05 Nov 2021
Following the uncertainty of the pandemic as well as other factors such as Brexit, congested transport routes, rises in shipping costs, labour shortages and even climate change, UK builders have been exposed to a world-wide surge in demand for essential materials. Construction companies have revived…
Commercial
05 Nov 2021
In Blu-Sky Solutions Ltd v Be Caring Ltd [2021] EWHC 2619 a mobile phone supplier was not entitled to enforce a cancellation clause in its standard terms, since it was an overly onerous term which had not been fairly and reasonably drawn to the purchaser's attention before it had signed an order…
Commercial
18 Oct 2021
Rightly or wrongly, we're all coming to terms with the normality of goods shortages, and more recently due to lack of HGV drivers arising out of Covid and compounded by Brexit. We've heard of a number of businesses which have either had to close due to these shortages or default on supply and…
Commercial
28 Sep 2021
In the recent matter of Tattersalls Limited v McMahon, the High Court examined the application of both agency law and the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) with regard to the potential liability of a company director. Background Douglas McMahon (the Defendant) was a co-founder of Bluecrest…
Commercial
27 Sep 2021
On a construction or engineering project, a collateral warranty is a contract between a person with an interest in the project (other than the client or employer) and a person who is involved in the project's design, management or construction. In the previous case of Parkwood Leisure Ltd v…
Commercial
15 Sep 2021
On Monday 5 July 2021, information relating to the Building Safety Bill was published including various supporting and explanatory documents and some draft regulations. The Bill, once passed, will introduce new and enhanced regulatory regimes for building safety in England and Wales and for construction…
Commercial
13 Sep 2021
It has been announced that UK firms will have an additional year to apply new post-Brexit product safety marking rules. While many firms have been using the new UK conformity assessed (UKCA) markings since 1 January 2021, companies had previously faced a 1 January 2022 deadline to switch from…
Commercial
24 Aug 2021
The Technology and Construction Court (TCC) have, in Eco World - Ballymore Embassy Gardens Co Ltd v Dobler UK Ltd, recently held that a liquidated damages clause was neither void nor unenforceable as a result of a contract permitting the partial take over by the employer without a mechanism for reducing…
Commercial
10 Aug 2021
Over the past fortnight, the transfer sagas of two footballers from their respective clubs to Manchester City have outlined the importance of a written contract. On the one hand, we have the completed £100 million transfer of Jack Grealish from Aston Villa to City; on the other the frustrated…
Commercial
05 Aug 2021
Drop-shipping is a form of supply chain management, whereby a secondary retailer (the "drop-shipper"), typically taking the form of an online e-commerce platform, accepts a customer's order and, rather than holding the necessary stock to fulfil such order, it relies upon the primary…
Commercial
