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Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v New Garage & Motor Co Ltd [1915] AC 79, is a leading case on penalty clauses (bad) and liquidated damages clauses (good).
Lord Dunedin had suggested the following often quoted factors:
- if the sum stipulated for is “extravagant” and “unconscionable” in amount in comparison with the greatest loss that could conceivably be proved to have followed from the breach.
- if the breach consisted only in the non-payment of money and the provision provided for the payment of a larger sum.
- if the same sum is payable in a number of events of varying gravity (this is a rebuttable presumption).
- A provision is not penal by reason only of the impossibility of precisely pre-estimating the true loss.
Glossed over more recently by ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis and Cavendish Square Holdings v El Makdessi, which seem better fit for the kinder, gentler world we now inhabit.