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Case Study: Pure economic loss re-examined
Rebecca Shorter looks at the issue of concurrent liability in the context of building defects ‘Contract and tort are different sources of obligations. The existence of a contract will not rule out the possibility of a concurrent duty of care in tort to prevent economic loss, but neither will it automatically create such a duty.’The …
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- Anns v Merton LBC [1978] AC 728
- Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd [1963] UKHL 4
- Mirant Asia-Pacific Construction (Hong Kong) Ltd v Ove Arup & Partners International Ltd [2007] EWHC 918 (TCC)
- Murphy v Brentwood District Council [1991] UKHL 2
- Nitrigin Eireann Teoranta v Inco Alloys Ltd [1992] 1 WLR 498
- Payne v John Setchell Ltd [2002] BLR 489
- Robinson v P E Jones (Contractors) Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 9
- Storey v Charles Church Developments plc [1995] 73 Con LR 1
- Tesco Stores Ltd v Costain Construction Ltd & ors [2003] EWHC 1487