Frustration

• Paradine v Jane

  Contractual obligations are strict and absolute
• Taylor v Caldwell

  Impossibility: venue 
• Morgan v Manser


  Impossibility: service 
• Condor v Barron Knights


  Impossibility: preformance
• Metropolitan waterboard v Dick Kerr


  Illegality
• Krell v Henry 


  Radical change in circumstances
• AIP v John Walker 


  Limit toto frustration: cannot be reasonably forseeable
• Maritime v Ocean Trawlers

  Limit to frustration: cannot be self induced
• Tskarioglou v Noblee Thorl


  Limit to frustration: more onerous

  / 'the doctrine of frustration must be applied within narrow limits'
• Chandler v Webster


  Effects of frustration: loss lay where it fell previously
• Law Reform (Frustrated contracts) Act 1943


  S1(2) money ceases to be payeable and moneymoney payed can be recoveread

  S1(3) where a valuable benefit is obtained a just sum must be payed (Gamerco v ICM)
• Gamerco v ICM


  Where a valuable benefit is obtained, a just sum must be payed