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Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly

VALIDITY OF A NOTICE SERVED UNDER CONTRACTUAL RIGHTS

Ebenezer Adodo*

RESERVED
Ener-G Holdings v Hormell
A large class of commercial contracts often contain a clause under which a party claiming exercise of certain rights reserved must give a notice of it to the other party. Such notices frequently offer equally matched competing interpretations, thereby rendering a clear-cut decision between the alternative constructions difficult to reach. A serious difficulty of this sort arose in the recent case of Ener-G Holdings Plc v Hormell 1 and merits careful


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