RUSSELL AND ANOTHER v PETER STONE (TRADING AS PSP CONSULTANTS) AND OTHERS

[2017] BLR 429

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION(TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION COURT)

Before Mr Justice Coulson

Contracts – Standstill Agreements – Interpretation – Whether effect is to extend time or suspend the running of time – Whether protection of earlier agreement is lost by conclusion of a further agreement – Relevance and effect of recitals – Relevance of unamended standard form or template agreement – Commercial common sense – Clear words.