Common mistake: contracts void for failure of a basic contractual assumption

Great Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd (The Great Peace) [2002] EWCA Civ 1407, [2003] QB 679
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2002/1407.html

Graves v Graves [2007] EWCA Civ 660 [38]–[41] (Thomas LJ)
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2007/660.html

McRae v Commonwealth Disposals Commission (1951) 84 CLR 377, High Court of Australia
https://jade.barnet.com.au/Jade.html#article=188288

Couturier v Hastie (1856) 5 HLC 673
http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1856/J3.html

Bell v Lever Bros [1932] AC 161
http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1931/2.html

Brennan v Bolt Burden [2004] EWCA Civ 1017, [2005] QB 303
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2004/1017.html

Associated Japanese Bank (International) Ltd v Credit du Nord SA [1988] 3 All ER 902, QBD
http://login.westlaw.co.uk/maf/wluk/ext/app/document?docguid=I6834D000E42711DA8FC2A0F0355337E9&crumb-action=reset
http://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/legal/search/enhRunRemoteLink.do?A=0.5260630279111038&service=citation&langcountry=GB&backKey=20_T23314909875&linkInfo=F%23GB%23ALLER%23vol%253%25sel1%251988%25page%25902%25year%251988%25sel2%253%25&ersKey=23_T23314909865

Solle v Butcher [1950] 1 KB 671
http://login.westlaw.co.uk/maf/wluk/ext/app/document?docguid=IB69D5541E42811DA8FC2A0F0355337E9&crumb-action=reset
http://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/legal/search/enhRunRemoteLink.do?A=0.3930621759689171&service=citation&langcountry=GB&backKey=20_T23314905897&linkInfo=F%23GB%23KB%23vol%251%25sel1%251950%25page%25671%25year%251950%25sel2%251%25&ersKey=23_T23314905882

Pitt v Holt [2013] UKSC 26, [2013] 2 AC 108 [115]
http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2013/26.html

Statoil v Louis Dreyfus Energy Services [2008] EWHC 2257 (Comm) [102]–[105] (Aikens J)
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Comm/2008/2257.html

Miller Paving Ltd v B Gottardo Construction Ltd (2007) 285 DLR (4th) 568 (Ontario CA) [26] (Goudge JA)
http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2007/2007onca422/2007onca422.html

Dana Gas PJSC v Dana Gas Sukuk Ltd [2017] EWHC 2928 (Comm), [2018] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 177

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Comm/2017/2928.html

Willers v Joyce [2016] UKSC 44; [2018] AC 843

https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2016/44.html

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