Contract Law – Review of Retention: consultation
A consultation paper which seeks views on what any reforms to the law in relation to retention of performance of contractual obligations should look like.
Footnotes
2 The Scottish Law Commission Report on Review of Contract Law.
3 Inveresk plc v Tullis Russell Papermakers Ltd [2010] UKSC 19. For a summary of this case see Annex B.
4 L Richardson, “The scope and limits of the right to retain contractual performance”, 2018 (4) Juridical Review, pages 209-229 and “What do we know about retention now?” 2018 Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 22(3), pages 387-392.
5 Bank of East Asia v Scottish Enterprise 1997 SLT 1213.
6 McNeill v Aberdeen City Council [2013] CSIH 102. For a summary of this case see Annex B.
7 See the discussion in MacQueen and Thomson on Contract Law in Scotland, paras 6.9 and 6.16.
8 For discussion of special retention see L Richardson, “Examining ‘equitable’ retention” 2016 20(1) Edinburgh Law Review 18.
9 See Chapter 14 of the Report.
10 See Chapters 16 and 17 of the Report.
11 The relevant (default) provision can be found at section 17 of the draft SLC Bill.
12 [2018] CSIH 33, 2018 SC 440.
13 "What do we know about retention now?", Lorna Richardson, Edinburgh Law Review, 2018, 22(3), pp. 387-39.
14 1997 SLT 1213. (Cited in footnote 5, page 102 of Report). “I do not consider that the authorities warrant so broad a proposition as that any material breach by one party to a contract necessarily disentitles him from enforcing any and every obligation due by the other party.”
15 [2010] UKSC 19, 2010 SC (UKSC) 106. For a summary of this case see Annex B.
16 Review of Contract Law: Formation, Interpretation, Remedies for Breach and Penalty Clauses (Scot Law Com No 252, 2018) - Para 11.26, Page 124.
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