Discover how privity in contract law binds signatories, with key exceptions like insurance, warranties, and negligence ...

Privity of contract, in the famous words of Viscount Haldane LC in the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre case, is the principle that ‘only a person who is a party to a contract can sue on it’. For an idea that ...

Historically, courts typically refused to impose liability for negligence in the performance of a contract unless the plaintiff was a party to the contract. Thus, whenever a contractor provided ...