Privity of contract, in the famous words of Viscount Haldane LC in the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre case, is the principle that ‘only a person who is a party to a contract can sue on it’. For an idea that ...
The best approach for our analysis is to start with the seminal case on privity in the accountants' liability context. Chief Judge Benjamin Cardozo in Ultramares Corporation v. Touche et al. addressed ...