Building Law Monthly

In WRW Construction Ltd v Datblygau Davies Developments Ltd [2020] EWHC 1965 (TCC), Recorder Andrew Singer QC held that the defendant had no reasonably arguable defence to the claimant’s claim for payment following the adjudicator’s decision as to..

In Maftoon (t/a FM Construction Services) v Sayed and Lebaneat (Yarm) Ltd [2020] EWHC 1801 (TCC), it was held that the parties to the contract were the claimant and the defendant in his personal capacity and not the company of which the defendant..

In Attorney-General of the Virgin Islands v Global Water Associates Ltd [2020] UKPC 18, the Privy Council held that an employer which was in breach of a contract to design and build a plant as a result of its failure to make the site available to..

In Rushbond plc v The J S Design Partnership LLP [2020] EWHC 1982 (TCC), O’Farrell J held that the defendant architects did not owe the claimant a common law duty of care in respect of fire damage to property caused by a third party, when intruders..

In Dickie & Moore Ltd v Ronald James McLeish, Mrs Diane McLeish and Catriona Watt as Trustees of The Lauren McLeish Discretionary Trust [2020] CSIH 38 the Inner House of the Court of Session dismissed an appeal from the decision of Lord Doherty..