- Applied — Duchess of Bedford House RTM Company Limited & Ors v Campden Hill Gate Limited 2023-12-08
“…ry to apply the well-known principles which are set out in a series of cases including Arnold v Britton [2015] AC 1619 and Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] AC 1173. It is settled law that the court’s task is to ascertain the objective meaning of the language which the parties have chosen to express their agreement and to …”
- Cited — DnaNudge Limited v Ventura Capital GP Limited 2023-10-09
“…gment in Arnold at [77] and reiterated by him with the approval of the other members of the Supreme Court (including Lord Neuberger) in Wood v Capita Insurance [2017] AC 1173 (“Wood”) at [12].…”
- Cited — Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment Inc v British Telecommunications PLC 2023-04-26
“…min Bank [2011] UKSC 50; [2011] 1 WLR 2900, Arnold v Britton and others [2015] UKSC 36; [2015] AC 1619 and Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24; [2017] AC 1173.…”
- Cited — Yee Shi Yin v 174 Law Solicitors Limited 2023-01-13
“… meaning of the language which the parties have chosen to express their agreement” (to quote Lord Hodge in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173, at paragraph 10) or, in the words of Lord Hoffmann in Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society [1998] 1 WLR 896 at 912, “ascertainme…”
- Explained — MARANELLO ROSSO LIMITED v LOHOMIJ BV 2022-12-21
“… accordance with the principles in Arnold v Britton [2015] AC 1619. Those principles were endorsed by the Supreme Court in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] AC 1173. As Lord Hodge explained at [10] of his judgment, the court must ascertain the objective meaning of the language which the parties have used and in doing so ‘m…”
- Cited — MUR Shipping BV v RTI Ltd. 2022-10-27
“… meaning of the language which the parties have chosen to express their agreement” (to quote Lord Hodge in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173, at paragraph 10) or, in the words of Lord Hoffmann in Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society [1998] 1 WLR 896 at 912, “ascertainme…”
- Cited — Abdulrahman Bin Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al-Subaihi & Anor. v Mishal Maan Al-Sanea 2022-10-20
“…] UKSC 50; [2011] 1 WLR 2900 (“Rainy Sky”); Arnold v Britton and others [2015] UKSC 36; [2015] AC 1619 and Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24; [2017] AC 1173 (“Wood v Capita”).…”
- Followed — Allan John Doyle v M&D Foundation & Building Services Limited 2022-07-08
“…hat the principles applicable to interpretation of contractual provisions were summarised by Lord Hodge in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173 as follows:…”
- Approved — Mostyn House Estate Management Company Limited v Barry Youde & Ors. 2022-07-06
“…n dispute before us. Those central principles can be found in Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36, [2015] AC 1619, Wood v Capita Insurance Services [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173 and Rainy Sky v Kookmin Bank [2011] UKSC 90, [2011] 1 WLR 2900 to the extent that it is approved in those cases. The principles are now very well known. A conv…”
- Cited — Robert Nicholas Jason Scholfield & Anor. v Matthew David Smith & Anor. 2022-06-21
“…y SA v Kookmin Bank [2011] UKSC 50, [2011] 1 WLR 2900, Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36, [2015] AC 1619 and Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173 (“Wood”). It can be seen from the authorities that the process involves assessment of “the objective meaning of the language which the parties have chosen to e…”
- Cited — AIG Europe SA (formerly AIG Europe Ltd) & Ors. v John Wood Group Plc & Anor. 2022-06-10
“…iterate the principles for construing contracts, set out in a series of Supreme Court cases culminating in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173. They are well known. I propose to begin with the meaning of the PPJC. I would be inclined to accept that if there is a conflict between the PPJC and the later…”
- Cited — ABN Amro Bank N.V. v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Plc & Ors. 2021-12-02
