Good faith in construction contracts

From Designing Buildings Wiki 28th Nov 2019 An obligation for parties to act in ‘good faith’ is not generally implied in commercial contracts. However, both standard form construction contracts and bespoke contracts commonly include clauses that require the parties...

Study Material for Development Staff

I spent the first 15 years or so of my life in HA Development learning on the job. Then I started reading and discovered how much faster one can learn, and how very slow on-the-job learning tends to be. I quite often mention this on training courses. So I’m...

Reasonable endeavours or best endeavours?

What is the difference between signing up to a “reasonable endeavours” obligation on the contract, and promising to make “best endeavours”? This article from Estates Gazette makes it clear. To summarise, promising to use “reasonable endeavours” to do something means...