Conditions of qualification of a sudden breaking-off: The Montpellier Court of Appeal interprets the conditions of qualification of a sudden breaking-off of commercial relationships (Supra/Société d’Exploitation des Cheminées Christian)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The interpretation of the legal conditions to which the notion of abrupt termination of established commercial relations is attached is clarified and enriched by the decisions of the judges on the merits of the case, under the careful supervision of the Court of Cassation. In this respect, the Montpellier Court of Appeal's decision of October 6, 2009 is of interest in this respect, in particular to return to the question of the length of the relationship and other circumstances to be taken into account in assessing the length of the notice period, as well as the form that the announcement of the termination should take. The case opposed the companies