TCC Contract – Project Management – Role of Quantity Surveyor acting as Project Manager – Duty to warn clients of fire hazards – Causation – Contributory Negligence – Test whether defendants are Partnership or Limited Company – role of experts in relation to evidence of Project Management
Judges:
John Toulmin CMG QC
Citations:
[2001] 76 Con LR 1, [2000] EWHC Technology 106
Links:
Statutes:
Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945
Citing:
Approved – Kerry v Carter CA 1969
The court considered the apportionment of responsibility under the 1945 Act.
Lord Denning MR said: ‘We have been referred to cases on this subject, particularly the recent case of Brown v Thompson [1968] 1 WLR 1003. Since that case it seems to . .
Cited by:
Cited – Jackson v Murray and Another SC 18-Feb-2015
Child not entirely free of responsibility
The claimant child, left a school bus and stepped out from behind it into the path of the respondent’s car. She appealed against a finding of 70% contributory negligence.
Held: Her appeal succeeded (Majority, Lord Hodge and Lord Wilson . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Negligence, Construction
Updated: 13 June 2022; Ref: scu.201811
