BOOK REVIEW

150 Contractual Problems and Their Solutions. By Roger Knowles (2nd ed), 312 pp., £49.50 (hardback); ISBN 1405120703 (Blackwell Publishing, 2005) (available from www.blackwellpublishing.com ).

The aim of this book is to examine a number of problems that arise on a regular basis within the construction industry. The book is divided into a number of sections (dealing with design, tenders, extensions of time, global claims, liquidated and ascertained damages, programme, payment, variations, loss and expense, practical completion and defects and rights and remedies). The form of the book is to ask a short question and then to provide a short answer to the question and a summary of that answer. For example, the first question in the book is: what is the difference between a fitness for purpose responsibility and an obligation to exercise reasonable skill and care? The answer is then given in some three pages and use is made of illustrative case law.