(Source: Reed Smith LLP) Since 2011, Employer and Contractors have been living with the payment regime prescribed by the updated Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. This regime amounts to strict liability for the payer - if relevant, compliant, notices are not issued, then the payer must pay whatever sums are claimed without deduction. But what if you issue the relevant notice a month later, against the next payment application. Can you fix your mistakes? The recent judgment of the UK Technology and Construction Court, in Henia Investments v Beck Interiors [2015] EWHC 2433, looked at (amongst other things) the validity of payment applications by the Contractor and pay...
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