MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd v Rock Advertising Ltd

Subject Matter

CONTRACT — Formation — Consideration — Licence agreement — Parties agreeing to reschedule payments due under agreement — Defendant promising to pay and making payment in accordance with revised schedule — Whether good consideration — Whether licence agreement orally varied

[2016] EWCA Civ 553; [2017] QB 604; [2016] 3 WLR 1519; [2016] 2 Lloyd's Rep 391; [2016] L & TR 27; [2016] WLR (D) 330; The Times, 22 July 2016, CA

CONTRACT — Formation — Variation — Clause in licence agreement expressly precluding oral variation of agreement — Whether agreement capable of oral variation — Whether orally varied — Whether claimant’s acceptance of defendant’s promise possibly giving rise to collateral unilateral contract

[2016] EWCA Civ 553; [2017] QB 604; [2016] 3 WLR 1519; [2016] 2 Lloyd's Rep 391; [2016] L & TR 27; [2016] WLR (D) 330; The Times, 22 July 2016, CA

ESTOPPEL — Promissory estoppel — Effect of promise — Creditor agreeing to accept payment of debt by instalments — Debtor acting on agreement by paying one instalment — Creditor accepting instalment — Whether necessarily inequitable for creditor to go back on agreement and insist on payment of balance — Whether dependent on circumstance

[2016] EWCA Civ 553; [2017] QB 604; [2016] 3 WLR 1519; [2016] 2 Lloyd's Rep 391; [2016] L & TR 27; [2016] WLR (D) 330; The Times, 22 July 2016, CA

CONTRACT — Formation — Variation — Clause in licence agreement expressly precluding oral modification of agreement — Parties later orally agreeing to vary fee payment schedule set out in licence agreement — Whether variation valid — Whether clauses precluding oral modification legally effective

[2018] UKSC 24; [2019] AC 119; [2018] 2 WLR 1603; [2018] 4 All ER 21; [2018] 2 All ER (Comm) 961; [2018] BLR 479; [2018] WLR (D) 301; The Times, 22 May 2018; Case details, SC(E)

Appellate History

Commentary

Law and Lawyers blog
Contract ~ an interesting case Case comment

New Law Journal
Between a rock and a hard place (2018) 168 NLJ 7796, p 14

An exceptional appeal; a purist's outcome. Lessons from MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd v Rock Advertising Ltd (2018) 168 NLJ 7797, p 9

Blackstones Civil Practice 2023
Test for Entering Summary Judgment - Points of law and construction 34.14