FG Wilson (Engineering) Ltd v John Holt & Company (Liverpool) Ltd
Decision date: 5 September 2012
Neutral citation: [2012] EWHC 2477 (Comm)
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
Insurance classification confidence: high
Overall AI summary confidence: medium
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This commercial dispute concerned FG Wilson's claim for about US$12m for generators, parts and related charges against Holt Liverpool and whether FG Wilson's standard "no set-off" clause met the statutory reasonableness test. The court answered the preliminary issue affirmatively that the no set-off clause satisfied the reasonableness requirement and granted FG Wilson summary judgment, but ordered the sums to be recalculated on the basis that the agreed payment terms were the 25th day of the fifth month after invoice.
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