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MacDonald Dickens & Macklin v Costello
MacDonald Dickens & Macklin v Costello [2011] EWCA Civ 930; [2012] QB 244
Key Principle
A claimant who has rendered services under a contract with a third party (typically a company) cannot generally recover in unjust enrichment against another person who benefited from those services, because to allow the claim would undermine and circumvent the contractual allocation of risk the parties chose.
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