Sentences with phrase «repudiatory breach of contract»

It also held that, as suspension took place only a few days after additional supportive measures had been put in place (which had not been fully implemented), this also constituted a further repudiatory breach of contract by Lambeth.

It's a concept grounded in contract law, i.e. for a claim to succeed, the employee must show that their employer's conduct was so bad (what's called a repudiatory breach of contract) that it destroyed the employment contract, thus entitling them to resign.

an employer properly following its disciplinary process and / or the outcome of such a process, can not amount to, or contribute to, a repudiatory breach of contract

EE later alleged that Phones 4U had committed a repudiatory breach of contract, by ceasing to trade upon the appointment of administrators, meaning that Phones 4U was in breach of its contractual obligations to market and sell its products for the duration of the contract.

If not, was that act (or omission) by itself a repudiatory breach of contract (i.e. of sufficient importance to justify resignation)?

It was held that the «last straw» principle simply means that the final matter which leads to the acceptance of a repudiatory breach of contract when taken together and cumulatively with earlier conduct entitles a party to accept a repudiatory breach of contract, whether that last matter is in itself a breach of contract or not.

Where the substance of a complaint is made known it is not also necessary to identify the trigger for accepting the repudiatory breach, and so the trigger for a decision to accept a repudiatory breach of contract need not itself be the subject of a grievance.

A repudiatory breach of contract is one that is so serious that it entitles the innocent party to the contract to terminate it.

Simply put, the employer's conduct has to be so bad that it constitutes a repudiatory breach of the contract and that because of such breach the employee is entitled to leave.

By the time the matter reached the Court of Appeal they instead sought to rely on the analogous principle that an innocent party faced with a repudiatory breach of contract can not choose to affirm the contract, as opposed to accepting the repudiation and suing for damages, if he has no legitimate interest in doing so.

the damages payable to the landlord under the statute should be assessed in exactly the same way as for a repudiatory breach of contract.