Contracts (rights of third parties) bill: Implications for the IT/Technology industry

✍ Scribed by John Warchus

• Book ID: 104322334
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 180 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0267-3649
• DOI: 10.1016/s0267-3649(99)80054-5

✦ Synopsis

The Government intends that this Bill to reform English contract law, shall be enacted and in force by the end of 1999,The aim of the Bill is to abolish the 'privity rule' in English contract law whereby, in general terms, only the parties to a particular contract are entitled to enforce its terms, As a Government-backed Bill which is largely implementing the recommendations of a Law Commission paper, it is likely that the final statute will be substantially as set out in the Bill,