EDITORIAL COMMENT

This month, CILL is departing from its normal contents and structure somewhat by only commenting on one case, Birse Construction v Haiste , in some depth. The rest of this month’s issue consists of a round-up of other cases decided during 1995 which may be of interest, notwithstanding that many of them are drawn from outside the field of construction law. It is always well to remember that whilst the Official Referees are, or soon become, construction law specialists, the judges of the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords are generalist lawyers. As far as they are concerned, there is no separate thing called “construction law”, and they repeatedly bring construction law back into line with other aspects of commercial law, both substantive and procedural.