Britoil Plc v Hunt Overseas Oil Inc.

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeGlidewell,Hoffmann,Hobhouse L JJ
Judgment Date25 May 1994
Date25 May 1994
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)

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    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 29 January 2010
    ...AC 196, George Cohen Sons & Co Ltd v Docks and Inland Waterways Executive (1950) 84 Lloyds Rep 97, Britoil plc v Hunt Overseas Oil Inc [1994] CLC 561 , Cambridge Antibody Technology Ltd v Abbott Biotechnology Ltd [2004] EWHC 2974 (Pat) [2005] FSR 590, Roberts (A) & Co Ltd v Leicestershire C......
  • Ted Baker Plc and Another v AXA Insurance UK Plc and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 25 May 2012
    ...the instrument does not reflect what the parties agreed, not merely what they or one of them thought that it meant." per Hoffmann, LJ, in Britoil v Hunt, to which I refer below." I respectfully agree with those observations. 123 As to the standard of proof, I would refer to the observations......
  • Pt Berlian Laju Tanker Tbk and another v Nuse Shipping Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 16 June 2008
    ...the instrument does not reflect what the parties agreed, not merely what they or one of them thought that it meant.” per Hoffmann, LJ, in Britoil v Hunt, to which I refer below. 49 The Buyers are not entitled to rectification unless they establish that the MOA was intended by the parties to......
  • Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd and another
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 1 July 2009
    ...of ordinary English." 63 As against these authorities, there are two cases upon which Mr Miles relied. The first is Britoil plc v Hunt Overseas Oil Inc [1994] CLC 561, in which the Court of Appeal by a majority (Glidewell and Hobhouse LJJ, Hoffmann LJ dissenting) refused to rectify an agree......
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