Examples of Work Undertaken

• Real Property Use and Development
• Construction and Engineering
• Defective Buildings, Dwellings and Products
• Commercial and Contractual Disputes
• Professional Liability
• Insolvency

 

Further Work in the field of Defective Buildings and Products

• Advising drafting and representing building owner in defective floor, wall and roof works under 1998 Design and Build contract.
• Advising and representing a main contractor concerning defects in a surface water outfall in the North Sea.
• Advising and representing European Industrial ⁄ Transportation business in substantial r.c. floor slab and sub floor geotechnical dispute in Greater Manchester.
• Advising and representing clients in Defective works claims involving breach of the Building Regulations and Approved Documents.
• Representing many property owners in relation to subsidence caused by tunneling by a utilities company and a case involving damages for breach of an insurance contract brought by apartment owners whose properties were sinking. Advised in many cases concerning construction Insurance claims including the interpretation of the Insurance provisions of standard forms of construction contracts and subcontracts.
• Claims involving NHBC insurance schemes and claims against those Insurers.
• Advising, drafting proceedings, and representing many householders in claims against national house builders concerning the quality of their dwellings including e.g. sound proofing and subsidence.
• Advising, drafting proceedings and representing clients in air handling equipment dispute.
• Advising a local authority in relation to defective works at a leading shopping centre in Newcastle upon Tyne.
• Advising and drafting proceedings and representing Employers concerning properties built to the wrong size and at the wrong datum and in relation to defects.
• Assisting leading counsel advise in relation to a substantial tramways infrastructure contract in Hong Kong.
• Advising a contractor in a contractual claim and potential adjudication, where the Proper law of the contract was English law and the works were in the Republic of Ireland.
• Advising in "due diligence" concerning the sale of a substantial Dutch construction and civil engineering contractor owned by a UK Plc, concerning substantial civil engineering projects and their viability in The Netherlands and in Hong Kong.