Development: Dealing with defects

Helen Pickard examines the ramifications for developers and certifying architects of a recent High Court decision dealing with their liabilities to original and subsequent purchasers S&P argued that there was no warranty as their retainer was with Optima and was entered into several years prior to the claimants purchasing the flats. The recent High Court …
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Group Actions: Novel approach

Charles Gibson QC and Adam Heppinstall review the Supreme Court judgment in the atomic test veterans litigation ‘The Court of Appeal, reversing Foskett J’s judgment at first instance, had found that all nine lead claims were statute-barred under s11 (or s12, where the claim was brought on behalf of a deceased).’In what will become a …
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