The House referred to a claim for damages falling into ‘some legal black hole.’
Judges:
Lord Keith of Kinkel
Citations:
1982 SLT 533
Jurisdiction:
Scotland
Cited by:
Cited – Alfred Mcalpine Construction Limited v Panatown Limited HL 17-Feb-2000
A main contractor who was building not on his own land, would only be free to claim damages from a sub-contractor for defects in the building where the actual owner of the land would not also have had a remedy. Here, the land owner was able to sue . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Damages
Updated: 06 May 2022; Ref: scu.218908
