Rectification: The Modern Law and Practice Governing Claims for Rectification for Mistake, 3rd Edition

Author: David Hodge, QC
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
ISBN: 9780414077737
Published In: December 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Rectification: The Modern Law and Practice Governing Claims for Rectification for Mistake provides essential information on how to deal with situations in which a mistake has been made in the drafting of a transactional or other legal document to the detriment of one of the parties.
- Offers full, in-depth coverage of this important and growing area of law
- Unravels the complexities of the subject and explains the options and remedies available
- Reveals how best to advise clients on the merits of bringing or resisting a claim for rectification to court
- Shows how rectification remedies are capable of application over many fields of law, including commercial, chancery, property, pensions and general civil litigation and dispute resolution
- Explains how to litigate a claim, and how to defend against one, or to advise as to the settlement of such litigation
- Covers rectification by construction or by way of the remedy of rectification
- Accurate and full in its coverage of this important topic
- Written and structured in a user friendly way
- Discusses the key judgments from the unprecedented number of cases focusing on this area in recent years, not only English court decisions but those of other common law jurisdictions as well
- Includes precedents for use in court proceedings, rectification of unilateral documents, rectification for common mistake, rectification for unilateral mistake, and combined claims for rectification on the alternative grounds of common and unilateral mistake
- The Nature of Rectification
- Rectification by Construction
- Rectification for Common Mistake
- Rectification for Unilateral Mistake
- Defences
- Third Parties
- Wills and Unilateral Transactions
- Particular Documents
- Evidence
- Practice and Procedure
- Appendix: Precedents