Julian Bailey (ed), Construction Law, Costs and Contemporary Developments: Drawing the Threads Together; A Festschrift for Lord Justice Jackson

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DOI10.3366/elr.2019.0586
Published date01 September 2019
Date01 September 2019
Pages452-453

Lord Justice Jackson had a distinguished career which left a lasting impression on both construction law and practice. This book is a fitting testament to that career, but to only describe it as that is to underestimate the value of this book.

The construction sector produces significant court judgments at what is, from the perspective of a busy lawyer permanently short of time, an alarming rate. It would be very easy to place a book with the enticing title of “Construction Law, Costs and Contemporary Developments” aside to read at a later date. That would be a mistake.

Despite its title, this is an eminently readable book on the leading construction judgments of Lord Justice Jackson over twenty years. It is a book which reflects upon the past, but which...

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