This blog is co-authored by Danita Mungaroo, a candidate attorney.

In April 2025, the Supreme Court of Appeal decided that a contracting party who repudiated the contract can rely on the terms of an agreement after cancellation of the agreement.


The respondent, an international provider of information technology services concluded agreements with the appellants in

  1. Cancellation as a remedy for breach of contract is only available where the parties have incorporated a right to cancel in their contract, or where the breach is of a sufficiently serious nature to justify cancellation.
  2. The contract may expressly state that if one of the parties breaches terms of the contract or fails to