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Showing posts with label Specific Performance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Specific Performance. Show all posts

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Termination of contract for loss of confidence

Percept Talent Management Pvt. vs Yuvraj Singh, 2008 (2) ARBLR 49 Bom, 2008 (2) BomCR 654: http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/1028780/


" An agreement of this kind is founded on trust, confidence and the basic principles which underlie a fiduciary relationship. The agreement is an instrument to provide an exposure to the public persona of the sportsperson. The public image of the sportsman is what the agreement is inextricably involved in generating. And the agent who represents the sportsman, negotiates on his behalf and deals as his sole and exclusive representative is a vital link in the creation of a public image. Such agreements are founded on trust and confidence. Where trust and confidence have ceased to exist in a relationship, the relationship cannot survive. The law will not enforce and compel parties to observe a relationship such as this where the foundation upon which it exists disappears. For the law does not enforce the husk where the substance does not survive. The aggrieved party is left to seek its remedies for breach in damages." 

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Specific Performance and Arbitration


 Apex Court in the case of Olympus Superstructure Pvt. Ltd. v. Meena Vijay Kheta and Ors. reported in MANU/SC/0359/1999 : AIR 1999 (SC) 2102. Para 38 of the judgment reads as under:



In our opinion, the view taken by the Punjab, Bombay and Calcutta High Courts is the correct one and the view taken by the Delhi High Court is not correct. We are of the view that the right to specific performance of an agreement of sale deals with contractual rights and it is certainly open to the parties to agree - with a view to shorten litigation in regular courts - to refer the issue relating to specific performance of arbitration. There is no prohibition in the Specific Relief Act, 1963 that issues relating to specific performance of contract relating to immovable property cannot be referred to arbitration. Nor is there such a prohibition contained in the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 as contrasted with Section 15 of the English Arbitration Act, 1950 or Section 48(5)(b) of the English Arbitrating Act, 1996 which contained a prohibition relating to specific performance of the contracts concerning immovable property.