Contract Interpretation in UK Law
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Contract Interpretation Regimes
Freedom of contract requires the integrity of social institutions that ensure the preconditions for private autonomy. This has been largely ignored by a private law doctrine that works on the assum...
- Commercial Common Sense Revisited: Further Developments in Contract Interpretation and Commercial Leasing
- Striking a Balance in Contract Interpretation: The Primacy of the Text
- A New Thing Under the Sun? The Interpretation of Contract and the ICS Decision
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Industrial Conflict and the Nature of Labour Contracts
It is the author's view that industrial conflict arises in the specification and interpretation of the labour contract, whether this be at shop floor or national level....... of Conflict in the Employment Relationship Nature of the Labour Contract The labour contract is notable for both its scope and im-precision. ... may specify institutional arrangements for ad-ministration, interpretation and enforcement of the agree-ment. The sources of incompleteness in the ......
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Article 17 of the Fifa Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players
Article 17 of the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players governs the consequences of a unilateral termination of a professional footballer's employment contract without just cause. .........interpretation of this measure by the Cour t of Arbitration for Sport, and the manner ... Articles13 to 18 of those Regu lations are aimed at securing contract st ability between a player and his club. e Swiss-based Cou rt of ......
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A Purposive Approach to Employment Protection or a Missed Opportunity?
This note discusses how far the Supreme Court judgment in Autoclenz Ltd v Belcher and others provides grounds for a purposive interpretation of the contract of employment for employment protection ......... Ltd v Belcher and others provides grounds for a purposive interpretation of the contract of employment for emplo yment protection purposes, or ......
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Regressing into the right direction: Non-contractual claims in proceedings between contracting parties under Article 7 of the Brussels Ia Regulation
This case comment addresses the interpretation of ‘matters relating to a contract’ in the EU law of civil jurisdiction, contained in the Brussels Ia Regulation. Recently, this topic received renewe......... Michiel Poesen* Abstract This case comment addresses the interpretation of ‘matters relating to a contract’ in the EU law of civil ......
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Using Private‐Public Linkages to Regulate Environmental Conflicts: The Case of International Construction Contracts
The article takes a pluralistic view of the ‘trade‐environment’ conflict by exploring one of the settings of this conflict: the lex constructionis– international construction law. It seeks to unrav......... alternative contractual model, which depicts the construc- tion contract as a semi-political mechanism, rather than a private tool. This conceptual ... conclusions – in particular, the political-constitutional interpretation of the contract and the critique of the public/private dichotomy (see ......
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Rent reviews and unforeseen circumstances
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the English court's approach to the interpretation of rent review provisions in circumstances where the words used by the parties may produce a commercially unfo......... paper aims to examine the English court’s approach to the interpretation of rentreview provisions in circumstances where the words used by the ...The court cannotrewrite a contract where the parties simply failed to foresee or to provide for unexpected ......
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