Clifford Chance
Contentious Commentary - July 2015
20 July 2015
The latest edition of "Contentious Commentary", a newsletter that provides a summary of recent developments in litigation. The newsletter is produced by lawyers in the litigation and dispute resolution practice at Clifford Chance.
This edition covers the following key issues:
- Contractual interpretation should heed the parties' words
- LP certificate conclusive even if fraudulent
- Courts can correct obvious mistakes
- "Consummated" in context
- Contract clause rejected as repugnant to the rest
- Contractual notices must be clear
- EU ratifies Convention on Choice of Court Agreements
- The fate of the surplus in solvent insolvencies
- ISDA jurisdiction clause non-exclusive
- Arbitrators' anti-suit orders outside Brussels I
- Clicking to agree to internet terms is binding
- Jurisdictional challenges must be timely
- Champerty doesn't invalidate contractual claim
- Experts must reveal acquaintance with the parties
- FCA identification need not be express
