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Severance Clauses: Do we need them?
Laurie Heller discusses the legal principles relating to severance clauses and their effectiveness in practice ‘It is submitted that a severance provision of general application will seldom have any practical effect as being too abstract, and the courts will take little notice of it in applying general principles.’Most practitioners will be familiar with the typical …
Cases Referenced
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- Alec Lobb (Garages) Ltd v Total Oil (Great Britain) Ltd [1983] 1 WLR 87; [1984] EWCA Civ 2
- Amoco Australia Pty Ltd v Rocca Bros Motor Engineering Co Pty Ltd [1975] AC 561
- Goodinson v Goodinson [1954] 2 QB 118
- Mason v Provident Clothing & Supply Co Ltd [1913] AC 724