Gilbert & Partners v Knight

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1968
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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21 cases
  • Syarikat Binaan Utara Jaya v Koperasi Serbaguna Sungai Glugor Bhd
    • Malaysia
    • Court of Appeal (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • IAN McGLINN v WALTHAM CONTRACTORS Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Technology and Construction Court)
    • Invalid date
    ...see, for example, Keating on Construction Contracts, 8 th Edition, paragraph 13–067 and the case referred to in the text there, Gilbert & Partners v Knight [1968] 2 All ER 248. Accordingly, there can be no basis in principle which would permit Mr McGlinn retrospectively and unilaterally to......
  • Ch’ng Ghee Weng and Another v Lee Khoon Eng T/A Prestige Construction
    • Malaysia
    • Court of Appeal (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Rowe v Vale of White Horse District Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 7 Marzo 2003
    ...client when he accepted them was reasonably entitled to assume that the architect was undertaking them for no additional charge: (see Gilbert v. Knight [1968] 2 All ER 248). In this case it does not matter that Mr Rowe has no defence of change of position. Under English law (unlike Continen......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Contract administration
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume I - Third Edition
    • 13 Abril 2020
    ...a contractor is concerned, is whether the contract administrator owes the contractor a duty of care. 546 Gilbert & Partners v Knight [1968] 2 All ER 248 (CA). 547 Paciic Associates Inc v Baxter [1990] 1 QB 993 at 1010–1011, per Purchas LJ. See also Shapiro, “Design Professionals’ Liability ......
  • QUANTUM MERUIT
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian Law. First edition Q
    • 6 Febrero 2019
    ...before he can rightly claim for the new or extra work done by the default of the other party. see Gilbert & Partners v. Knight (1968) 2 All E.R 248." - Per Aderemi, J.C.A., in D.P.M.S. Ltd. v. Larmie Suit No. CA/L/441/97; (2000) 5 N.W.L.R. (Pt. 655) 138 at (4) "The learned author of Hal......

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