24.09.18
Construction e-update
The recent English case of Williams Tarr Construction Limited v Anthony Roylance Limited and Anthony Roylance [2018] EWHC 23 highlights the importance of taking time at the commencement of a project to set out the basis on which parties intend to contract with each other.
WTC was the main contractor on a housing development in Cheshire. The works included the construction of a retaining wall to the south of the site, the original intention had been that the wall would be a blockwork wall but this was subsequently revised to stone-filled gabion baskets. During the course of the works...
20.09.18
Brexit
As announced earlier this summer, the UK Government has now begun to publish the first of what is expected to be a series of over 80 Brexit ‘no deal’ technical notes. The 25 documents released by the UK Government on 23 August – and the further 28 released on 13 September – contain information about some of the potential impacts of a ‘no deal’ scenario for citizens and businesses in the UK, and identify steps that could be taken to mitigate that impact.
Earlier this year, ‘in view of the considerable uncertainties’, the EU had published its own ‘preparedness notices’. While the UK...
19.09.18
Brexit
On 12 July 2018, the UK Government published its long-awaited White Paper on ‘The Future Relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union’. The foreword from the new Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, Dominic Raab, described it as ‘a vision that respects the result of the referendum and delivers a principled and practical Brexit.’
Since the 2016 Brexit referendum, one of the principal concerns for the higher education sector has been the free movement of people. The key principle set out in the White Paper is that Brexit will end the free movement of people to ‘control...
14.09.18
Construction e-update
BDW purchased land for a housing development from Bridgend County Borough Council (Bridgend). The site investigations following the purchase found extensively more asbestos in the ground than had been identified in the geotechnical report provided with the sale. BDW raised a claim against the firm of engineers who prepared the report, Integral Geotechnique (Wales) Limited (IGL). IGL expressly stated that the report could only be relied on by others following assignation and due to an internal error, BDW failed to seek the assignation. The court found that as there had been no assignation, IGL...
