Gibson V Manchester City Council
- Gibson V Manchester City Council 1979
- Gibson V Manchester City Council
- Gibson V Manchester City Council
Gibson V Manchester City Council 1979
Gibson v Manchester City Council1979 1 All ER 972House of LordsMr Gibson wished to purchase his council house from the Council, who sent him a letter which read:'. Refer to your request for details of the cost of buying your Council house.
The Corporation may be prepared to sell the house to you at the purchase price of £2,180.If you wish to pay off some of the purchase price at the start and therefore require a mortgage for less than the amount quoted above, the monthly instalment will change; in these circumstances, I will supply new figures on request. The above repayment figures apply so long as the interest rate charged on home loans is 8 1/2%. The interest rate will be subject to variation by the Corporation after giving not less than three months ' written notice, and if it changes, there will be an adjustment to the monthly instalment payable. This letter should not be regarded as a firm offer of a mortgage.If you would like to make formal application to buy your Council house, please complete the enclosed application form and return it to me as soon as possible. 'Mr Gibson sent in an application and stated that he wished to buy the house. The issue before the House of Lords was whether the Council's letter amounted to an offer.Lord Diplock. The only question in the appeal is of a kind with which the courts are very familiar.
Gibson V Manchester City Council
- Mar 8, 1979 - Gibson v Manchester City Council 1979 UKHL 6 (08 March 1979) 1 of 11. 1/5/2011 12:06 PM.
- Apr 6, 2019 - Gibson v Manchester City Council: HL 8 Mar 1979. Corporation to sell the house to Mr. Gibson and an acceptance of that offer by Mr.
Gibson V Manchester City Council
Gibson v Manchester City Council Facts Conservative ruling party of Manchester City Council ha d a policy of selling council houses to tenants.-After the el ections, the Labour P arty gained control of the council, repealing selling policy.The Labor Party however agrees to honor all previous agreements.-Gibson was in the negotiating stage and gave a letter from council that they “may be.
It is whether in the correspondence between the parties there can be found a legally enforceable contract for the sale by the Manchester Corporation to Mr Gibson of the dwelling-house of which he was the occupying tenant at the relevant time in 1971.
Important Paras. My Lords, there may be certain types of contract, though I think they areexceptional, which do not fit easily into the normal analysis of a contractas being constituted by offer and acceptance; but a contract alleged to havebeen made by an exchange of correspondence between the parties in whichthe successive communications other than the first are in reply to oneanother, is not one of these. I can see no reason in the instant case fordeparting from the conventional approach of looking at the handful ofdocuments relied upon as constituting the contract sued upon and seeingwhether upon their true construction there is to be found in them a con-tractual offer by the corporation to sell the house to Mr. Gibson and anacceptance of that offer by Mr. I venture to think that it was bydeparting from this conventional approach that the majority of the Courtof Appeal was led into error. Go to. HOUSE OF LORDS Go to.