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Contract: I can see clearly now… interpreting contracts post-Rainy Sky
Clare Arthurs and Sebastian Kokelaar assess the implications of a recent decision in the Supreme Court The bank’s interpretation was, arguably, commercially implausible, whereas on the claimants’ interpretation the whole of para 2 could be said to be redundant.In Rainy Sky SA v Kookmin Bank [2011] the Supreme Court revisited the principles governing the construction …
Cases Referenced
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- Barclays Bank plc v HHY Luxembourg SARL [2010] EWCA Civ 1248
- Chalabi & ors v Agha-Jaffar & ors [2011] EWCA Civ 1535
- Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd & ors [2009] UKHL 38
- Enterprise Inns Plc v Palmerston Associates Ltd [2011] EWHC 3165 (Ch)
- Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society [1997] UKHL 28
- Kookmin Bank v Rainy Sky SA & ors [2010] EWCA Civ 582
- Procter & Gamble & ors v Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA & anor [2012] EWHC 498 (Ch)
- Rainy Sky SA v Kookmin Bank [2009] EWHC 2624 (Comm); [2010] EWCA Civ 582; [2011] UKSC 50
- Skanska Rashleigh Weatherfoil Ltd v Somerfield Stores Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 1732