Building Law Monthly

The House of Lords in Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc [2008] UKHL 48; [2008] 3 WLR 345 re-considered the law relating to remoteness of damage in the law of contract. The case signals a narrower approach to the recovery of damages,..

In Alan Auld Associates Ltd v Rick Pollard Associates [2008] EWCA Civ 655; [2008] BLR 419 the Court of Appeal held that the trial judge had been entitled to conclude that the claimant’s repeated failure to pay invoices amounted to a..

In The Claimants Appearing on the Register of the Corby Group Litigation v Corby Borough Council [2008] EWCA Civ 463; [2008] BLR 411 the Court of Appeal held that it remains possible to recover damages for personal injury in a public nuisance..

In Yeoman’s Row Management Ltd v Cobbe [2008] UKHL 55, [2008] 1 WLR 1752 the House of Lords held that a property developer who had entered into an oral agreement to purchase a block of flats from its owner was not entitled to claim an..