Neill LJ said that it was necessary when construing a commercial document to strive to attribute to it a meaning which accords with business common sense. The primary focus is the agreement itself which ‘must speak for itself, but . . must do so in situ and not be transported to a laboratory for microscopic analysis’.
Neill, Roch and Auld LJJ
[1995] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 344
England and Wales
Updated: 02 June 2021; Ref: scu.450166