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6. Which is NOT a bar to rescission?

  • Undue delay / lapse of time, i.e. time delay longer than necessary to check the validity of the representation (Leaf)
  • No substantial loss by representee
  • Impossible for one party to substantially restore goods/property to the other
  • Affirmation, i.e. choosing to treat the contract as continuing to be valid
  • Innocent purchaser acquires an interest in the property before the contract is avoided, without notice of any misrepresentation

7. Which is NOT required to show 3P creditor put on inquiry regarding undue influence took reasonable steps to alert surety?

  • Private meeting with creditor in which surety warned of risk running
  • Private meeting with independent legal advisor
  • Private meeting with creditor in which surety told of extent of liability
  • Private meeting with creditor in which surety urged to take independent legal advice (or sometimes creditor must insist & refuse to take security if not)

8. In which of the following must a fiduciary relationship be established (rather than it being irrebuttably presumed)

  • Doctor-patient
  • Parent-child
  • Husband-wife
  • Solicitor-client

9. Definition of "rescission"?

  • Where contract is set aside and parties are put back into position in which they were before contract was made (PLC)
  • Where a contract is null from the beginning, e.g. by seriously offending law or public policy, in contrast to merely voidable at the election of one of the parties (Black's Law Dictionary)
  • Equitable remedy, whereby court will award innocent party a sum reflecting what he might have obtained had D not acted unjustly
  • Where unforeseen circumstances prevent the performance of a contract so that it may be treated as discharged.

10. Which is NOT true regarding damages under s2(2) Misrepresentation Act 1967?

  • Only if misrepresentation is fraudulent
  • Court has discretion and won’t award if rescission has been barred
  • Given in lieu of rescission, according to court's discretion
  • Likely only where false statement was a small matter, and unfair to allow rescission

11. What are the remedies available for misrepresentation?

  • Rescission, restitution, indemnity
  • Rescission, damages, indemnity
  • Rescission, damages, injunction
  • Rescission, restitution, injunction

12. What is the effect where 3P creditor has actual/constructive notice of undue influence over surety?

  • 3P creditor can be pursued with proprietary claim / restitution of profits
  • Any security contract obtained as a result = voidable (Barclays, confirmed in Etridge)
  • 3P creditor is innocent purchaser, so rescission is barred
  • Any security contract obtained as a result = void (Barclays, confirmed in Etridge)

13. Which is generally NOT a misrepresentation?

  • Recipient's failure to discover truth when given opportunity to do so (Redgrave v Hurd)
  • Silence, including failure to correct (Hamilton)
  • Failure to disclose changes in a previously true fact (With v O’Flanagan)
  • Half-truth (Curtis v Chemical Cleaning)

14. Definition of "misrepresentation"?

  • Positive statement of fact or law, made or adopted by a party to a contract, which is untrue. Rescission available where made with object and result of inducing other into contract in reliance on it (Halsbury)
  • Where one party is mistaken and the other knows or ought to have known of the mistake
  • Where a false representation has been made knowingly, or without belief in its truth, or recklessly as to its truth.
  • A representation made carelessly and in breach of duty owed by Party A to Party B to take reasonable care that the representation is accurate.

15. Which is NOT an effect of frustration?

  • Neither party in breach
  • Contract comes to an end
  • Neither party owes any sum of money to the other
  • Both parties released from contractual obligations

16. Which is NOT a condition for nature of pressure in duress?

  • Must be "illegitimate" according to factors in Carillion Construction
  • Must take place within fiduciary relationship
  • Effect is compulsion on, or lack of practical choice for, the victim
  • Must be a significant cause inducing claimant to enter or agree to vary

17. Which IS true regarding expenses following frustration?

  • Court will always take into account insurance payments
  • Money already paid before the frustrating event can be recovered; and money payable before the event ceases to be payable
  • Money already paid after the frustrating event can be recovered; and money payable after the event ceases to be payable
  • Court may allow recovery of a ‘just’ amount of the expenses paid, not exceeding their total value

18. Which is NOT a factor indicating illegitimate pressure in duress, according to Carillion Construction?

  • Lack of realistic practical alternative
  • Victim protested at the time
  • Exerter of pressure acted in bad faith
  • Whether victim affirmed or sought to rely on contract (less likely if so)
  • Threat to issue legal proceedings / not to enter into contract
  • Actual or threatened breach of contract / tort

19. Which is NOT an unforeseen event capable of frustrating contract?

  • Illegality, eg. entering into contract where to deliver would mean trading with enemy (Fibrosa)
  • Hardship, inconvenience or material loss (Davis v Fareham)
  • Unavailability of thing (Taylor v Caldwell) or person (Condor v Barron Knights)
  • Non occurrence of event, where occurrence is foundation of the contract, and parties were chosen for that express purpose (Krell)
  • Government intervention, provided did not constitute merely short or temporary stoppage (D. Kerr)