Chapter 7. Drafting an Irish Frustrated Contracts Act: Lessons from British Columbia
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Abstract
The British Columbia Frustrated Contracts Act is different to the English Law Reform Act 1943. In 1948, the Conference of Commissioners on Uniformity of Legislation in Canada adopted the English Frustrated Contracts Act 1943, with some minor modifications, as a model Act. The 1948 Uniform Frustrated Contracts Act was subsequently adopted in every common law Canadian state except British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan. Section 5 of the British Columbia Act is probably the most important part of the Act, as it provides for the adjustment of the rights and liabilities. The method of restitution contemplated by section 5(2), with the wide definition of a 'benefit' in section 5(1), is fairly straightforward. An example of such a straightforward application of the Act can be seen in KBK No. 138 Ventures Ltd. v. Canada Safeway Ltd. Section 5(4) of the British Columbia Act provides for the apportionment of certain losses incurred. Keywords: British Columbia Frustrated Contracts Act; Canadian state; common law; English Law Reform Act 1943; restitution
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".