Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [1998] All ER (D) 460
Court: Queen's Bench Division (Technology and Construction Court)
Judge:

Dyson J

Representation Jonathan Harvie QC and Gerald Clarke (instructed by Bedfordshire County Council Legal Services) for the council.
  Richard Wilmot-Smith QC and Sean Wilken (instructed by Winward Fesron) for the defendants.
Judgment Dates: 16 October 1998

Catchwords

Contract - Repudiation - Contract for construction and maintenance of highways - Defendant contractors failing to begin work on specified date - Whether defendants thereby repudiating contract - Whether contract analogous to contract of employment.

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