Professional negligence Surveyor
Surveyor – Advice – Duty of care – Claimants wishing to purchase converted office premises in historic building – Claimants engaging defendant firm of surveyors to carry out survey of…
Practice and procedure Service of documents
Claim form – Service – Extension of time – Defendants employing claimant to carry out works under building contract – Dispute arising over allegedly defective works – Claimant sending photocopy…
Building contract Breach of contract
Breach of contract – Issue of proceedings – Time limit – Claimant company acquiring land for development – Claimant instructing defendant adviser to apply for planning permission – Planning application…
Landlord and tenant, Breach of covenant
Landlord and tenant – Dilapidations – Damages – Tenant of commercial premises breaching repairing covenants in leases dating from 1970s – Premises delivered up in poor state of repair at…
Pleadings – Particulars of claim – Service – Claimant developer seeking damages in relation to residential development – Claimant serving particulars of claim out of time and seeking extension of…
Case management, Pleadings
Adjudication Building contract
Adjudication – Award – Limitation of action – Dispute arising between parties to building in respect of asbestos survey – Arbitrator making award in favour of defendant in lesser sum…