“…o the approach identified in Rainy Sky v. Kookmin Bank[2011] UKSC 50; [2011] 1 W.L.R 2900 (Rainy Sky) and Wood v. Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24; [2017] AC 1173 (Wood v. Capita), concluding that commercial considerations did not tell against ABN Amro’s interpretation. That would have ignored the fact that the Policy wa…”
- Cited — Hercultio Maritime Limited & Ors. v Gunvor International BV & Ors. 2021-12-01
“…ppropriate of the commercial background as it would have been understood by both parties (cf. cases such as Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd[2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173). The process of construing a bill of lading is in principle no different from that of any other contract, although it needs to take account of the particular …”
- Cited — Association of Chartered Certified Accountants v Makanju Awodola 2021-11-08
“…[2017] AC 1173 at paragraphs 10-13.…”
- Cited — Derhalli v Derhalli 2021-02-02
“…Hoffmann in Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd [2009] 1 AC 110, which principles were more recently distilled in Wood v Capital Insurances Ltd [2017] UKSC 4, [2017] AC 1173 by Lord Hodge at paragraph 10 -15. In saying this I do not seek to suggest that the fact that the husband was the sole beneficial owner of the property and tha…”
- Cited — Fishbourne Developments Ltd v Stephens 2020-12-16
“…[2017] AC 1173…”
- Cited — Abc Electrification Ltd v Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd 2020-12-04
“…min Bank [2011] UKSC 50; [2011] 1 WLR 2900; Arnold v Britton and others [2015] UKSC 36; [2015] AC 1619 and Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24; [2017] AC 1173.…”
- Cited — British Gas Trading Ltd v Shell UK Ltd & Anor 2020-12-04
“… not in dispute. The principles have been re-stated in Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36, [2015] AC 1619 and Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173 and need not be repeated here. In short, the court’s task is to ascertain the objective meaning of the contract, read as a whole in the light of the background…”
- Cited — Apache North Sea Ltd v Euroil Exploration Ltd & Anor 2020-10-30
“…min Bank [2011] UKSC 50; [2011] 1 WLR 2900; Arnold v Britton and others [2015] UKSC 36; [2015] AC 1619 and Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24; [2017] AC 1173. No issue is taken with the Judge's summary of the law at [13] and [14] of the Judgment.…”
- Cited — Primus International Holding Company & Ors v Triumph Controls - UK Ltd & Anor 2020-09-22
“…36, [2015] AC 1619; and Wood v Capita Insurance Services Limited [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173. Those principles were adopted by the judge and no point arises on this appeal as to any alleged error of law in the judge’s approach to the construction of th…”
- Cited — Hancock v Promontoria (Chestnut) Ltd 2020-07-14
“…arties at or before the time when the contract was made, but excluding evidence of prior negotiations: see Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173, at [8] to [15] per Lord Hodge JSC (with whose judgment the other members of the Supreme Court agreed). As Lord Hodge put it at [10], with my emphasis of the w…”
- Cited — Barings (UK) Ltd v Deutsche Trustee Company Ltd & Ors (Rev 1) 2020-04-09
“…[2009] UKSC 2, [2010] 1 All ER 571, Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36, [2015] AC 1619, and Wood v Capita Insurance Services Limited [2017] UKSC 244, [2017] AC 1173.…”
- Cited — Teesside Gas Transportation Ltd v Cats North Sea Ltd & Ors 2020-04-07
“…n now be taken as settled. They have been re-stated in Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36, [2015] AC 1619 and Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173 and need not be repeated here.…”
- Cited — James v Hertsmere Borough Council 2020-04-02
“…tification. Questions of contractual interpretation are to be approached in accordance with the statement of Lord Hodge in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] AC 1173:…”
- Cited — Butler v Bankside Commercial Ltd 2020-02-27
“…t; in other cases to the context. For these propositions he relies on the decision of the Supreme Court in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173.…”
