Principles of Contractual Interpretation

Richard Calnan is a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP in London and an Honorary Professor at University College London. His practice involves a broad range of corporate and financial transactions, restructurings, and insolvencies. He has written a number of books, articles, and chapters on commercial law, including Proprietary Rights and Insolvency (2nd edn OUP 2016) and Principles of Statutory Interpretation (OUP 2023).Paul S. Davies is Professor of Commercial Law at University College London and a Barrister at Essex Court Chambers. He was previously a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St Catherine's College, Oxford. Paul has also worked at the Law Commission. In 2020, Paul was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law, which 'recognises the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising'.

• Prologue I. The Guiding Principle 1: Principle 1: Objective Intention II .Text and Context 2: Principle 2: The Text 3: Principle 3: The Whole Text 4: Principle 4: The Context III. Understanding Words 5: Principle 5: Natural Meaning 6: Principle 6: Ambiguity 7: Principle 7: Unnatural Meaning IV Adding Words 8: Principle 8: Implied Terms V Changing Words 9: Principle 9: Rectification 10: Principle 10: Estoppel by Convention Epilogue, Principles of Drafting, An Interpretation Clause