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Mayer Brown | United Kingdom | 27 Sep 2023
Legal developments in construction law: September 2023- Defective building design (with no immediate physical damage) and the duty of care is?
Developers of a number of high-rise buildings, some of which were constructed in 2005, discovered what were said to be serious structural defects in…
Mayer Brown | United Kingdom | 27 Sep 2023
Legal developments in construction law: September 2023- Ingredients of a claim for contribution?
In URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd, the Court of Appeal also had to consider the necessary ingredients of a claim for contribution under the…
Mayer Brown | United Kingdom | 27 Sep 2023
Legal developments in construction law: September 2023- Cause of action for defective building design (with no immediate physical damage) begins when?
When does a cause of action in tort against designers of a defective building accrue, in circumstances where the defect caused no immediate physical…
Mayer Brown | United Kingdom | 27 Sep 2023
Legal developments in construction law: September 2023- The Defective Premises Act duty is owed to?
In URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd, the Court of Appeal had to deal with, and dismissed, an appeal in respect of the first instance judge's…
RPC | United Kingdom | 14 Sep 2023
Court of Appeal finds in favour of FSCS on scope of the Policyholder Protection Rules (PRR)
Tamsin Hyland explores the recent judgment of R (On the application of Manchikalapati v FSCS [2003] EWCA Civ 1006 and its relevance to insurance…
Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP | United Kingdom | 25 Aug 2023
Warranties and Indemnities
Warranties and indemnities are contractual clauses that provide protection to buyers. In a typical sale and purchase agreement, it is the buyer who…
Mayer Brown | United Kingdom | 3 Aug 2023
Trustee and officeholder approval applications: res judicata and protection from future claims
Trustees and officeholders (such as administrators, receivers and liquidators) can ask the Court to approve steps that they propose to take in the…
Burges Salmon LLP | United Kingdom | 13 Jul 2023
Managing the costs of Subsidy Control Act appeals
The Court of Appeal has set out principles that will influence the scope, costs and cost risk of subsidy decision appeals under the Subsidy Control…
RPC | United Kingdom | 25 Apr 2023
Limitation and fraud: when does the clock start running after multiple lies are told?
The Court of Appeal recently provided guidance on when time starts running for the purposes of limitation under the Limitation Act 1980, and also clarified the limitation in respect of a fraud involving multiple lies. It will be interesting to see how future decisions interpret frauds involving multiple lies for the purpose of assessing limitation.
Beale & Co | United Kingdom | 19 Apr 2023
Lee Witcomb v J. Keith Park Solicitors [2023] EWCA Civ 326 Section 14A Limitation Act 1980 - what knowledge is required?
The introduction of s14A Limitation Act 1980 (‘s14A’) was prompted by obvious injustice; claims where the claimant could only have discovered the…
