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Contract: The only way is up?
Siobhan Jones and Clare Arthurs assess the lessons to be learned from Scottish Widows v BGC International The courts cannot rewrite contracts simply because the parties failed to consider a particular eventuality or to provide for a particular circumstance, such as a falling rather than rising rental market.There is no such thing as the perfect …
Cases Referenced
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- Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd & ors [2009] UKHL 38
- Daventry DC v Daventry & District Housing Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 1153
- Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society [1997] UKHL 28
- Scottish Widows Fund & Life Assurance Society v BGC International [2012] EWCA Civ 607
- Swainland Builders Ltd v Freehold Properties Ltd [2002] EWCA Civ 560