Part 3—Expansion of remedies available at common law and in equity for misrepresentation The measure of restitution where a person has been unjustly enriched Extracts from the original finding of Cohen J of fraudulent misrepresentation: Intention that the other party should act upon the representation Whether failure by the contractor to take action under clause Constructional principles relating to performance bank guarantees The parties fell into dispute in relation to the works.
The respondent claimed that the appellants had repudiated the contract, and purported to terminate the contract by accepting that repudiation. The respondent then claimed that it was entitled to recover payment for its work, including variations, upon a quantum meruit.
As a result, it is unnecessary to address the second ground of appeal. In relation to the issue raised by the third ground of appeal, we agree with the conclusion and reasons of Nettle, Gordon and Edelman JJ and have nothing useful to add…..
Different considerations may apply in cases where advance payments are sought to be recovered by restitutionary claims for money paid, although it may be that the law of contract adequately provides for such cases. In the present case, there is no good reason to consider that damages for breach of contract would fail to meet the justice of the case such that a restitutionary claim for quantum meruit should be available. It is not necessary to consider the position in other contexts or with respect to other restitutionary claims as the present case is concerned only with a claim for remuneration for work and labour done under a contract terminated for repudiation or breach.
Category 2 : work for which the Builder has accrued a contractual right to payment Chan Sek Keong CJ delivering the grounds of decision of the court : Obligation to act honestly, and to have regard to interests of other venturers? The preface is as follows: Preface I have spent a fair proportion of my professional life as a lawyer collecting payment for contractors who have undertaken construction or engineering work, but who have not been paid for it adequately or at all.
Rogers J said at page 87 :. The contract is not to perform the work set out in any plan; all work necessarily required for the construction must be done whether set out in the plan or not. Such instructions are usually required to be in writing. This is a matter of interpretation of the contract. Variation clauses, even if widely drafted, nevertheless have limitations. One such limitation is the issuance of the practical certificate of completion.
Commissioner of State Bank v Constain 3 ACLR 1 illustrates the point that the power to order variations is not in force after the certificate of practical completion as it then reaches the stage for maintenance and rectification of defects. This restriction is now reflected in AS Clause Secondly, the contractor is not required to undertake works that are outside the scope of the variation clause itself. To my mind, if a variation may fairly be said to be a change to the works as these described, whether it comprised an addition, reduction or substitution to the works or effects the carrying out of the works, then it is a variation which the contractor is under an obligation to carry out, if it is beyond that, it is not.
A third limitation that is sometimes canvassed is this. Clauses like these prevent the proprietor from effecting fundamental changes to the building design or works under the guise of variations. Other limitations relate to the right of the proprietor to omit works from the contractor. Generally, the power to vary the scope of works does not allow a proprietor to deprive the contractor of the benefit of that work altogether.
The contract also contained a clause allowing the engineer to omit any of the works. The engineer, instead of allowing the contractor to obtain the required topsoil from other approved locations, decided to omit the works from the contractor and awarded the works to another contractor, at a cheaper rate. The High Court of Australia held that the clause only gave the engineer the choice between directing the contractor to obtain the topsoil or to omit the works. It did not confer on the engineer the right to have the works performed by a third party.
Were he [the engineer] legally entitled to do so it would, I think, run counter to a concept basic to the contract, namely that the contractor, as successful tenderer, should have the opportunity of performing the whole of the contract works. The architect subsequently deleted a substantial portion of that particular work from the main contract and the main contractor did likewise with the subcontract.
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