{"id":176625,"date":"2022-10-07T21:45:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T20:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/?p=176625"},"modified":"2022-10-17T01:32:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T00:32:36","slug":"options-breach-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/commercial-contracts\/options-breach-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Has Breached My Contract. What Are My Options in England?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are likely to enter into many business contracts when running your business. Sometimes a legally binding agreement is in written terms, such as a mobile phone agreement, and others are automatic such as paying for an item in a shop. Most contracts your business enters into will be performed by each contracting party without any problems, but in other cases, a party may breach the contractual terms. This may be a minor or fundamental breach, and you will have to decide if the <a href=\"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/commercial-contracts\/how-do-i-terminate-contract-for-breach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contract can survive<\/a> the breaching party&#8217;s action. This article will explain your options, such as taking legal action, where there has been a breach of one of your business contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do I Have to Sue?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where there has been a breach of one of your business contracts, avoid thinking that your only option is to sue the other party. This is because <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/disputes-litigation\/damages-breach-of-contract\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">legal action<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which could result in a court hearing, can be:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lengthy;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">costly; and&nbsp;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stressful.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, there are a few options available for you to tr<\/span>y <em>before <\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">committing to a legal claim for breach of contract against another party.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1. Informal Contact&nbsp;<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/hm-courts-and-tribunals-service\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before taking legal action<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, it is helpful to try and speak with the other party to discuss the breach of contract.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An Example<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagine you run an online business, selling greeting cards. Your customers select their card, type out their personalised text, and you print and send the card to the nominated recipient for them. Your business orders 10,000 envelopes monthly from an envelope supplier to achieve this.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, in one month, the supplier supplied only 2,000 envelopes and did not provide a reason for the shortfall. Your business is the innocent party here: it paid for goods it did not receive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you reach out to them, you may find that they are apologetic and offer reasons for their action, such as:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">their main machine caught fire and took two weeks to repair, but it is now back in action; or<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the principal site engineer could not maintain the machinery as usual because of a sudden family bereavement, so the company had to limit their production to protect against malfunctions.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In both scenarios, the reasons are relatively minor and temporary. If the owner promises to make up the difference and deliver 18,000 envelopes next month, you may treat it as a fairly innocent one-off breach and avoid taking things further.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, suppose the owner mentioned a longer-term issue, such as a broken machine needing to be replaced by another machine that will not arrive for three months and, therefore, has limited capacity. 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Consider a Legal Claim<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you consider termination of a business contract, you should get legal advice on whether it is in your best interests.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the most critical factors is how much the compensatory damages are likely to amount to and how much it may cost in legal fees to take the other party to court. Importantly, you want to estimate whether a legal claim is commercially viable, meaning it will not cost more than the financial remedy available to bring the claim. In the example given earlier, the actual loss could be the number of orders the business needs to cancel because it does not have the envelopes to fulfil those orders quickly, which would significantly affect the company&#8217;s profit margins.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where the breach of contract causes actual financial harm to your business to the extent that it stops it from working effectively, you could gain a significant sum in damages, making legal action a beneficial option. However, where the breach results in small-scale interruption to your business, legal action is not advisable, and you should consider other alternatives explored above.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If another party breaches a contract with your business, there are steps you can take short of pursuing legal action. 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