‘Sales’ on Retention of Title terms: is the English law analysis broken?

Hard cases make bad law. The history of the Bunkers litigation in the English courts demonstrates, as is often the case, that the history and context of litigation can have a strong and decisive effect on both the result and the legal reasoning leading to that result. This article argues that, whil...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gullifer, L
Format: Journal article
Published: Sweet & Maxwell 2017
_version_ 1797083394369126400
author Gullifer, L
author_facet Gullifer, L
author_sort Gullifer, L
collection OXFORD
description Hard cases make bad law. The history of the Bunkers litigation in the English courts demonstrates, as is often the case, that the history and context of litigation can have a strong and decisive effect on both the result and the legal reasoning leading to that result. This article argues that, while the decision of the Supreme Court in the Bunkers case was understandable given its context and background, it, together with the decision of the Court of Appeal in Caterpillar v Holt, has led to such uncertainty surrounding the use of retention of title (‘ROT’) clauses in inventory financing, that it is time for a reanalysis of the legal position. This article sets out suggested options for that reanalysis, some more radical than others.
first_indexed 2024-03-07T01:41:10Z
format Journal article
id oxford-uuid:96e467b7-8e6c-4d50-a12a-7474565ecc8c
institution University of Oxford
last_indexed 2024-03-07T01:41:10Z
publishDate 2017
publisher Sweet & Maxwell
record_format dspace
spelling oxford-uuid:96e467b7-8e6c-4d50-a12a-7474565ecc8c2022-03-26T23:56:08Z‘Sales’ on Retention of Title terms: is the English law analysis broken?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:96e467b7-8e6c-4d50-a12a-7474565ecc8cSymplectic Elements at OxfordSweet & Maxwell2017Gullifer, LHard cases make bad law. The history of the Bunkers litigation in the English courts demonstrates, as is often the case, that the history and context of litigation can have a strong and decisive effect on both the result and the legal reasoning leading to that result. This article argues that, while the decision of the Supreme Court in the Bunkers case was understandable given its context and background, it, together with the decision of the Court of Appeal in Caterpillar v Holt, has led to such uncertainty surrounding the use of retention of title (‘ROT’) clauses in inventory financing, that it is time for a reanalysis of the legal position. This article sets out suggested options for that reanalysis, some more radical than others.
spellingShingle Gullifer, L
‘Sales’ on Retention of Title terms: is the English law analysis broken?
title ‘Sales’ on Retention of Title terms: is the English law analysis broken?
title_full ‘Sales’ on Retention of Title terms: is the English law analysis broken?
title_fullStr ‘Sales’ on Retention of Title terms: is the English law analysis broken?
title_full_unstemmed ‘Sales’ on Retention of Title terms: is the English law analysis broken?
title_short ‘Sales’ on Retention of Title terms: is the English law analysis broken?
title_sort sales on retention of title terms is the english law analysis broken
work_keys_str_mv AT gulliferl salesonretentionoftitletermsistheenglishlawanalysisbroken