Building Contract Casebook

M.P. Furmston TD, MA, BCL, LLM, Bencher of Gray's Inn, was Professor of Law at the University of Bristol from 1978-98. He is now Emeritus Professor and senior research fellow. He is well known as the editor of Cheshire, Fifoot and Furmston on Contract and his other books include Cases and Materials on Contract with Hugh Beale and William Bishop. He is the editor of Construction Law Reports. Vincent Powell-Smith LLM, DLitt, FCIArb was a leading authority on building contracts and a practicing arbitrator. He was a former Council member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and, for some years, Professor of Law at the University of Malaysia and the International Islamic University, Malaysia. He was originally Joint Editor of Construction Law Reports.

Preface. Part I - Formation of the contract: Letters of intent, Costs of tendering, Tenders and estimates, Incorporation of documents, Acceptance of the tender;. Part II - Performance of the contract: The contractor's obligations, The employer's obligations, Ownership and vesting of materials, Acceptance and defects, Approval and certificates, Variations, Prolongation and disruption claims, Liquidated damages and extensions of time;. Part III - Discharge of the contract: Release, Frustration, Illegality, Forfeiture clauses, repudiation and determination, Limitation;. Part IV - Sub-contracts and sub-contractors: Assignment and sub-letting, Domestic sub-contractors, Nominated sub-contractors. Part V - Building Contracts and the Law of Tort. Table of Cases. Index