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16 October 2015
Issue: 7672 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Repudiation

MR H TV Ltd (formerly known as CAN Associates TV Ltd) v ITV2 Ltd [2015] EWHC 2840 (Comm), [2015] All ER (D) 85 (Oct)

The Commercial Court held that the defendant television company had wrongfully terminated the claimant company’s contract with it. The events that the defendant had described as fundamental breaches of the agreement between the parties had not been, and so the defendant had not been entitled to terminate the agreement. In purporting to do so, it had itself been in repudiatory breach of the agreement.

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Thackray Williams—Lucy Zhu

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