Clifford Chance
Contentious Commentary - June 2016
13 June 2016
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:
- A contract can be construed literally and purposively
- A required signature is not required
- Two out of three signatories will do
- Notification injunctions: a freezing injunction-lite
- Notification requirements for SPA claims must be strictly adhered to
- A contract for the sale of goods is not within the Sale of Goods Act
- A purpose must be a dominant purpose
- No duty of care owed to a disguised reference seeker
- Britons overseas denied Brexit vote
- A claim for a subsidiary's wrongs can be brought against its parent
