Over the last 12 months, there have been a number of notable cases with significant implications for construction law and practice. As well as several adjudication cases, such as the widely discussed Grove Developments, which untangled the conflicting authorities around true value adjudications, there were a number of cases that considered fundamental issues of contract … Read more
The Supreme Court has reversed the Court of Appeal’s decision in MT Højgaard AS v E.ON Climate and Renewables UK Robin Rigg East Ltd and another [2017] UKSC 59 on the basis that where there is a fitness for purpose obligation it should be given its natural meaning despite the fact that it is contained … Read more
In SSE Generation Limited v Hochtief Solutions AG and another decided on 21st December 2016, the Court of Session in Scotland considered a contractor’s potential design liability under the NEC Form of Contract. It concluded that the contractor was not obliged to guarantee the performance of the works where Option M (X15) was adopted so … Read more
