Building Law Reports

Tort - Interference with right of support to land - Damages - Whether existence of risk of potential damage to land is actionable damage

Contract - Advance Payment Bond to guarantee re-payment - Construction of Bond - Whether Performance Bond - Whether breach of contract discharged surety from liability under the Bond

Insurance - Contractors’ All Risks policy - Exclusion of design errors - Whether costs of reinstating after landslip recoverable - Meaning of “defectively designed”

Negligence - Limitation - Damage - Defect in piping causing cracks - Cracks repaired by manufacturers - Subsequent event causing damage to property and shutdown - Did cause of action accrue from time of first crack? - Whether claim statute barred

Negligence - Whether duty of care in tort owed by surveyors and engineers giving advice - Limitation

Letter of intent - Substantiation of costs by employer’s quantity surveyor - Whether condition precedent

Contract - Sub-contract - Clauses 23 and 24 of DOM/ 1 - Notice of set-off given by contractor - Decision of adjudicator that contractor pay the amount of the set-off claimed to trustee-stakeholder pending arbitration Injunction to enforce decision of adjudicator pending arbitration -Application for stay of proceedings -Arbitration Act 1950, section 4

Arbitration - Arbitrator - Misconduct - Removal