{"id":5853,"date":"2018-03-07T09:26:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T09:26:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-06-14T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:44:33","slug":"eminence-property-v-heaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawteacher.net\/cases\/eminence-property-v-heaney.php","title":{"rendered":"Eminence Property Developments v Heaney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eminence Property Developments Ltd v Heaney [2010] EWCA Civ 1168<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Repudiatory breach of contract and the right to terminate.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"facts\">Facts<\/h3>\n<p>Mr. Heaney purchased 13 flats from Eminence Property for an aggregate price, concluding 13 separate contracts, with identical terms, with a completion date of 4 December 2008. Heaney failed to complete by 4 December. On 5 December, the seller\u2019s solicitors issued a \u2018notice to complete\u2019 within (10) working days pursuant to contractual clause 6.8, after which they would have the right to rescind the Contract under contractual clause 7.5.&nbsp; Treating the final date of completion as 15 December, the seller\u2019s solicitors issued a notice of breach and repudiation of the contract on 17 December. The actual completion date, calculating the definition of working days under the contract, was 19 December. Heaney alleged that it was not possible for him to complete the purchase as Eminence has wrongfully rescinded the contract prior to the expiry of the notice to complete.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"issues\">Issues<\/h3>\n<p>The question arose as to whether the seller\u2019s mistaken notices of recession constituted a repudiatory breach of contract that entitled the purchaser to terminate the contract.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"decision\">Decision\/Outcome<\/h3>\n<p>The Court held that the test for repudiatory breach of contract requires an assessment of all circumstances of the contract objectively, from the view of a reasonable person in the position of the innocent party, to determine whether the breaching party has demonstrated an intention to abandon the contract. In so construing, the motive of the breaching party is a relevant circumstance, in so far as it reflects the way in which the alleged repudiatory act would have been viewed by the innocent party or a reasonable party in his\/her position. Accordingly, on the facts, the Court held that it could not infer an intention by Eminence to abandon the contract, particularly in light of the contractual clauses and Heaney\u2019s awareness of the mistaken date. Thus, the seller\u2019s mistaken notices of recession did not constitute a repudiatory breach that entitled the purchaser to terminate the contract.<\/p>\n<p>Word Count: 323<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Heaney purchased 13 flats from Eminence Property for an aggregate price, concluding 13 separate contracts, with identical terms&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-5853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cases","tag-uk-law"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eminence Property Developments v Heaney | LawTeacher.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mr. Heaney purchased 13 flats from 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