Silver Shemmings Ash seminar - Practical Completion: A Game Changing Case

Ryland Ash looks at the implications for the construction industry following the decisions in the High Court and then the Court of Appeal in Mears Ltd v Costplan Services (South East) Ltd & Others This is the first time in 50 years that the meaning of practical completion had been considered by the Court of Appeal and goes to the heart of the definition of a concept that is easier to recognise than to define, but the test in English law has now been helpfully clarified