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Providence and party intention: the Supreme Court on industry-wide standard forms

12 April 2026 / Author(s): Teen Jui Chow , Alessandro Forzani
Issue: April 2026 / Categories: Feature

How should industry-wide standard form contracts be interpreted? Should contracting parties be permitted to refer to past versions of the same standard form to determine the meaning of later versions? In this article, Teen Jui Chow and Alex Forzani explore the Supreme Court’s recent answers to those questions.

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