| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2003] All ER (D) 276 (Feb) |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Civil Division |
| Judge: | Peter Gibson, Mance LJJ and Hooper J |
| Representation | Peter Ralls QC and Craig Barlow (instructed by Marshall Sutton Jones, Colchester) for the claimant. |
| Nicholas Peacock (instructed by Denton Wilde Sapte) for the defendants. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 20 February 2003 |
Catchwords
Lien - Contractual lien - Repudiation of contract - Lien arising under contract - Contract allegedly repudiated - Effect of alleged repudiation on lien.
The Case
Where a contract provided for a lien in certain circumstances, which had arisen and a lien had accordingly come into existence, the fact that that contract was then repudiated did not mean that there was any reason why the lien would have ceased to apply.
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