The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[2020] QB 284
Court of Appeal
Chudley and others
v
Clydesdale Bank plc (trading as Yorkshire Bank)
[2019] EWCA Civ 344
2019 Feb 20, 21; March 6
Longmore, Flaux, Moylan LJJ
Contract— Terms— Construction— Apparently binding unconditional contract— Whether subject to condition precedent— Burden of proving existence of such condition precedent
Contract— Third party rights— Benefit to third party— Contract between bank and investment company for opening of account to hold funds invested by company’s clients— Whether clients entitled to enforce contract in their own right— Whether contract purporting to confer benefit on clients— Whether clients identified in contract—
Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (c 31), s 1(1)(b)(3)
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