Alex Forzani and Teen Jui Chow have published an article examining the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Providence Building Services Ltd v Hexagon Housing Association Ltd [2026] UKSC 1 on the interpretation of industry-wide standard form contracts and the judgment’s wider application in financial services and shipping contexts.
They discuss the Court’s emphasis on interpreting standard forms according to the objective intentions of the contracting parties. The article also considers the Court’s warning against relying on a detailed ‘archaeology of the forms’ when construing later iterations while noting the continued relevance of drafting history and industry materials in appropriate cases.
Click here to read the article. This article was first published in the April 2026 issue of Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law.
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