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CASE CORNER: A snail in a bottle – Donoghue v Stevenson
The case of a snail in a bottle is one of the first cases you learn about when you study law and it’s one of the few where the facts really stick in your brain! What happened? Donoghue went to a café where her friend bought Donoghue a bottle of ginger beer. When she...
CASE CORNER: Should I stay, or should I go?
When the Commercial Director of the Mid Essex Hospital Services Trust terminated its contract with outsourced catering provider Compass Group (trading as Medirest) on 27 July 2009, it most definitely was not the “end” of the contract for the Trust. It was the start of...
CASE CORNER: The £1.3 million email! Superdrug v Athena
When a buyer for Superdrug emailed a supplier, he ended up costing Superdrug £1.3m! The issue for Superdrug was that they were bound by a minimum commitment that they didn’t expect. What happened… Athena was a relatively small supplier who had negotiated...