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According to the General Court, despite the entire clause of the agreement, this was a reasonable result that did not preclude the inclusion of clauses in the contract when the corresponding examination (i.e. commercial effectiveness/necessity) was fulfilled. There have been several cases where a party, in defence of liability for a right to misrepresentation, has attempted to invoke an entire contractual clause that refuses statements other than those contained in the final agreement in accordance with the treaty. The terms as implied hipwell on the basis of commercial efficiency have been described as “intrinsic” to the written agreement in the sense that they are part of the contract itself. Therefore, the principled position regarding these “intrinsic” clauses is that they cannot be excluded by a full contractual clause, even if it contains formulations that generally exclude allegedly implicit clauses.6 Entire contractual clauses offer the parties considerable comfort that they can only be held liable for the written words of the contract and not. for example, pre-contractual statements or so-called insurance. However, in practice, the existence of a full contractual clause in the contract, when a dispute arises, does not necessarily prevent a party from asserting a claim that goes beyond the “four walls” of the written contract. Even if each clause is interpreted separately, it is doubtful whether implicit “extrinsic” conditions of this type can be excluded by a comprehensive contractual clause that contains only a general exclusion of tacit conditions.9 “This agreement (together with the documents mentioned therein) represents the entire agreement between the parties and replaces and deletes all discussions, prior correspondence, negotiations, drafts, agreements, promises, assurances, guarantees, assurances and agreements between them, whether written or oral, with regard to their subject matter”. The buyer argued that the wording of the entire contractual term was not broad enough to exclude claims of misrepresentation. It argued that it should exclude only confidence in insurance which might otherwise be invoked as contractual conditions.

The buyer also argued that a “cumulative remedies” clause had the effect of retaining claims for misrepresentation. The clause stated that “as expressly provided for in the [SPA], the rights and remedies provided for in the Treaty are `in addition to and not exclusively rights or remedies provided for by law`”. On the buyer`s appeal, the Supreme Court judge set aside the master`s decision. He considered that the entire contractual clause was not effective in excluding false claims, as there is no “clear wording that justifies an intention to go beyond the definition of the scope of the contractual agreement and exclude other claims”. In our summer 2018 edition, we reported (here the facts) on a preliminary ruling from the High Court in which the Master stated that an entire contractual clause, if interpreted in the context of the share purchase agreement as a whole, excludes the seller`s liability for misrepresentations. This happened despite the fact that the clause did not contain language to deny trust or to exclude liability for misrepresentations. . . .