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
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