Building Law Reports

Practice - Amendment - Leave to amend to reintroduce allegation previously abandoned

Contract - Retention - JCT Standard Contract, 1980 edition clause 30.5.1 - Clause 30.5.3 deleted - Whether obligation to place retention in separate account - Words deleted not part of contract - Injunction to create separate account

Contract - Retention - JCT Contract with Contractor’s Design, 1981 edition, clause 30.4.2.2 - Whether obligation to place retention in separate account when request not made when money withheld - Whether injunction available where delay

Public Health - Building Act 1984, sec 35 - ingredients of offence.

Defective Premises Act 1972, section 1 - Acts of misfeasance and nonfeasance - Whether liability attaches to non-feasance

Contract - Compromise - Whether Third Party claim deferred - Circularity.

Contract - Set-off - JCT Standard Domestic Sub-Contract DOM/1, 1980 edition, clauses 12.2 and 23 - Claim for damages for delay with clause 12 independent of clause 23 procedure - Whether equitable set-off excluded by clause 23.4 - Meaning of “Pay or Allow”

Arbitration - Arbitration Act 1950, section 4 - Whether “dispute”