LS283 Lecture 7: Breach of Contracts and Remedies
14 Feb 2019
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Looking at how contracts come to an end. In most cases, due to obligations by both (all) parties are completed. Or close enough to being done that parties will accept that outcome. Where this is not the situation, the argument that at least one, possibly both/all parties might make is that there is a breach or breaches of the contract. They only do that if it will result in something for them remedies. Vicarious performance is very common in business settings. Assigning employees to complete a contract who are different than. Assigning employees to complete a contract who are different than the employee who may have negotiated and/or signed the contract is vicarious performance. At all times it is still the business acting through the legal agency of their employees, you are dealing with the business. There will be times when it may be necessary for a business to arrange for a third-party to complete certain contract obligations.
