Immediate Payment Obligation under Section 111 is Paramount

The important recent decision of the TCC in Bexheat Limited -v- Essex Services Group Limited [2022] serves to clarify further the paramountcy of the immediate payment obligation under s.111 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (the “Act”). […]

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Court of Appeal finds that Limitation of Liability Clause does not Exclude a Claim for Wasted Expenditure

In Soteria Insurance Ltd v IBM United Kingdom Ltd [2022], the Court of Appeal overturned a High Court decision by finding that the words “loss of profit, revenue, savings (including anticipated savings)” in a limitation of liability clause did not […]

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Government ditches the role of Building Safety Manager in latest shake-up of the Building Safety Bill

In a further change to the Building Safety Bill put forward following the Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017, the Government has now scrapped the requirement to appoint a Building Safety Manager during the occupation phase of a construction project. Background […]

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