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No? Then within what period does counts as “immediate”? | No? Then within what period does counts as “immediate”? | ||
You might think Party | You might think Party A needs ''some'' time to collect itself, canter back to the office, fish the Rolodex out of the drawer, find Party A’s number, clear its throat, wait for Party A to pick up the line and exchange some human pleasantries before imparting this vital news. If so, you might ask yourself just how different that sense of “[[immediately]]” is to “[[as soon as reasonably practicable]]”. Not very, is your correspondent’s opinion. | ||
“Immediately” might ''look'' severe, but it has a handsome economy quite lacking from “[[as soon as reasonably practicable]]”. A [[prose stylist]] might feel forcing such an inelegance on an already ungainly contract to be an unnecessary step. But it is not a hill that many negotiators would die on. | |||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*The difference between [[practical|practi''cal'']] and [[practicable|practi''cable'']]. | *The difference between [[practical|practi''cal'']] and [[practicable|practi''cable'']]. | ||
*[[As soon as possible but in any event not later than]] | *[[As soon as possible but in any event not later than]] | ||