Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage
Equity looks on that as done which ought to be done
This maxim applies where something is agreed but had not actually been done. “The doctrine cannot in its application to contracts ... be permitted to turn the conditional into the absolute, the optional into the obligatory, or to make for the parties contracts different from those they have made for themselves. What a party to a contract ought to do, within the true meaning of this doctrine, is what he has contracted to do, and nothing more and nothing less is to be taken in the equity to be done”: De Beers v British South Africa Co [1912] per Lord Atkinson.
Fox hunting and the pensions crisis
I sat in a solicitor’s waiting room before giving a talk on pensions and read the Yorkshire Post. In it were some extracts and commentary on Tony Blair’s memoirs, Journey, which gave me my opening gambit. Pensions don’t count. In one excerpt he admitted that the piece of legislation of his premiership that he regretted
