sum of £204,000. The petitioners were inhibited by the respondents by letters of inh ...
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Amendment Procedure:- The pursuers raised the action in September 2002, and was founded upon alleged breaches of collateral undertakings which the respective defenders granted in the pursuers' favour relative to the conduct of the reconstruction works. Further, the pursuers asserted a contractual right, by virtue of the same collateral undertakings, to be indemnified against the losses which they sustained. Previously, in November 2007, the court rejected the defenders' challenge to the pursuers ...
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Proof:- In this action the pursuers sought to recover architects fees from the defenders in relation to a hotel development at a golf and country club in Cheshire. Around 1994, the pursuers, a firm of architects began carrying out work for the defenders, a hospitality company which owns and develops hotels. Evidence was led on behalf of both parties. The pursuers' claimed that they were entitled to the sum sued for as being fees due under the normal percentage fee arrangement that operated betwe ...
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Contract of Sale and Consumer Credit Contract - whether rescinded – measure of damages The Pursuer purchased a laptop computer from the First Defenders’ retail outlet, PC World, on the understanding that he could return it if it did not have an internal modem. He paid £50 and signed a credit agreement with the Second Defenders. The laptop did not have an internal modem but PC World refused to accept the return of the computer and did not take any steps to repay the Pursuer or t ...
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Contract - Partnership Agreement- Mutuality of Contract - Retention of performance on basis of Pursuer's breach of fiduciary duty The Pursuer was a former partner in a firm of Stranraer solicitors. He had acted fraudulently when dealing with clients. He accepted that he was in breach of the fiduciary duty he owed to his partners and, therefore, in breach of the partnership agreement. He raised an action in the Commercial Court against the firm and his former partners for payment of a pension. T ...
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