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The long-awaited decision in this case was handed down by the Supreme Court on 15 March 2017. Unfortunately, it does not provide any of us with the guidance that we had so hoped for and indeed the Supreme Court identify in their judgement “the unsatisfactory state of the present law”. So has this case really been the landmark that it was heralded to be?

Podcast from Caroline Benfield and Elizabeth Taylor on the Corporate Insolvency & Governance Bill 2020.

The Court of Appeal’s judgment in Robinson -v- P E Jones Contractors Limited is likely to become a landmark ruling, not only on the subject of concurrent liability in contract and the tort of negligence but also on the wide issue of the liability of builders in the tort of negligence for building defects.

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