- Cited — Filatona Trading Ltd & Anor v Navigator Equities Ltd & Ors 2020-02-06
“…ion. Lord Hodge (with whom the other members of the Supreme Court agreed) expressed an analogous point in Wood v. Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24; [2017] AC 1173 at [12]:…”
- Cited — First National Trustco (UK) Ltd & Anor v McQuitty & Ors 2020-02-05
“…[2017] AC 1173 per Lord Hodge at [10-15]…”
- Followed — Blackstar Advisors Ltd v Cheyne Capital International Ltd & Anor 2019-12-12
“…definitions are not obviously inapt or contrary to “business common sense” (for the significance of which, see Wood v Capita Insurance Services [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173, at paragraphs 10-14). It follows that Blackstar’s fee entitlement will have come to an end on 31 March 2014 unless HDFP’s investment pursuant to the “LuxCo…”
- Cited — Ho v Adelekun 2019-11-19
“…19 April 2017. That involves assessment of the “objective meaning of the language” (to quote Lord Hodge in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173, at paragraph 10) or, in the words of Lord Hoffmann in Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society [1998] 1 WLR 896 at 912, “ascertainme…”
- Cited — JP Morgan Chase Bank NA v The Federal Republic of Nigeria 2019-10-08
“… from the well-known line of authority: Rainy Sky SA v Kookmin Bank [2011] 1 WLR 2900, Arnold v Britton [2015] AC 1619 and Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] AC 1173. The relevance of his discussion in paragraphs 33 and 34 of the present status of the contra proferentem rule is expressly limited by him to the interpretation…”
- Cited — Stobart Group Ltd & Anor v Stobart & Anor (Rev 1) 2019-07-31
“…Lord Hodge’s more recent synthesis of the proper approach to the construction of contracts in Wood v. Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24; [2017] AC 1173 at [10], with which the other members of the Supreme Court agreed, is to like effect:…”
- Cited — Ark Shipping Company LLC v Silverburn Shipping (IOM) Ltd 2019-07-10
“…oo well travelled area, it suffices to adopt (with respect) Lord Hodge’s synthesis as to interpretation in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24; [2017] AC 1173, at [10] – [15]:…”
- Cited — Classic Maritime Inc v Limbungan Makmur SDN BHD & Anor 2019-06-27
“…d 2 runs counter to the modern iterative approach to questions of construction encouraged by cases such as Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173, which requires the court to check its provisional conclusions against the terms of the contract as a whole and the commercial consequences of the proposed con…”
- Cited — Granada UK Rental & Retail Ltd & Ors v The Pensions Regulator 2019-06-20
“…adopt an interpretation producing that result. In that connection, Mr Railton referred us to passages from Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173 in which Lord Hodge spoke of the Court giving “more or less weight to elements of the wider context” “depending on the nature, formality and quality of draftin…”
- Considered — Minera Las Bambas SA & Anor v Glencore Queensland Ltd & Ors 2019-06-14
“…[2017] AC 1173 at paras 10-14. In short, the court’s task is to ascertain the objective meaning of the relevant contractual language. This requires the court to consider the …”
- Cited — BNP Paribas SA v Trattamento Rifiuti Metropolitani SPA (Rev 1) 2019-05-07
“… of a commercial contract the court will look at the language and investigate the commercial consequences: Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24; [2017] AC 1173 at [8]-[15], per Lord Hodge (judgment at [28]).…”
- Cited — Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd (FKA Blackstone (South Wales) Ltd) v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council 2019-03-28
“… this proposition was cited with approval in Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36; [2015] AC 1619, para 15, and Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24; [2017] AC 1173, para 10. It is an approach which, as Lord Wilberforce noted, can be traced back at least to Lord Blackburn’s judgment in River Wear Commissioners v Adamson (1…”
- Cited — Triple Point Technology, Inc v PTT Public Company Ltd 2019-03-05
