Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts
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CHAPTER 5
Standard form provisions for money
Introduction
5–001 The words “direct loss and/or expense” should not afford any real difficulty. The distinction between direct and indirect would appear to be largely the distinction which is always to be made in regard to damages in tort, or contract. It must be shown that the act or acts complained of were, in the understanding of an ordinary person, the cause of the loss, or expense: not merely a contributory, or “but for” cause, but the predominant, or “direct” cause, unaffected by any intervening cause.1