Your Written Contract Should Cover Everything – No Oral Evidence Allowed!

We all know how important it is to record agreements in writing even when the law doesn’t specifically require us to do so. And it makes sense to ensure upfront that everything we have agreed on is fully and clearly recorded. Not doing so is a recipe for dispute, delay and expensive litigation.

But what if something you agreed to verbally was for whatever reason left out of the written contract? Can you ever lead verbal evidence to confirm it? A recent Supreme Court of Appeal decision illustrates the legal and practical principles involved in the context of a case involving a fruit/wine farm, a borehole driller who successfully used his water-diving skills to locate water, and a dispute over whether or not the borehole’s yield had been guaranteed in the drilling agreement.

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By | 2020-01-13T15:43:08+02:00 January 13th, 2020|News|0 Comments

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