“…een restated by the Supreme Court on several occasions in recent years. The most recent distillation is in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24; [2017] AC 1173 at [10] to [14]. I bear those principles in mind, but will not extend this judgment by setting them out.…”
- Cited — Elite Property Holdings Ltd & Anor v Barclays Bank Plc 2019-02-21
“… accordance with the principles in Arnold v Britton [2015] AC 1619. Those principles were endorsed by the Supreme Court in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] AC 1173. As Lord…”
- Cited — ARB v IVF Hammersmith & Anor 2018-12-17
“… proper construction of the Agreement, the applicable principles are those set out by the Supreme Court in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173 and the earlier authorities there cited.…”
- Cited — Hopkinson & Ors v Towergate Financial (Group) Ltd & Ors 2018-12-06
“…tend to use such terms in accordance with the definitions”. Echoing as it does Lord Hodge’s observation in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 36, [2017] AC 1173, at [13] that some agreements may be successfully interpreted principally by textual analysis, for example because of their sophistication and complexity and b…”
- Cited — British Telecommunications Plc v BT Pension Scheme Trustees Ltd & Anor 2018-12-04
“…[2017] AC 1173…”
- Cited — Astor Management AG v Atalaya Mining Plc & Ors 2018-11-01
“…to Astor was not a reason for departing from it: Lord Hodge (with whom Lords Neuberger, Mance, Clarke and Sumption agreed) in Wood v. Capita Insurance Services [2017] AC 1173 at [11]; Lord Neuberger in Arnold v. Britton (above) at [20].…”
- Cited — Agarwal v Cardiff University & Anor 2018-09-27
“…[2017] AC 1173…”
- Cited — City of York v Trinity One (Leeds) Ltd 2018-08-29
“…n Rainy Sky SA v Kookmin Bank [2011] 1 WLR 2900 with the considerable assistance of the overview provided by Lord Hodge in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] AC 1173 at [8] to [14].…”
- Cited — PM Law Ltd v Motorplus Ltd 2018-07-26
“…consistent with business common sense: Arnold v Britton & Ors [2015] AC 1619 per Lord Neuberger PSC at [14] – [23] and Wood v Capita Insurance Services Limited [2017] AC 1173: [2017] UKSC 24 per Lord Hodge JSC at [8] – [15].…”
- Cited — Trillium (Prime) Property GP Ltd v Elmfield Road Ltd 2018-07-04
“…rt dealing with the principles of contractual interpretation, culminating (at least for the time being) in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173. I will not attempt to distil or paraphrase that learning. As Lord Hodge said at [9], the legal profession has sufficient judicial statements of that nature.…”
- Cited — Malone v Birmingham Community NHS Trust 2018-06-19
“…r Life Assurance Co Ltd [1997] AC 749; Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd [2009] UKHL 38, [2009] AC 1101 and Wood v Capita Insurance Services [2017] UKSC 24; [2017] AC 1173.…”
- Cited — National Bank of Kazakhstan & Anor v The Bank of New York Mellon Sa/nv, London Branch 2018-06-19
“… provide guidance on contractual interpretation, including Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36; [2015] AC 1618 and Wood v Capita Insurance Services [2017] UKSC 24; [2017] AC 1173. The latest guidance is to be found in Wood. The single judgment in that case was given by Lord Hodge, with whom Lord Neuberger, Lord Mance, Lord Clarke and Lo…”
- Cited — Botleigh Grange Hotel Ltd v HMRC 2018-05-09
“…The approach to the interpretation of contracts has received further judicial attention in Wood v CapitaInsurance Services Limited [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173 per Lord Hodge in particular at [8] – [15]. Lord Hodge declined to reformulate the guidance in Rainy Sky SA v Kookmin Bank [2011] 1 WLR 2900 and Arnold v Britt…”
- Cited — Interactive E-Solutions JLT & Anor v O3b Africa Ltd 2018-01-30
“…ssed by the Supreme Court in a series of cases over the last few years culminating (for the time being) in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24, [2017] AC 1173. I will not attempt to summarise or paraphrase it. As Lord Hodge said at [9] the legal profession has sufficient judicial statements of this nature.…”