Carlill V. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company Case

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1. This case was held in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Melbourne.

2. Dodds Streeton J is the judge of this case. Her title displays that she is Honourable Judge and she is in control.

3. Medium neutral citation refers to citing of unreported judgement. A citation that would be used if the case used reported report would be - Mildura Office Equipment & Supplies Pty v Canon Finance Australia Ltd [2006] + court identifier number + judgement number and the names of the judges along with the date of judgement with the word unreported in front.

4. A unilateral contracts involves one party paying or promising another party something in return of preforming a certain task.

5. The Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company case established the definition. It made an add which rewarded money to use their product 3 times per day. If …show more content…

The Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company case defined a unilateral contract and is now a regular statement for what a unilateral contract is.

7. Dodds -Stretton J regarded Mr Blancato/ the defendant as more reliable, consistent and credible. It was only available for those who BISG dealers and was only once the rental agreement was completed.

8. The judge dismissed the claim of the plaintiff as there was not a unilateral contract in place and that the plaintiff was committed to its rental agreement as a customer.

9. The Plaintiff claims that he achieved his first rental agreement contract and was entitled to purchase the equipment for $1 after the rental period expired. Later the Canon Australia business dealership was terminated and the defendant refused to sell the office equipment to the plaintiff. He then claims that this is in fact a breach of contract.

10. The plaintiff failed due to not being able to firmly establish the existence of a unilateral contract. If the defendant did not construct a contract, then he has no liabilities to withhold. He was unable to provide enough evidence on the contract and was leaving aspects

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