UK, Contract Interpretation, Jurisdiction

Legal Developments in Construction Law: May 2025

Mayer Brown on 5/20/2025

1. ABSENCE OF NOVATION SINKS ADJUDICATION AWARD AGAINST ASSIGNEE - A contractor obtained an adjudication award against an assignee of its employer, which had gone into administration. But was that assignee the correct...more

Reminder of the Principles of Assignment

BCLP on 4/24/2025

In this Insight, Katharine Tulloch takes a look at the case of Grove Construction (London) Limited v Bagshot Manor Limited [2025] EWHC 591 (TCC) which provides a welcome reminder of the care which should be taken when...more

Standard terms provide resistance against "last shot" doctrine

A&O Shearman on 12/15/2021

While the “last shot” generally wins the contractual “battle of the forms”, the Court of Appeal confirmed that, exceptionally, careful drafting of a party’s standard terms could create an overarching “master agreement”...more

English High Court Tackles Jurisdiction, New York Law Indentures and English Law Intercreditor Agreements

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 5/31/2018

In Part 8 proceedings in Citibank, N.A., London Branch v Oceanwood Opportunities Master Fund, the English High Court grappled with an Indenture governed by New York law and an Intercreditor Agreement (ICA) governed by English...more

UK Litigation in a Post Brexit World

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 7/18/2016

As in so many other areas, the effect of the decision to leave the European Union in the referendum on 23 June 2016 on litigation in England and Wales in still highly uncertain. There are a number of issues that the UK...more

Brexit - Flexit Clauses

K&L Gates LLP on 5/19/2016

There has been plenty of commentary about how the Brexit debate is impacting corporate, commercial, finance and real estate transactions. In the media there have been reports of “market jitters” surrounding the possibility of...more