Construction focus: When a collateral warranty is a construction contract

Forsters LLP | Property Law Journal | September 2022 #400
Daniel Burr and Sophie Togwell consider the outcome of a recent Court of Appeal decision It was held that, for a warranty to be a construction contract, it must be an agreement for the carrying out of construction operations, meaning it must relate to the performance of works rather than just the quality of work. …

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John Starr | Property Law Journal | November 2013 #316
John Starr looks at a case where the 1996 Construction Act was held to apply to a collateral warranty, and an unusual case involving arguments as to the financial stability of a winning party to an adjudication ‘The court decided that the collateral warranty was indeed a construction contract on the basis that that its …

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