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Breach of warranty vs condition
  • 12 Dec 2024

    TANG YANG v. QIU SHICHANG

    Citation
    [2024] HKDC 2086
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCCJ2922/2022

    Clause 8 applies where the vendor failed to complete in accordance with the agreement; the defendant breached clauses 5(e) and 5(f) and those provisions are best characterised as intermediate terms (capable of fundamental breach); the breaches were fundamental and undermined the contract, entitling the plaintiff to terminate and to the refund of deposits and liquidated damages; alternatively the agreement contained an implied term that completion was subject to the purchaser's reasonable satisfaction of due diligence and that was breached, producing the same result.