The Jubilee Media Case

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A legally binding contract must have good consideration for the purpose of limiting the enforceability of agreements and to avoid any ‘mistake, misrepresentation, duress or illegality’. Lush J defines consideration as ‘some right, interest, profit or benefit accruing to the one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, or responsibility given, suffered, or undertaken by the other’. In simple terms, consideration is a doctrine of reciprocity where each party must ascertain a benefit and detriment; it is ‘the price for which the promise of the other is bought’. In the Jubilee Media (JB) case, the benefit and detriment analysis will be used to determine whether the promise to pay the extra £100,000 constituted to sufficient consideration since Bobby Bodgit Ltd (BB) were already contractually bound to complete the work under the original contract or should ‘the law be…suspicious of contract modification’. General principles of consideration will also be analysed to determine whether JB is liable to pay the wages initially promised to the voice actors and engineers or whether part payment of a debt is sufficient. Consideration must move from the promisee is an important principle found in Tweddle v Atkinson where Crompton J. justifies this principle by suggesting that ‘it would be a monstrous proposition to say that a person was a party to the contract for the purpose of suing upon it for his own advantage’. In the case of JB, the consideration moved from BB, the actors and the engineers as they were providing their services to JB. So there is consideration in this instance, should the actors and engineers wish to sue JB for breach of contract for only partly paying their wages, there is likeliness their claim would succeed. C... ... middle of paper ... ...ir promise by agreeing to pay BB a further £100,000. Lady Justice Arden also enforced the principles of the High Trees case in Collier v P & MJ Wright Ltd as she states that ‘a debtor may be able to show that the right to recover the debt is not merely postponed but extinguished’. In Conclusion, the first issue is regarding whether or not Jubilee Media is liable to pay Bobby Bodgit Ltd an extra sum of £100,000 in order to complete the work on time. It is found that there is a practical, if not legal, benefit to Jubilee Media which is of completing and airing the documentary as well as not being sued by the advertisement companies he has already contracted with. The second issue is regarding part payment of a debt to the voice actors and engineer, principles of part payment and promissory estoppel clarify that they can not claim the payments initially promised.

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