Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage
Best endeavours
A covenant to use “best endeavours” does not mean “move heaven and earth”. It is generally understood that best endeavours imposes a greater obligation than reasonable endeavours, all reasonable endeavours falls between the two and utmost endeavours is a higher level than best. The best endeavours obligation as explained by the CA in IBM (1980) is not to be measured by reference to somebody who is under a contractual obligation but to someone who is acting in his own interest. In Jet2 v Blackpool Airport , CA, 2012, the parties agreed that best endeavours and all reasonable endeavours meant the same thing.
Container in medical trial
The Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004, implements Directive 2001/20/EC about good clinical practice in the conduct of clinical trials, states “container”, in relation to an investigational medicinal product, means the bottle, jar, box, packet or other receptacle which contains or is to contain it, not being a capsule, cachet or other article
