Building Law Reports

Contract - Civil Engineering - Interrelationship of ICE Conditions, 5th edition, clauses 8(2) and (12) - Whether transient conditions can be unforeseeable physical conditions

Duty of care of adjoining owner - Independent contractor - Delegation of duty of care to independent contractor - Exceptions to principle that owner not responsible for tort by independent contractor - Work to roof within exceptions to principle

Building Regulations - Breach - Whether offence “continuing” one or whether statutory six month time limit to prefer information applied - When time begins to run - Building Act 1984 section 35, Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, section 127

Practice - Security for costs - Counterclaim raising same matters as claim - Stay not just - Observations on discretion - Companies Act, 1985 sec 726

Contract - Landscape works - Certificates disputed - Whether employer indebted to contractor

Defective Premises Act 1972, sec 1(1) - Meaning - Whether necessary to prove that the defect resulted in unfitness for habitation

Contract - JCT Intermediate Form 1984, (amended 1986) clauses 1.1, 1.10, 4.7, 6.3C and 6.8 - Extent and effect of final certificate on claims for defects and stolen goods - Responsibility for theft of goods on site

Architect - Remuneration-fee based on “estimated contract figure” - meaning