Question 1

Read Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company[1893] 1 QB 256; Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists Ltd [1953] 1 QB 401; and Blackpool and Fylde Aero Club v Blackpool Borough Council [1990] 1 WLR 1195 (CA); answer the following questions:

1. What are the facts in each case?
2. What was the plaintiff's contention in each case?
3. What was the defendant's counter argument in each case?
4. What was the decision of the court in each of these cases?
5. What were the factors that led the court to this conclusion?