Cases

Warren v The Random House Group Ltd (Nos.1-3) (CA)

Comment

This is the first decision analysing the circumstances in which an accepted offer of amends can be resiled from in favour of a substantive defence. The Court of Appeal preferred the view that there was no contract underlying an accepted offer of amends, but that the policy reasons for keeping people to the bargains they had made meant that special circumstances had to be shown before the Court would permit any escape from the statutory assessment of compensation.

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