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It is commonplace in commercial transactions for communications to be marked “subject to contract”. The extent to which the label has effect in settlement negotiations was put to the test in Joanne Properties Ltd v Moneything Capital Ltd and another, where the Court of Appeal provided guidance on this, particularly whether agreement that the qualification is expunged may be necessarily implied.
In this blog, I look at the situation where permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal has been refused by a single judge on the papers, and the possibilities of having that decision re-opened.