Baird Textile Holdings supplied Marks & Spencer for about 30 years. There was no written long-term contract. Marks & Spencer ended the relationship without warning.
Baird argued that the relationship amounted to an implied contract. On 28 February 2001, the Court of Appeal disagreed. It found the supposed agreement too uncertain and saw no intention to be legally bound. In its view, “there is no necessity to imply any contract.”