Case No. CL-2019-000290

[1994] 1 WLR 592). The language of clause 3.2 does not come close to achieving this effect. 54.There is a further potential issue as to whether EIGL can establish an equitable set-off in this case, namely whether such a set-off can arise from a claim to relief which the defendant claims it can obtain from the future exercise of a statutory discretion, given that, at the date the set-off is asserted, the claimant cannot be said to be under any liability to the defendant, and any such liability is contingent on a court subsequently choosing to exercise a broad statutory discretion in a particular way. There are cases which suggest that contingent claims cannot generally be relied upon to establish a defence of equitable set-off. For example in