Cases - Reardon Smith Line v Yngvar Hansen-Tangen

Record details

Name

Reardon Smith Line v Yngvar Hansen-Tangen

Date

[1976]

Citation

1 WLR 989 HL

Keywords

Contract – construction – interpretation - shipping – charterparty – description of vessel - whether charterers entitled to refuse to take delivery of vessel

Summary

In this case, Lord Wilberforce stated that the court should 'place itself in thought in the same factual matrix' as that in which the parties were at the time the deed was executed. For this purpose, extrinsic evidence is admissible.