Being careful with phrases positioned at the start of a drafted clause
The UK Supreme Court recently looked at a syntax issue in McDonald v National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc [2014] 3 WLR 1197, [2014] WLR(D) 439, [2014] UKSC 53 (22 October 2014). The issue was how to interpret a drafted clause that had an introductory phrase and it was not clear what the introductory phrase modified… Read more