| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2009] All ER (D) 107 (May) |
| Neutral Citation: | [2009] EWHC 982 (QB) |
| Court: | Queen's Bench Division |
| Judge: | Royce J |
| Representation | James Brocklebank (instructed by Turners LLP) for the claimant. |
| Nicholas Craig (instructed by Pilsbury Winthrop Shaw & Pittman LLP) for the defendant. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 12 May 2009 |
Catchwords
Contract - Construction - Conduct of parties - Claimant and defendant entering into agreement for claimant to be sole distributor of defendant's product in United Kingdom and Ireland - Parties not entering into written agreement - Claimant contending conduct of parties showing they were acting on its terms - Whether claimant establishing conduct of parties showing they were acting on its terms - Whether defendant entitled to terminate for repudiatory breach.
The Case
Contract Construction. Queen's Bench Division: The court ruled that it was trite law that terms of an agreement could be accepted by conduct, and that the burden of showing that parties had acted on the terms of a written agreement which had not been executed lay on the party so contending. In the instant case, that burden had not been discharged.
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