“While he might use differently gendered language today, the statement of Steyn LJ (as he then was) in his judgement in First Energy v Hungarian National Bank that the objective of ‘our’ law of contract is ‘to protect the reasonable expectations of honest men’, can be seen as a perfect encapsulation of decades of case law and doctrine that seem to point in this direction but so often leave this implicit (although much extra-judicial writing is clear on its importance) …” (more)
[Rick Canavan, Undergraduate Laws Blog, 17 February]
First posted 2022-02-18 14:00:41
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