Philips Electronique Grand Public SA v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1995
Date1995
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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  • Astra Asset Management UK v The Co-operative Bank Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 10 April 2019
    ...contract”; ii) cited (at §19) Sir Thomas Bingham MR's statement in Philips Electronique Grand Public SA v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd [1995] EMLR 472, 482 that: “The question of whether a term should be implied, and if so what, almost inevitably arises after a crisis has been reached in th......
  • Mogens Alex Bastholm v Peveril Securities (Dalton Park Retail) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 3 March 2023
    ...six comments on the summary given by Lord Simon in the BP Refinery case 180 CLR 266, 283 as extended by Bingham MR in the Philips case [1995] EMLR 472 and exemplified in The APJ Priti [1987] 2 Lloyds Rep 37. First, in Equitable Life Assurance Society v Hyman [2002] 1 AC 408, 459, Lord S......
  • AET Inc. Ltd v Arcadia Petroleum Ltd (The Eagle Valencia)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 8 October 2009
    ...Thomas Bingham MR, giving the judgment of this court, which also comprised Stuart-Smith and Leggatt LJJ, in Phelps Electronique Grand Public SA v British Sky Broadcasting Limited [1995] EMLR 472. 17. Rix LJ quoted an extensive passage at pages 480 to 482 in Phelps. So I will not do the same......
  • Sembcorp Marine Ltd v PPL Holdings Pte Ltd and another and another appeal
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 25 July 2013
    ...Ed, 2011) (“McMeel”) at p 315. Similarly, Sir Thomas Bingham MR in Philips Electronique Grand Public SA v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd [1995] EMLR 472 (“Philips Electronique”) observed (at 481): The courts’ usual role in contractual interpretation is, by resolving ambiguities or reconciling......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Contractual interpretation disputes from the Trustee's perspective: The saga continues
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • 23 June 2016
    ...and to the reservations expressed by Bingham MR in Philips Electronique Grand Public SA v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd ("Philips") [1995] EMLR 472, 481, where Bingham MR noted that it may well be doubtful whether an omission was the result of the parties' oversight or of their deliberate de......
3 books & journal articles
  • CONTRACT LAW IN COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES: UNIFORMITY OR DIVERGENCE?
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December 2019
    • 1 December 2019
    ...4 SLR 1267 at [36]. 45 Foo Jong Peng v Phua Kiah Mai [2012] 4 SLR 1267 at [36]. 46 [2009] EWCA Civ 531; [2010] 1 All ER (Comm) 1. 47 [1995] EMLR 472 481. 48 See Paul S Davies, “Recent Developments in the Law of Implied Terms” [2010] LMCLQ 140 at 146, citing Mediterranean Salvage & Towage Lt......
  • Interpretation of Contracts in Commercial Law: Competing Principles
    • Ireland
    • Trinity College Law Review No. XI-2008, January 2008
    • 1 January 2008
    ...1990), at 12. 9 Ibid. 60 BP Refinery (Westernport) Pty Ltd v Shire of Hastings (1978) ALJR 20, at 26. 61 (1978) ALJR 20 at 26. 62 [1995] EMLR 472. 63 McKendrick, note 57, at 207. 64 Ibid, at 208. 65 [2007] EWHC 2933; [2007] All ER 171. [Vol. I11 2008] Interpretation of Contracts Perspective......
  • CONTROLLING FAIRNESS IN STANDARD FORM CONTRACTS: WHAT CAN COURTS DO, AND WHAT SHOULD THEY DO?
    • Canada
    • University of British Columbia Law Review Vol. 55 No. 2, November 2022
    • 1 November 2022
    ...(Jersey) Ltd & Anor, [2015] UKSC 72 at para 27. (32) See Philips Electronique Grand Public SA v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd, [1995] EMLR 472 at (33) Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking, [1971] 2 QB 163, [1971] 1 All ER 686. (34) Tilden Rent-a-Car Co v Clendenning, [1978] 83 DLR (3d) 400, 18 O......

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