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Whether claimant demonstrated that correct choice of law was English law

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 30 2010

In the case of FR Lurssen Werft GmBh & Co V Halle 2010 All ER (D) 159 (Apr), the claimant was a German shipbuilding company

The “endeavours” debate continues

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 8 2011

When parties impose obligations on each other they often try to qualify these obligations by agreeing to only use some form of “endeavours” to achieve it

Endeavours duties when are they too uncertain to enforce?

  • Dentons
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 12 2012

Parties to a contract often later disagree about the scope of a duty to use reasonable or best endeavours to bring about a particular end

Contract badly drafted and somewhat counterintuitive, but enforced

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 16 2011

A contract for the construction and sale of an aircraft by Bombardier provided in clause 8.4 that the buyer could terminate immediately after 90 days of ‘non-excusable delay’ (as defined

Quaint phrases to resolve a negotiation but what do they mean?

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 21 2011

“Reasonable endeavours”, “all reasonable endeavours” and “best endeavours” are quaint phrases unlikely to appear in the tabloid press

General counsel update: 31 May 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, China, European Union, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 31 2012

This is the twenty-ninth in our series of General Counsel Updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

"Best endeavours" can require a party to incur financial loss

  • Buddle Findlay
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  • New Zealand, United Kingdom
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  • May 2 2012

A recent England and Wales Court of Appeal decision (Jet2.com Ltd v Blackpool Airport Ltd 2012 EWCA Civ 417) suggests that a "best endeavours" commitment can impose more onerous obligations than some might expect

Meaning of “all reasonable endeavours”

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 23 2012

The High Court has held that the duty to use “all reasonable endeavours” can require a party to act against its own commercial interests, but made clear that the requirement to act against one’s own commercial interests relates only to matters within a party’s control

What are “best endeavours”?

  • Mason Hayes & Curran
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 29 2012

In Jet2.com v Blackpool Airport Limited, the English Court of Appeal was faced with two questions on a “best endeavours” clause: Is it enforceable? And what does it mean?

The meaning of “best endeavours”

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 25 2012

As we discussed in the last edition of the Update, the High Court’s decision in this case considered the meaning of the phrase “all reasonable endeavours”

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