1.   A fundamental breach is one which the courts would consider more serious than an ordinary breach.

2.   Secondly, the courts developed the doctrine of fundamental breach of contract.

3.   The third stage, the trial, makes a fundamental breach with the past.

4.   It is reminiscent of the doctrine of fundamental breach, which has been firmly rejected by the House of Lords.

5.   These cases are examples of fundamental breach.

6.   The courts were generally reluctant to construe an exclusion clause as covering cases of breach of fundamental term or fundamental breach.

7.   It therefore appears that an exclusion clause can apply, even to cases of fundamental breach and breach of fundamental term.