P - Parties
11/6/20
PURBRICK v CRUZ [2020] EWHC 1465 (QB)
Considers principles to be applied on an application to discharge a freezing injunction for material non-disclosure [56], and in assessing whether the claimant had a good arguable use that the defendant was a party to a contract [83].
1/6/20
GREGOR FRISKEN LTD v CARL [2020] EWHC 1385 (Comm)
Considers when a person who signs a contract in his own name is regarded as contracting personally even if he is an agent [54], the liability of an agent for an unidentified principal [95], and the inadmissibility of extrinsic evidence [139].
29/5/20
MV PROMOTIONS LTD v TELEGRAPH MEDIA GROUP LTD [2020] EWHC 1357 (Ch)
Consider principles of contractual interpretation especially where there is uncertainty over the identity of a party [16-17], the correction of mistakes by construction [18] and rectification [34]. On the facts the court was satisfied that a rectifiable mistake had been made identifying the counter-party but in the exercise of the court’s discretion, the court declined to order rectification.
2/5/13
HAMID v FRANCIS BRADSHAW PARTNERSHIP [2013] EWCA Civ 470
Summarises principles to be applied cases where the identity of a contracting party is in issue [57]. A contract signed by an individual below a trading name used by a company of which he was a director, bound that individual personally where the other party did not know the trading name was used by the company and the individual had not made it plain that the contract did not bind him personally.