Commercial annual round-up: reviewing 2017 and previewing 2018 [Archived]
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Practice notesCommercial annual round-up: reviewing 2017 and previewing 2018 [Archived]
Published by a LexisNexis Commercial expert
Practice notes
ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained.
This year’s annual round-up reviews some of the most significant developments of 2017 and previews what is on the horizon for 2018. This includes the cases of Wood v Capita Insurance Services Limited [2017] UKSC 24 and Ilkerler Otomotiv Sanayai Ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi v Perkins Engines company Ltd [2017] EWCA Civ 183, among others. Also included are updates on LexisNexis®’s content, including news of exciting developments from the past year and what is coming up in the next 12 months.
Reviewing 2017
Contract law
What happened in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Limited?
The Supreme Court held in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Limited [2017] UKSC 24 that the appellant, which had purchased a company from the respondent, could not recover compensation it subsequently had to pay to the company’s customers who had been affected by mis-selling before it took over the company. The court found that, properly construed, the indemnity clause in the purchase agreement did not apply to the compensation,
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