Building and Construction in UK Law
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Gilbert Ash (Northern) Ltd v Modern Engineering (Bristol) Ltd
... ... , 1969, with the City of Bradford (the employers) to carry out building work. The contract was in the form issued by the R.I.B.A. for Local ... That would not be construction but adding words which are not there. I am clearly of opinion that what is ... ...
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Flannery and Another v Halifax Estate Agencies Ltd, trading as Colleys Professional Services
... ... They did so with the benefit of a mortgage from the Derbyshire Building Society. The defendants ("the valuers") were asked by the building society ... in giving reasons: see Bingham LJ in Eckersley -v- Binnie 18 Construction Law Reports 1 at page 77: "In resolving conflicts of expert ... ...
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Whitworth Street Estates (Manchester) Ltd v James Miller and Partners Ltd
... ... 1 The Appellants are building contractors whose registered office is in Scotland. The Respondents are an ... settled that it is not legitimate to use as an aid in the construction of the contract anything which the parties said or did after it was made ... ...
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Ruxley Electronics and Construction Ltd v Forsyth
... ... A landowner contracts for building works to be executed on his land. When the work is complete it serves the practical purpose for which it was required perfectly satisfactorily. But ... ...
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Parkinson (Sir Lindsay) & Company Ltd v Triplan Ltd
... ... course, equivalent to a payment into Court, see Demolition & Construction Co. Limited. v. Kent River Board 1963 2 Lloyd 7, at page 16 ... ...
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Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd
... ... 3 The plaintiff is a carpenter. The defendants are building contractors who in September 1985 had entered into a contract with ... this issue the first question is whether, on the true construction of the contract, entire performance was a condition precedent to payment ... ...
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Victory House General Partner Ltd v RGB P&C Ltd
... ... AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION COURT Royal Courts of Justice Strand, London, WC2A 2LL ... out of the development and conversion of an existing office building into an 87 bedroom hotel at Victory House, Leicester Square, London (“ ... ...
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Welsh Development Agency v Redpath Dorman Long Ltd
... ... M BOWDERY (Instructed by Legal Department, Trafalgar House Construction, Croydon) appeared on behalf of the Respondent ... floor slab had indeed settled by up to 55 mm at the centre of the building. They concluded that this settlement was probably due to a leak in a water ... ...
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Courtney & Fairbairn Ltd v Tolaini Brothers (Hotels) Ltd
... ... Courtney was well placed to obtain finance for building development. He was also a building contractor himself. The two met and ... Courtney or his company to do the construction work. After the meeting, on 10th April, 1969 Mr. Courtney wrote to Mr ... ...
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Ashville Investments Ltd v Elmer Contractors Ltd; Elmer Contractors Ltd v Ashville Investments Ltd
... ... owners (Ashville) and the contractors (Elmer) for the construction of six warehouse units in Wokingham. The contract between them was in the ... On this basis Elmer quoted a price f or the building works on the 21st December, 1982. A meeting then took place between the ... ...
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