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03 February 2017
Issue: 7732 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Sale of goods

Wood and another v TUI Travel plc (trading as First Choice) [2017] EWCA Civ 11, [2017] All ER (D) 53 (Jan)

The Court of Appeal upheld a decision of the trial judge who had found that the claimant holiday makers could recover damages from the defendant travel company pursuant to the implied condition in s 4(2) of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 for acute gastroenteritis suffered whilst staying at a hotel on an all-inclusive holiday. The food and drink supplied to the claimants at the hotel were goods in which property could be transferred.

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