A feature of English contract law is the willingness of the
court to recognise the realities of commercial life. These
realities often result in contracts, or perhaps alleged contracts,
being in anything other than a neat and tidy document which has
indisputably been signed by duly authorised persons. The Commercial
Court demonstrated this in the case of Golden Ocean Group
Limited v Salgaocar Mining Industries Pvt Limited, Mr Anil
V. Salgaocar [2011] EWHC 56 (Comm). The dispute related to the
chartering of a ship and a guarantee of the charterer's
obligations and the court had to consider a range of questions
regarding contracts and guarantees which could easily relate to any
number of commercial transactions. The court proceedings were
brought in order to determine whether the Claimant, Golden Ocean
Group, had an arguable case and, if so, that it should be permitted
to issue proceedings in the English courts and serve them on the
defendants in
