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Mnemomic for structure?

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I Poured Coffee Carelessly Risking Castration

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Poole’s definition of a misrepresentation

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An unambiguous false statement of fact made to the claimant which induces the claimant to enter into the contract with the statement maker

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Dimmock v Hallet

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A mere puff is not actionable

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Carlill v Carbollic Smokeball

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Adverts are generally mere puff, though this wasn’t

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J Evans v A Merzario

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A misrepresentation can also be a term of the contract though this is beyond the remit of the question

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McInerny v Lloyds

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Ambiguous so not misrepresentation

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Avon v Swire

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Substantially false

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Horsfall v Thomas

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Statement must be made to claimant so they are acting upon it

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Commercial Banking v RH Brown

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Statement addressed to a 3rd party can be an actionable misrep if the 3rd party is certainly going to pass it on (authority fo statement made to claimant)

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Keates v Earl of Cadogan

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No general duty of disclosure

Silence in general is not a statement of fact so is not actionable

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Pankhania v Hackney

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Statement of law is actionable

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Gordon v Selico

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Conduct is actionable despite silence

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SPice Girls v Aprilla

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Conduct is actionable despite silence

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Bisset v Wilkinson

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Statement of lay opinion is not actionable

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Smith v Land Corp

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Statement with greater knowledge is actionable

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Esso v Marden

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Statement of an expert is actionable

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Wales v Wadham

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Statement of future intent is not actionable and there is no duty to inform the other party of a change of intent

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Edginton v Fitzmaurice

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Future intention is actionable if there was never any real intention

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Sykes v Taylor-Rose

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In some circumstances there will be a duty to disclose information. E.g. buying a house

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Dimmock v Hallet (2)

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A half truth is actionable if it is misleading

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With v O’Flannagan

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A continuing representation is actionable

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Hood v West End Motors

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Silence is actionable in contracts of the utmost good faith where there is a duty to disclose a fact (Land/insurance)

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Pan Atlantic v Pine Top

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A statement is material if it would induce the reasonable man. This presumption can be rebutted

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Smith v Chadwick

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Where the reasonable man would be induced there is a presumption that the claimant is induced, unless this presumption is rebutted with evidence that thy were not subjectively induced

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Museprime v Adhill
Where no inducement presumed, this can be rebutted by evidence showing that the claimant was induced
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Redgrave v Hurd
1. No general duty of investigation | 2. No inducement where the claimant knows the statement to be untrue
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Attwood v Small
No inducement if you rely on your own investigations
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Edginton v Fitzmaurice (2)
If misrepresentation is a factor at all then the statement is actionable
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JEB Fastners v Mark Bloom
The misrep must have been A factor, does not have to be the only factor
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S pearson v Dublin Corp
Investigation irrelevant in fraudulent misrepresentations
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Derry v Peek
A fraudulent misrepresentation is made; - Knowing the statement is untrue - Without belief in the truth - Reckless to the truth
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What remedies are available for fraudulent misrepresentation?
- Damages - Indemnity - Rescission
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Standard chartered banking v Pakistan National Shipping
Contributory negligence not available under fraudulent misrepresentation
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Doyle v OLby
Damages can be claimed for all loss flowing from the transaction, provided not too remote
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East v Maurer
Loss of profits can be claimed, compared to hypothetical ideal
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Chappel v Downs c/f Acquitane v Laporte
1. If any profit made lost profit cannot be claimed | 2. If you can prove you would have made a substantially greater profit this is claimable
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Thomas Witter v TBP
Fraudulent misrep if you are reckless to the truth - flagrant disregard for the truth
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New SMith Court v Scrimgeour Vickers
Damages reduced by benefit acrrued to the claimant
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Erlanger v New Sombrero
Court will do what is practically just - Relevant for rescission
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Royscott v Rodgerson
Fiction of fraud. Negligent misrepresentation treated the same as fraudulent misrepresentation
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Negligent misrepresentation
S2(1) MA 1967 - False statement of fact which the defendant believes but is unreasonable to believe - Howard Marine v Ogden
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What remedies are available for misrepresentation?
All of them; Rescission, damages, damages in lieu of rescission
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Damages for negligent misrepresentation
Royscott v Rodgerson - treated the same as fraudulent misrep other than that only damages flowing from particular misstatement are claimable
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Poole (obiter)
Unlikely to get loss of profits in negligent misrepresentation
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Damages in lieu of rescission under negligent misrepresentation
Zanzibar v British Aerospace - If there are bars to rescission then damages in lieu of rescission are not available (current state of law) Thomas v TBP - If rescission ever available then damages in lieu of rescission can be claimed
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Contributory negligence in negligent misrepresentation
Gran Gelato - Yes can claim contrib neg if concurrent claim in tort (Vesta v Butcher) Royscott v Rodgerson - No cannot claim contrib neg. (Grey area)
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Innocent misrepresentation
S2(1) MA 1967Where a false statement of fact is made, but it is genuinely believed, and it is reasonable to believe it (objective test)
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Remedies under innocent misrep
Rescission, damages in lieu of rescission, indemnity (most relevant here)
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Whittington v Seale - Hayne
Business tax indemnified for turkey farm
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Negligent misstatement
Where a 3rd party makes a misrepresentation
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Hedley Byrne v Heller
Test for negligent misstatement; - Foreseeable reliance - Proximity - Fair just and reasonable
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What remedies are available for negligent misstatement?
Only damages which must be foreseeable (Wagonmound) (tortious measure)
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What are the bars to recission?
Third party rights (Phillips v Brooks) Affirmation (Long v Lloyd) Impossibility (Clarke v Dickinson) Lapse of time (Leaf v International Galleries)
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UCTA in relation to exemption clauses
S3 - Can only exclude liability for a misrepresentation as far as is reasonable (S11)
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S11 - UCTA 1977 - Reasonableness test
- Fair and reasonable on circumstances - At time contract entered into - BoP is on party seeking to enforce term

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