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The nature of a quantum meruit claim
In Gordon Winter Company Ltd v NH International (Caribbean) Ltd (Trinidad and Tobago) [2025] UKPC 52, the Privy Council held that the claimant was entitled to bring a claim for a contractual quantum meruit notwithstanding the fact that the claim..
Online Published Date:  29 January 2026
Termination and the giving of notice
In Providence Building Services Ltd v Hexagon Housing Association Ltd [2026] UKSC 1 the Supreme Court held, allowing an appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeal, that a contractor under the 2016 Edition of the JCT Standard Form of Design and..
Online Published Date:  29 January 2026
Expert determination and no oral modification clauses
In GSY Hospitality Ltd v Gladstone Court Developments Ltd [2025] EWHC 3231(TCC) Mr Roger ter Haar KC, sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court, held that an expert determination was not binding on the parties because the expert had departed from..
Online Published Date:  29 January 2026
Incorporation of onerous or unusual terms
One of the issues before the Court of Appeal in MS Amlin Marine NV v King Trader Ltd and Others [2025] EWCA Civ 1387; [2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 493 was the steps that must be taken by a contracting party before onerous or unusual terms will be held to..
Online Published Date:  29 January 2026
Adjudication and natural justice
In Project One London Ltd v VMA Services Ltd [2025] EWHC 3304 (TCC) Adrian Williamson KC, sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court, held that the claimant was entitled to enforce the decision of an adjudicator and he rejected submissions made on..
Online Published Date:  29 January 2026
When is a material breach "capable of remedy"?
A term is sometimes to be found in commercial contracts which entitles a party to terminate a contract in respect of a material breach where that breach has not been remedied within a particular time period. The Court of Appeal in Kulkarni v Gwent..
Online Published Date:  29 January 2026

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