Building Law Reports

Contract - Implied terms - Merchantable quality - Fitness for purpose - Defects - Unsuitable hardcore - Material defined in bill of quantities - JCT Standard Form, 1963 Edition

Contract - ICE Conditions of Contract, 5th Edition (revised June 1973) - No arbitration clause - Employer’s representative substituted for engineer - No general power of courts to open up, review and revise the decisions of the employer’s representative - Circumstances in which court can interfere with such decisions

Contract - Succession of parties - Statutory assignment - Order for substitution pursuant to RSC Ord 15, r7Practice - Substitution

Defective premises - Negligence - Economic loss - Limitation - Accrual of cause of action on discovery of damage

Contract - ICE Conditions, 5th Edition, clauses 53 and 63 - Whether employer’s interest in plant amounts to an equitable charge within Companies Act 1985, s395

Arbitration - Appeal on point of law - Arbitration Act 1979, sl(3)(a) - Whether leave required - Consent of all parties given before dispute arose