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The Test of Fundamentality in Anticipatory Breach Cases

2010· article· en· W2413942910 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Qiao Liu

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal principles and applications
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBreach of contractTest (biology)LawAppealContext (archaeology)Political sciencePsychologyDamagesHistory
DOInot available

Abstract

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In Canada, as in England, the courts when confronted with the task of determining the existence of an anticipatory breach usually apply an intention-based test. The party who allegedly commits an anticipatory breach must be shown to have objectively evinced an intention not to be boundby the contract. Accordingly, anticipatory breach is said to be distinguishable from “fundamental breach,” a type of breach defined by Diplock L.J. (as he then was) as having such a consequence of depriving the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit of the contract as to entitle that party to terminate the contract. An anticipatory breach does not necessarily produce such a consequence and, therefore, does not necessarily constitute a fundamental breach. On the other hand, anticipatory breach is also sometimes viewed as a variantonfundamental breach. According to this latter view, an anticipatory breach is always a fundamental breach, while a fundamental breach may be either an actual or anticipatory breach. Anticipatory breach is thus embraced by the concept of fundamental breach. In the most recent case of Spirent Communications of Ottawa Ltd. v. Quake Technologies (Canada) Inc., the Court of Appeal for Ontario explicitly endorsed the above latter view. The decision confirmed the inextricable tie between anticipatory breach and fundamental breach. It lent great support to the proposition, advanced in the context of English law, that an anticipatory breach invariably foreshadowed a prospective fundamental breach and a “test of fundamentality” was essential to its establishment. However, the decision failed to sever the orthodox intention-based test from the test of fundamentality, thereby creating potential problems for a future judicial determination of an anticipatory breach.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.018
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.046
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.093

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0180.046
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.032
Scholarly communication0.0100.017
Open science0.0040.010
Research integrity0.0150.019
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.340
Teacher spread0.320 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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