Bathurst Resources Ltd v L&M Coal Holdings Ltd - [2021] 3 NZLR 765

Contract — Interpretation — Objectivity principle — Primacy of text — Relevance of third parties — Implied term — Performance payments — Coal mining rights — Sale agreement — Whether first performance payment due and owing — Approach to interpretation of contracts — shipped — Amendment to agreement — Postponement of performance payment while royalty payments continuing on coal sold — True effect of amendment.