In this video Paul Darling QC, from Keating Chambers, discusses the characteristics of contractual termination and common law repudiation, and the differences between them.

Topics include:

How the courts generally approach termination clauses
Do contractual termination & common law termination coexist?
How to decide if a breach is repudiatory
The position if a party chooses not to accept a repudiatory breach
Termination for convenience clauses
Problems with enforcing termination for convenience clauses

Cases referenced:

Rice (t/a Garden Guardian) v Great Yarmouth BC [2003] T.C.L.R. 1
Stocznia Gdynia SA v Gearbulk Holdings Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 75
Valilas v Januzaj [2014] EWCA Civ 436

You can watch the fulllength version of this video here: https://uk.practicallaw.com/w0120986