Construction Contracts in UK Law

  • Broome v Cassell & Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 23 February 1972
    ... ... mind the danger of disturbing retrospectively the basis on which contracts, settlements of property and fiscal arrangements have been entered into ... would have read the following passage, inconsistent with his construction of the foregoing, under the heading "A Double Rationale" which should, I ... ...
  • Rainy Sky SA and Others v Kookmin Bank
    • Supreme Court
    • 02 November 2011
    ... ... 1 This appeal raises a short question of construction of shipbuilder's refund guarantees given pursuant to six shipbuilding racts ("the Contracts"). The Contracts, which were all dated 11 May 2007, were between each of ... ...
  • Trollope & Colls Ltd v North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board
    • House of Lords
    • 10 April 1973
    ... ... Respondents to nominate sub-contractors who would enter into sub-contracts conforming to that time schedule. This the Respondents were unable to do ... High Court of Justice for a Declaration that upon the true construction of the Building Contract and in the events which had occurred prior to ... ...
  • RTS Flexible Systems Ltd v Molkerei Alois Muller GmbH & Company KG
    • Supreme Court
    • 21 July 2010
    ... ... for any loss of profits (whether direct or indirect), loss of contracts, loss of anticipated savings, data, goodwill and revenue or any other ... On its proper construction, clause 48 of the amended form MF1 prevented a contract on those terms ... ...
  • Broome v Cassell & Company Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 04 March 1971
    ... ... telling him what their staff had said about the book: "As our contracts man said in a hollow voice: 'That seems to tie everything up barring the ... did not direct the jury in those words: and so, on a strict construction of the summing-up, it was at fault. But, here. again, if Rookes, v ... ...
  • East Ham Corporation v Bernard Sunley & Sons Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 27 October 1965
    ... ... Whether on the true construction of the Contract the final certificate issued by the Architect is ... made as to the history of the manner in which building contracts of this kind were built up and it is said that he got his history wrong ... ...
  • Brickfield Properties Ltd v Newton
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 March 1971
    ... ... 15s.1 d ... 9 "18. Unusual and untried forms of construction….£8,926. 3s.4 d" ... 10 In support of their claims they had put in ... of the issues that arise in cases concerning building contracts, it does not seem to me that the three months which elapsed before counsel ... ...
  • Darlington Borough Council v Wiltshier Northern Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 June 1994
    ... ... been for Darlington to enter into a building contract with a construction company, and to raise the finance to pay for the work by borrowing ... the Dolphin Centre, was built, in two Phases, under two building contracts under seal —one for each Phase —in the JCT Standard Form of building ... ...
  • Export Credits Guarantee Department v Universal Oil Products Company
    • House of Lords
    • 24 March 1983
    ... ... but a very short, and I venture to think, simple question of construction of clause 7(1) of an agreement dated 16th October 1970 and concluded ... to an authority whereby the law regarding penalty clauses in contracts as enunciated by this House in Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. Ltd. v. New ... ...
  • I.E. Contractors Ltd v Lloyds Bank Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 July 1990
    ... ... issued performance bonds to the employers under the building contracts. Thirdly, Lloyds Bank plc are respondents and conditional ... to the State Establishment for Agricultural Design and Construction, but that has been in issue. For present purposes I can refer to all these ... ...
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