Spats in the City

No notice, no claim? (Drax v Scottish Power)

July 08, 2024 Collyer Bristow LLP

When is a notice of claim under a share purchase agreement valid or not?  Does the recent Court of Appeal decision in Drax v Scottish Power distort the agreed allocation of risk between parties or does it inject a degree of commercial common sense to avoid the harshness of dismissing a valid claim on a technicality?

Robin Henry, Head of Dispute Resolution at Collyer Bristow, and David Lascelles, Barrister at Littleton Chambers, discuss these questions and others relating to contractual notice of claim clauses in our latest edition of Spats in the City.

Run time: 34 minutes