Building Contract in UK Law

  • Linden Gardens Trust Ltd v Lenesta Sludge Disposals Ltd and Others ; St Martins Property Corporation Ltd and Another v Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd (formerly Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons Ltd)
    • House of Lords
    • 22 July 1993
    ... ... I have much sympathy with the view that where a building contractor is in breach of his contract he should not be relieved of ... ...
  • Alfred McAlpine Construction Ltd v Panatown Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 27 July 2000
    ... ... 1 Panatown employed McAlpine to build a building on land owned by UIPL. The work was defective. Panatown has sought to inate the contract on the ground of McAlpine's failure in performance. Panatown has suffered ... ...
  • Ruxley Electronics and Construction Ltd v Forsyth
    • House of Lords
    • 29 June 1995
    ... ... 3 Damages for breach of contract must reflect, as accurately as the circumstances allow, the loss which the ... A landowner contracts for building works to be executed on his land. When the work is complete it serves the ... ...
  • Davis Contractors Ltd v Fareham Urban District Council
    • House of Lords
    • 19 April 1956
    ... ... parties were the Appellants Davis Contractors Limited, a firm of building contractors, and the Respondents the Fareham Urban District Council. On e 9th July, 1946, the parties had entered into a building contract whereby the Appellants agreed to build for the Respondents 78 houses at ... ...
  • Sutcliffe v Thackrah
    • House of Lords
    • 12 February 1974
    ... ... form of contract being used. There does not appear to have been any formal contract between ... He is employed by the building owner but has no contract with the contractor. We do not in this case have ... ...
  • Gilbert Ash (Northern) Ltd v Modern Engineering (Bristol) Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 25 July 1973
    ... ... The Appellants, whom I shall call the contractor, made a contract on 21st February, 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 ... ...
  • Victory House General Partner Ltd v RGB P&C Ltd
    • Queen's Bench Division (Technology and Construction Court)
    • 26 January 2018
    ... ... out of the development and conversion of an existing office building into an 87 bedroom hotel at Victory House, Leicester Square, London (“ ... Partner Limited (“ VH ”), the employer under a building contract made in about October 2015 (“ the Contract ”) pursuant to which VH ... ...
  • Reardon Smith Line Ltd v Yngevar Hansen-Tangen (trading as H. E. Hansen-Tangen)
    • House of Lords
    • 07 October 1976
    ... ... and a sub-charterparty both relating to a medium sized new-building tanker to be constructed in Japan. By the time the tanker was ready for ... vessel from a Sumitomo company, which agreed to build it by sub-contract with Osaka; the Sumitomo company placed a ship-building contract with ... ...
  • Price v Strange
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 April 1977
    ... ... works to those parts of the interior and exterior of the said building which were demised to the Defendant under the terms of her said lease", ... be granted because the remedy was not mutual at the date of the contract. The respondent also pleaded a case of hardship but that was abandoned at ... ...
  • Beaufort Developments (NI) Ltd v Gilbert Ash (NI) Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 20 May 1998
    ... ... 2 Standard forms of building contract have often been criticised by the courts for being unnecessarily ... ...
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