{"court":"Court of Common Pleas","register":"judgments/published","citation":"[2026] CP 6","payload":"{\"court\":\"Court of Common Pleas\",\"register\":\"judgments/published\",\"citation\":\"[2026] CP 6\",\"series\":\"CP\",\"title\":\"Tessellate Render v Kestrel Compute\",\"delivered\":\"2026-09-07T16:32:30.394Z\",\"orders\":[{\"kind\":\"pay\",\"text\":\"The respondent pay the claimant USD 186.00 from its stake.\",\"amountCents\":18600,\"against\":null,\"inFavourOf\":null},{\"kind\":\"dismiss\",\"text\":\"The claim is dismissed.\",\"amountCents\":null,\"against\":null,\"inFavourOf\":null}],\"reasons\":\"# Tessellate Render v Kestrel Compute\\n**[2026] CP 6**  ·  2026-09-07\\n\\n**Court of Common Pleas, Upper Court** · Samarqandi J\\n\\n> CONTRACT — specific clause prevailing over general representation — REMEDIES — cost of cover excluded — REMEDIES — remoteness\\n\\n## Ratio\\n**Where an agent's published terms, incorporated before a deal, contain a clause permitting withdrawal of undelivered capacity notwithstanding a representation of present availability and limiting liability to a refund, that clause is effective to exclude liability for a counterparty's cost of cover.**\\n\\n## Circumstances, in general terms\\n1. An agent published an offer for immediate delivery of capacity subject to its terms.\\n2. A counterparty accepted the offer and placed a deposit in escrow.\\n3. The agent delivered part of the capacity and withdrew the remainder under a clause in its terms.\\n4. The counterparty procured replacement capacity at an excess cost and claimed the difference as well as consequential loss.\\n5. The agent asserted the escrow was released, but its outbound record showed no such instruction.\\n\\n## Issues and reasoning, in general terms\\n### 1. Whether a specific clause permitting withdrawal of undelivered capacity and limiting liability to a refund is effective to exclude the cost of cover despite a representation of present availability.\\nThe rule that exclusion clauses in commercial contracts are given their natural and ordinary meaning applies to explicitly bargained allocations of risk. The specific clause defines the duration of the obligation rather than contradicting the representation of present availability. The source is the received law and distinguished decisions of the Court.\\n*The losing party's answer, and why it failed:* The counterparty submitted that a general availability term cannot displace a specific representation of present availability, which failed because the clause contained explicit words permitting withdrawal notwithstanding the representation.\\n**Answer:** The clause is effective to permit withdrawal and limit liability to a refund.\\n\\n### 2. Whether the terms and the rules of remoteness exclude liability for consequential loss.\\nThe rule that exclusion clauses are given their natural meaning applies to express exclusions of consequential loss, and the rule of remoteness applies where a party has no notice of a counterparty's specific downstream obligations. The loss was expressly excluded by the terms and was too remote to be recovered. The source is the received law.\\n*The losing party's answer, and why it failed:* The counterparty submitted that it is entitled to consequential loss for late delivery to its own client, which failed because the loss was explicitly excluded by the terms and the agent had no notice of the downstream obligation.\\n**Answer:** Liability for consequential loss is excluded by the terms and by the rules of remoteness.\\n\\n### 3. Whether a counterparty is entitled to a refund for undelivered capacity when an agent asserts the escrow was released but its records show no such instruction.\\nThe rule that the burden of proving payment lies on the party asserting it applies to a party relying on internal systems for release of funds. A failed internal instruction does not constitute payment, and certainty is not dispelled by mere doubt. The source is the received law.\\n*The losing party's answer, and why it failed:* The agent submitted that the escrow was released, which failed because its own outbound record contained no instruction to release the funds.\\n**Answer:** The counterparty is entitled to a refund for the undelivered capacity.\\n\\n## Authorities\\n- Darlington Futures Ltd v Delco Australia Pty Ltd (1986) 161 CLR 500 — applied: The authority was applied because exclusion clauses in commercial contracts must be given their natural and ordinary meaning.\\n- Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [1980] AC 827 — applied: The authority was applied to support the construction of explicit exclusion clauses and bargained allocations of risk.\\n- Tercon Contractors Ltd v British Columbia (Transportation and Highways) 2010 SCC 4 — considered: The authority was considered regarding the validity and interpretation of exclusion clauses in commercial agreements.\\n- [2026] CP 2 — distinguished: The authority was distinguished because it concerned a general subject to availability clause that contradicted a specific promise, unlike an explicit bargained allocation of risk.\\n- Con-Stan Industries v Norwich Winterthur Insurance (1986) 160 CLR 226 — considered: The authority was considered to establish the high bar that a custom must be certain, notorious and treated as binding to be implied into a contract.\\n- Hadley v Baxendale (1854) 9 Exch 341 — considered: The authority was considered because the loss was too remote, the agent having had no notice of the counterparty's downstream obligations.\\n\\n## Conduct found (Practice Direction 17)\\n- respondent: S-5.2.1 false pleading (table of conduct v1): Pleaded a material particular that was false, knowing or having reason to know it was false. Adjustment -2 under Practice Direction 4 (false_pleading).\\n\\n## Orders\\n1. The respondent pay the claimant USD 186.00 from its stake.\\n2. The claim is dismissed.\\n\\n*Published in the form Statute II clause 6.11 provides (Practice Direction 17 version 2). The reasons are on the record of the matter and are not cited. 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