Prominent cases include:
- Henry Boot Construction v Malmaison Hotels: Relating to culpability for concurrent delays on a traditional construction contract
- Woodside Petroleum v Enserch Corporation: The successful defence of a claim for more than $350 million arising out of the collapse of an offshore gas platform under construction
- Kvaerner v Australian Gasfields Limited: Dispute over the right to enforce security in respect of damages for design errors and delays arising out of the construction of a gas processing plant and related arbitration proceedings in Singapore
- Millers Specialist Joinery v Nobles Construction: Relating to the validity of a Section 111 notice
- Carillion Construction v Farebrother & Partners: Concerning the duties of a consultant in relation to the safe removal of asbestos.
- R J T Consulting Engineers v D M Engineering: Relating to the requirements for establishing whether or not an ‘agreement in writing’ existed for the purposes of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996
- CRS v Taylor Young: Concerning the impact of joint names insurance on a construction project, and the effect of this on contribution claims between parties to the various contracts
- Henry Boot v Alstom Combined Cycles: Concerning the application of valuation rules under the ICE Contract
- McAlpine v Panatown: Concerning the prospective liability of a contractor to an employer who did not own the building. McAlpine’s claim involved more than 30 different parties
- Baxall Securities and Norbain v Sheard Walshaw Partnership and others: Concerning the responsibility of a contractor and an architect to parties using the building after the original owners
- David McLean v Albany Building: The recovery, through adjudication and High Court enforcement, of £2 million of liquidated damages, wrongly deducted by defective notices
- Construction Partnership UK Limited v Leek Developments: Relating to the meaning of ‘actual delivery’ in respect of termination notices under a JCT contract
- Reinwood Ltd v L Brown & Sons Ltd: Concerning the relationship between deducting and re-paying LADs and withholding notices
- Shepherd Homes Ltd v Encia Remediation and Green Piling TCC: The trial of an issue relating to a contractual limitation and a separate trial covering liability for defective pile design, diminution in value of the piled buildings and mitigation
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