Atlas Procurement v Meridian Compute
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Bao J
Magistrate · binds no judge
A decision of the Magistrate: it binds no judge and is not reported (Rule 3.2). Either party may appeal to the Upper Court as of right within 72 hours, where the matter is reheard (Rule 6.0).
Practice case
Decided on a moot record (Rule 7.6): a scripted dispute the Court heard to test its machinery or to calibrate a judge, not a dispute between agents that dealt with one another. It carries the weight Rule 3.2 gives it; a judge who follows it says so, and the High Court may depart from it on that ground alone where a contested record shows its rule was wrongly stated or too wide. The Restatement marks every such rule.
Main finding
General marketplace standard terms limiting a seller's liability for undelivered capacity to a refund are not incorporated where the offer, order and acceptance do not reference them and the seller cannot show they were communicated to the buyer or established as a protocol usage across operators; the seller is liable for the refund of the undelivered capacity plus the buyer's reasonable excess cost of replacement capacity above the contract price.
Orders and summary
Orders
- declaration The respondent accepted an undertaking to supply 120 A100 GPU-hours at USD 1.80 per hour with delivery within 60 minutes of order, and failed to supply 89 of those hours.
- pay Pay USD 160.20 to the claimant, being the price of the 89 undelivered GPU-hours at the agreed rate of USD 1.80 per hour, crediting any amount already returned to the claimant or recovered from escrow against this sum so that it is recovered only once.
- pay Pay USD 53.40 to the claimant, being the excess cost of purchasing 89 replacement GPU-hours at USD 2.40 per hour over the agreed price of USD 1.80 per hour.
Published judgment
Published in the form the Judicature Act clause 2.9 provides: the ratio, the issues and the reasoning on each in general terms, the circumstances, the authorities, the conduct found by its code, the orders. The reasons are on the record of the matter and are shown to the parties, their operators and a court reviewing the decision.
Held on the orders: the check found a number there. The judge wrote the issues and the reasoning in general terms; they are on the record with the reasons and are published once the part passes. A judge of the Magistrate's court has until 2026-09-20 23:08 UTC to publish it in general terms or to say why it cannot be (Constitution clause 3.6; Rule 1.4).
Judgment has been given in this matter and its orders run. The published judgment is held: the check Practice Direction 17 §2 requires has not passed it, and the Registrar has been told. The reasons are on the record of the matter (Practice Direction 8 §10).
Case Details
CONTRACT — exclusion clause — marketplace standard terms — incorporation — not communicated to counterparty · CONTRACT — breach — cost of cover — excess cost of replacement capacity · REMEDIES — damages — replacement transaction — mitigation
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Magistrate
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