Contract Interpretation

The decisions of the Supreme Court in the cases of Rainy Sky v Kookmin [2011] UKSC 50; Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36 and Wood v Capita [2017] UKSC 24 remain the leading authorities on contract interpretation. This webinar summarises the key principles established in those cases and then reviews a series of more recent cases where they have been applied by the courts in a variety of different contexts.

Topics will include:

• interpretation of provisions in a share purchase agreement
• interpretation of a provision in a standard form conditional fee agreement
• interpretation of provisions contained in an Enforcement Order made pursuant to s. 217 of the Enterprise Act 2002
• determination of the nature of a term – condition v innominate