The wild reason woman is suing her boyfriend
A woman from New Zealand is suing her boyfriend after he failed to give her a lift to the airport, causing her to miss her flight.
The woman, who has remained anonymous, asked her partner to pick her up from home and drop her at the airport, but he failed to show up.
As a result, she missed her flight and was forced to travel the following day, missing a concert she had tickets for.
The woman was so enraged that she took her partner of six years to the Disputes Tribunal to try and get him to cover some of the money she’d lost.
The woman also wanted to be compensated because her boyfriend had not stayed at her house while she was away to look after her dogs, which he had agreed to do.
She claimed their agreement had constituted a legally binding agreement and was seeking to be paid travel costs and the cost of putting her dogs in kennels.
Tribunal referee Krysia Cowi said in a statement, “partners, friends and colleagues make social arrangements, but it is unlikely they can be legally enforced unless the parties perform some act that demonstrates an intention that they will be bound by their promises”.
“When friends fail to keep their promises, the other person may suffer a financial consequence but it may be that they cannot be compensated for that loss,” she said.
Cowie said the promises made within the relationship fell short of a contract and dismissed the woman’s case, with the couple breaking up as a result.
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