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£4,200 website build — five of seven pages, terminated against an offered cure

Specimen · £2,100 deposit in dispute · private-agreements-v1

Fault: claimant 65% · respondent 35%   Outcome: split — £735 of the deposit returns to the client; the studio retains £1,365.

Late part-performance was breach, but terminating same-day against a concrete offer of cure, then keeping and reusing the delivered pages, weighed decisively against the terminating client. The studio's "nothing is refundable" position had no basis in the agreed terms.

Full reasoning
  1. [PA-1] The email thread is the agreement — seven pages in six weeks for £4,200; five pages in seven weeks is late part-performance, not completion.
  2. [PA-3] No forfeiture term was ever agreed — the studio may retain only the value of work delivered and kept.
  3. [PA-2] A concrete, prompt cure was offered and refused the same day; termination outside the agreed route against an offered cure weighs substantially against the terminating party.
  4. [PA-6] The client kept and reused the delivered pages — contemporaneous conduct valuing the work; cosmetic snagging is not breach.
  5. [PA-4] Retention measured against delivered value: 65% of £2,100 retained, £735 returned.

Takeaway: an offered cure refused is the single most outcome-changing fact in small services disputes. Judge this case yourself before reading the venue's reasoning.

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