Keywords: The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009; The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996
Well, it is finally going to happen!  After a very long consultation period, the amendments to the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 will come into force in England on 1 October […]

Keywords: Jones –v– Kaney; Stanton –v– Callaghan [2000] 1 QB 75; 2 WLR 745; Palmer –v– Durnford Ford [1992] QB 483; Borth-y-Gest in Rondel –v– Worsley [1969] 1 AC 19; Saif Ali –v– Sydney Mitchell [1980] AC 198;Expert witness;
The recent judgement of Jones –v– Kaney [2011] (UKSC 13) is a landmark […]

Keywords: Set-off; Abatement; Counter-claim; Hanak –v– Green [1958] 2 QB 9; Anglian Building Products Ltd. –v– W & C French (Construction) Ltd. [1972] 16 BLR ; Ruxley Electronics & Construction Limited –v– Forsyth [1996] AC 344; Bouygues –v– Dahl-Jensen [2000] BLR 522
The economic gloom continues to wreak havoc in the construction industry, and […]

Keywords: CN Associates (A Firm) –v– Holberton Limited [2011] EWHC 43 (TCC); Adjudication; Adjudicator’s jurisdiction; Agency; Assignment; Contract evidenced in writing; CPR Part 24
In the case of CN Associates (A Firm) –v–Holbeton Limited, CN Associates (“CN”) sought to summarily enforce the decision of an adjudicator. 
The court had to […]