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Construction, Public Bodies and Liability in Negligence: Fair, Just and Reasonable?

Philip Britton
May 2001
A paper based on the second prize winning entry in the Millennium Hudson Prize Competition, presented to the Society of Construction Law in London on 1st May 2001.

The author considers what remedies are available against public bodies if in exercising their statutory powers affecting construction they cause damage, injury or loss.

Panatown v McAlpine

Philip Eyre
May 2001
A paper based on the first prize winning entry in the Millennium Hudson
Prize Competition, presented to the Society of Construction Law in London
on 1st May 2001.

The author looks at the extent to which the House of Lords’ decision
in this case clarified and developed the law relating to third party loss
in the context of contemporary commercial practice in the construction
industry.

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