Tag: Contract, Agriculture

When deciding whether a document is a binding contract or merely an agreement to agree, the guiding principle is whether the terms are sufficiently clear and certain to be enforceable in practice. In an instructive High Court case, that test was met by a handwritten

Promises upon which others rely to their detriment have the full force of contract and must be kept. The Court of Appeal made that point in the case of a dairy farmer who toiled on her parents’ land for 30 years after receiving repeated assurances