Residential Construction Law

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5099-3923-7
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 696 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1143 g

This is the first book to offer a systematic and analytical overview of the legal framework for residential construction. In doing so, the book addresses two fundamental questions:

Prevention: What assurances can the law give buyers (and later owners and occupiers) of homes that construction work - from building of a complete home to adding an extension or replacing a shower unit - will comply with minimum standards of design, safety and build quality?
Cure: What forms of redress - from whom, and by what route - can residents expect, when, often long after completion of construction, they discover defects?

The resulting problems pose some big and difficult questions of principle and policy about standards, rights and remedies, which in turn concern justice more generally.

This book addresses these key issues in a comparative context across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is an accessible guide to the existing law for residents and construction professionals (and their legal advisers), but also charts a course to further, meaningful reforms of the legal landscape for residential construction around the world.

The book's two co-authors, Philip Britton and Matthew Bell, have taught in the field in the UK, Australia and New Zealand; both have been active in legal practice, as have the book's two specialist contributors, Deirdre Ní Fhloinn and Kim Vernau.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Britton, Philip

Bell, Matthew

Fhloinn, Deirdre Ní

Vernau, Kim

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Residential Construction: Defects in Context

3. Regulation of Residential Construction

4. Contract Law in Residential Construction

5. Beyond Contract: Other Rights of Legal Action

6. Consumer Protection: Other Forms

7. Insurance and Third-Party Warranties

8. Inspections in Residential Construction

9. Pathways to Individual Redress
10. Time Limits for Taking Action

11. Multi-Unit Developments: Blocks of Flats

12. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Britton, Philip
Philip Britton is former Visiting Professor and Director of the Centre of Construction Law, King's College London, UK.

Fhloinn, Deirdre Ní
Deirdre Ní Fhloinn is a barrister practising at the Bar of Ireland and a graduate of the Centre for Construction Law at King's College London. She holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin on the subject of liability for residential construction defects.

Vernau, Kim
Kim Vernau is Chair of Women's Pioneer Housing and Non-Executive Director of the Housing Association Property Mutual. She is the former CEO of BLP Insurance, a provider of housing warranty insurance and commercial development latent defects insurance.

Bell, Matthew
Matthew Bell is Associate Professor and Co-Director of Studies for Construction Law at Melbourne Law School, Australia. In 2021, he won first prize in the annual Hudson essay competition run by the Society of Construction Law (UK and Ireland) for his work Contract Damages for Defective Construction Work: An Unsolvable Puzzle?.

Philip Britton is former Visiting Professor and Director at the Centre of Construction Law, King's College London, UK.

Matthew Bell is Associate Professor and Co-Director of Studies for Construction Law at Melbourne Law School, Australia.
Deirdre Ní Fhloinn is a barrister practising at the Bar of Ireland.
Kim Vernau is Chair of Women's Pioneer Housing and Non-Executive Director of the Housing Association Property Mutual.