This seminar explained some fundamental legal principles underpinning construction projects.
The seminar examined:
- whether there are any legal requirements at all to have a formal building contract in place
- the difference between the legal concepts of “Contract” and “Tort” and how this affects the way development projects need to be arranged
- if things go wrong what is needed for “damages” to be successfully recovered
- how the rights and requirements of “Third Parties” heavily influence what developers can do
- how these principles apply in practice using the current cladding crisis as an example
- what are the effects on these principles of the new Building Safety Act 2022
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