Building Law Reports

Contract - Assignment - JCT Conditions 1963 Edition, 1972 and 1975 revisions, clause 17(1) - Effect of prohibition on assignment without consent Damages - Whether assignee’s action for substantial damages for breach of contract maintainable by assignor where breach occurs after assignment and assignee pays for loss

Contract - Formation - Offer and acceptance - Whether necessary

Purported assignment by company of cause of action to former employee - Whether champertous - Whether employee a necessary party within RSC Order 15 rule 7(2) Legal Aid Act 1988, Sec. 31(1) - Whether purported assignment champertous

Contract - Meaning of “cash discount” - Deletion

Contract - Implied Terms - Nominated Sub-contractor - Delay in completion - Extensions of time - Whether sub-contractors entitled to damages for loss and expense

Practice - Application to set aside writ served outside jurisdiction - RSC Orders 11 and 12, rule 8

Contract - Valuation of Variations - ‘Similar Conditions’ - Meaning to be ascertained from contract documents only - JCT Standard Form, cl 13 Contract - Interpretation - Extrinsic evidence impermissible as aid to interpretation unless ambiguity in text