A letter of intent is a contract to start a construction project in the form of a letter. It may also confirm the sender’s intention to award the contract for the whole project to the recipient – the contractor. The purpose of a letter of intent is two-fold: (1) to
According to most professional bodies, you should ‘just say no’ when offered a letter of intent. However, the court recently said that it was not negligent to start a project under a letter of intent. So what advice is there on using letters of intent? One case (Cunningham v Collett)
According to Tony Bingham, the case of West v Finlay [2013], provides “a superb set of guidance notes for every architect.” Despite the case’s length (nearly 400 paragraphs) he recommended in his column that every architect should “go chapter and verse through this case to learn the lessons.” To save
In 2013 the University of Salford hosted an event (organised by the Constructing Excellence Manchester Best Practice Club) at which over 100 people heards about the Pitfalls of NEC3. What struck me was that many of the knotty problems associated with NEC3 apply to any form contract. What you should
Can you amend a bonded (or guaranteed) contract without the beneficiary losing its rights to claim under the associated bond? This was the decision of the Court of Appeal in Hackney Empire v Aviva which has received more coverage than most bond cases. Is it because the case decided a