Assisting you in preparing, advising on and disputing agreements, The Interpretation of Contracts, fully explains this key area of commercial law. The book gives you practical guidance when you are faced with questions of disputed interpretation. It enables you construct solid arguments based on the principles laid down by case law. It helps you to challenge contracts and explain their inadequacies. There's expert commentary on contract law and illustrations from relevant cases. Whether you are drafting contracts or negotiating terms, you'll have the best resource to avoid future disputes over meaning. When you are representing a party who is disputing a contract, The Interpretation of Contracts also helps you to draft skeleton arguments to use in court. It also enables you work out the likely outcome so you know the best line to pursue.

Chitty on Contracts is the best foundation on which to base any case involving contract law. You can confidently cite it in court. Chitty covers contracts for every commercial situation, with specific sections on a range of contracts from agency to suretyship. It also covers consumer contracts.
Now in its 30th edition, Chitty gives you insight into contract law based on over 180 years of experience. The new edition provides analysis of the most recent and the most relevant cases to turn to when you negotiate or dispute a contract.

This exciting new practitioner-orientated text provides a clear and comprehensive account of the legal principles and doctrines which come into play whenever the parties disagree about the meaning and effect of the contractual words. Most commercial transactions, from the supply of goods of services to the sale of a business, are reduced to writing. In most cases this entails that the deal is recorded in clear and certain terms for the parties to perform. Nevertheless written contracts are abundant with disputes about the meaning and effect of particular words and phrases.