Building Law Reports

Negligence - Duty of care - JCT Standard Form of Building Contract 1980 - Clauses 20.2, 22C. 1, 22.3 - Sub-contractor’s negligence causing loss by fire - Whether loss by fire employer’s risk

Agreement for Minor Building Works, 1980 Edition - October 1988 Revision - Conditions 6.2 and 6.3B - Sub-contractor’s negligence causing loss by fire - Whether loss by fire employer’s risk

Practice and procedure - Pleading - Amendment - Striking out - “Global claim” - Total costs claim - RSC Ord 20, r5 - RSC Ord 18, r 19 - Inherent jurisdiction

Practice and procedure - Pleading - ‘Global claim’- Total costs claim - Whether a discernible causal nexus between the breach of contract and the loss

Architect - RIBA conditions - Construction of terms of engagement - Implied terms - Duty to warn of own deficiencies - Duty to warn of other professionals’ deficiencies - Fiduciary duty