How do I stop being a guarantor?

G_M

roger196 wrote: »

Like you I would like to know the names of the parties, year, level of court, jurisdiction and reference for the case mentioned by hallowitch.

Well then rather than hijack the OPs thread by discussing points of law lets wait and see if anyone can provide the details.

My only motivation in raising this was to rebut the claim made by hallowitch that a guarantor agreement could be unilaterally cancelled, which statement he had based on a (to me) very dubious source.

Forums like this, which rely on contributions from all and sundry - the expert, the amateur and the downright ignorant - rely on posters correcting each other and/or offering conflicting views, which the OPs must somehow negotiate to find a 'correct' answer.

If your purpose here is to learn about the law of Precedent, there are excellent books on the subject (and I'd even refer you to Google for some quick sources - though again, beware, like this forum the internet is full of misleading as well as helpful web sources!)

roger196

I think you will find it useful to read Smith, Bailey & Gunn on The Modern English Legal System (5th Edition Published by Sweet & Maxwell, 2007). The fourth edition which I have in front of me, devotes the whole of chapter 7 to Judicial Precedent. You might learn a lot by reading its 50 pages.

G_M

Reading that without knowing the details of the court/case in question would be pointless - except as an intellectual excercise.

There are dozens, no thousands, of good books out there on a whole range of topics. I could learn a lot by reading any one (or all) of them.

If /when I decide I want to, I will.

But thanks for the reference!

Meanwhile I suspect the OP has long-since got bored by this discussion which has really added nothing useful towards his dilemma.