Carrier Tries To Pass The Buck
Datec Electronics Holdings Ltd v United Parcels Services Ltd [2007] UKHL 23
HL
Weekly Law Notes Summary
16 May 2007
When a carrier who operated a parcels delivery service accepted packages for transportation by road to another country, and the undertaking to transport was performed to any extent, then there was a contract of carriage even if the carrier had unknowingly accepted packages which did not conform to its terms and conditions of carriage, and therefore the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road, scheduled to the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965, applied.