Same clause, same facts, 146 days between the answers.
Counting twelve months is not the difficult part. Deciding when the twelve months began is, and on this clause there are three defensible answers. A countdown that shows one of them has hidden the only judgement that mattered.
MAT-2188 · Warranty claim notice
“…within twelve months of the Purchaser becoming aware of the breach”
The earliest moment anyone on the Purchaser's side wrote the problem down. A counterparty will argue awareness began here and it is the hardest of the three to rebut.
Awareness of a suspicion is not awareness of a breach. This is the most defensible middle position and the one most people assume without checking the first.
Convenient and difficult to sustain. Corporate formalities rarely determine when a party became aware of something its own staff had been discussing for months.
The register carries 38 days, not 184. Acting on the earliest defensible trigger costs an unnecessary notice; acting on the latest costs the claim. Those are not symmetrical and the default should not pretend they are.
4 of 6 dates were counted, not typed
A date taken from a clause and a date agreed on a call are different objects. One list that does not say which is which is a trap.
| What | Matter | Date | Days | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serve notice to preserve the termination window | MAT-2214 | 12 Sept 2026 | 6 | Derived from a clause Variation Agreement No. 2, Clause 3 |
| Response to the counterparty's exit-fee position | MAT-2214 | 24 Sept 2026 | 18 | Entered by hand Agreed on a call, no contractual basis |
| Warranty claim notice — on the earliest defensible trigger | MAT-2188 | 14 Oct 2026 | 38 | Derived from a clause SPA warranty clause, trigger contested |
| Option to extend the services term lapses | MAT-2190 | 2 Nov 2026 | 57 | Derived from a clause MSA Clause 4.2 |
| Renewal decision for the data-room licence | MAT-2188 | 1 Dec 2026 | 86 | Entered by hand Internal, movable |
| Long-stop date for completion | MAT-2201 | 15 Jan 2027 | 131 | Derived from a clause SPA Clause 3.1 |
Four rules the register follows
The first is the one that decides everything else, and it is a deliberate bias rather than a calculation.
- 01 Default to the earliest defensible date
- Not the most likely one. The cost of acting early is an unnecessary notice; the cost of acting late is the claim. Those are not symmetrical and the default should not pretend they are.
- 02 Show the alternatives, always
- A single countdown is a decision disguised as a fact. Every derived date on the register opens onto the trigger it was counted from and the ones that were rejected.
- 03 Separate derived from diarised
- A date taken from a clause and a date somebody agreed on a call are different objects. Mixing them in one list is how a movable internal deadline acquires the authority of a contractual one.
- 04 Recount when the file changes
- An amendment landing in the matter re-runs every date derived from the clause it touches, and says which ones moved. Deadlines computed once at intake go stale silently.
What it will not compute
The third is a refusal rather than a gap. Statutory limitation interacts with facts a document set does not contain, and a wrong answer there cannot be undone.
- It cannot tell you which trigger a court would take
- It sets out the candidates with the argument for each. Choosing is legal judgement, and the page defaults to the earliest precisely because it is not making that call for you.
- A derived date needs the clause in the file
- Every date on the register was counted from a document the system could read. An amendment sitting in an inbox produces a register that is confidently, quietly wrong.
- No statutory limitation periods are computed
- Contractual periods are counted from their own wording. Statutory limitation is not, because the rules interact with facts a document set does not contain — and a wrong answer there is unrecoverable.
- It does not chase anybody
- It will tell the responsible person, repeatedly, on a schedule. Whether a notice gets served six days from now is a matter of somebody doing it.
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