Anna Roberts Freelance
Building
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Oral promise? It's just talk
2003 issue 15
This was an appeal to the House of Lords in respect of the applicability of the doctrine of estoppel to guarantees, themselves governed by Section 4 of the Statute of Frauds 1677. Saint-Gobain had retained the First Defendant (“Inglen”) as the main contractor for the construction of a new factory in Yorkshire. Actionstrength was a labour-only subcontractor that supplied labour to Inglen. Inglen failed to make a payment to Actionstrength and Actionstrength indicated its intention to withdraw l
