| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2005] All ER (D) 383 (Jun) |
| Neutral Citation: | [2005] EWCA Civ 806 |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Civil Division |
| Judge: | Tuckey, Rix LJJ and Wilson J |
| Representation | Jonathan Hirst QC, Andrew Mitchell and Patrick Goodall (instructed by Clifford Chance LLP) for the first claimant and (instructed by Barlow Lyde & Gilbert) for the second claimant. |
| Jonathan Sumption QC and Colin Wynter (instructed by Lovells) for the 16th and 17th defendants. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 30 June 2005 |
Catchwords
Contracts - Enforceability - Certainty - Agreement by defendant to accept responsibility for conduct of employee - Agreement insufficiently certain to bind parties.
The Case
The judge had wrongly concluded in the instant case that exchanges between representatives of the claimants and of the 16th and 17th defendants had resulted in a binding agreement.
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