Building Law Reports

Arbitration - Whether stay available before pre-arbitration dispute resolution procedure completed - Arbitration Act 1975 section 1 Injunction - Whether injunction can be granted in respect of overseas arbitration - Arbitration Act 1950 section 12(6)(h)

Contract - Liquidated damages - Completion by sections - Other contracts - Graduated payments - Whether a penalty where minimum sum to be deducted if any part of works incomplete

Contract - Quantity surveyor’s engagement - Termination

Practice - Appeal - Appeal from official referee on questions of fact - Link between questions of fact and law - RSC Order 58 rule 4(b)

Practice - Appeal - Appeal from official referee on questions of fact - Whether findings of fact material to result - RSC Order 58 rule 4(b)

Contract - Retention - Mandatory Injunction to setup Trust Fund - JCT form with Contractor’s Design and Amendment 1: 1986, clauses 4.1.2 and 30.4.2

Contract - Construction - Meaning of “Cash discount”

Contract - Assignment - Re-structuring of companies - Asset purchase agreement - Equitable assignment - Title to sue - Law of Property Act 1925 section 136