On 11 May, the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 came fully into force. The Act radically alters the rule of ‘privity of contract’ that exists under English law – the old rule being that only a person who is a party to a contract can sue or be sued on it.

Privity of contract
As any law school graduate will remember, the rationale for the rule of privity of contract was:

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