{"id":732,"date":"2020-05-09T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T10:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/breach-of-contract-third-party-liability-simplified-by-the-cour-de-cassation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:24:23","slug":"breach-of-contract-third-party-liability-simplified-by-the-cour-de-cassation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/breach-of-contract-third-party-liability-simplified-by-the-cour-de-cassation\/","title":{"rendered":"Breach of contract, third-party liability simplified by the Cour de Cassation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published on IBA Litigation Newsletter, May 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was long standing legal uncertainty regarding the possibility for third parties to a contract to claim tortious liability for breach of contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a 2020 ruling, the plenary session of the Court of Cassation laid the groundwork for the admissibility of tort claims brought by third parties against a party to a contract, in the event that such breach causes them damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"link-arrow-wrapper\">\n    <a class=\"link-arrow-btn inline-flex items-center gap-4 group contact-button-2lines not-prose\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ibanet.org\/article\/F0F05246-5B40-40F8-803F-73A4C022F492\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n    <span class=\"w-16 h-16 bg-primary text-white rounded-full flex items-center justify-center group-hover:bg-primary\/80 transition-colors duration-300 shrink-0\">\n        <span class=\"material-symbols-outlined text-3xl\">arrow_forward<\/span>\n    <\/span>\n    <div class=\"link-arrow-texts\">\n                    <span class=\"link-arrow-label block text-sm font-bold uppercase tracking-widest text-slate-400\">\n                Read the article            <\/span>\n                            <span class=\"link-arrow-main block text-xl font-display font-semibold text-slate-900 group-hover:text-primary transition-colors\">\n                ibanet.org            <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on IBA Litigation Newsletter, May 2020 There was long standing legal uncertainty regarding the possibility for third parties to a contract to claim tortious liability for breach of contract&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial-litigation","category-civil-litigation","category-commercial-advisory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}