Content of the Contract

Question 0

AG of Belize v Belize Telecom [2009] UKPC 10

Answer 0

Cannot add to or improve contracts. Confirms test in Investors Compensation Scheme

Question 1

Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society [1998] 1 WLR 896

Answer 1

Interpretation:

(1) What a reasonable person with all the background knowledge reasonably available at the time would take it to mean
(2) Read in the context of absolutely everything that would effect how the language would be read by a reasonable man
(3) Ignore subjective intent
(4) Dictionary and grammatical meaning
(5) The law does not require judges to arbitrate an intention that the parties clearly would not have had