Provisional sums

Brewer, Geoff

Provisional sums - 2006 - Contract Journal 434(6586) 2 August 2006, 21(1) .

Considers the implications of the recent CA decision in "Midland Expressway Ltd v Carillion Construction Ltd and others" ([2006] EWCA Civ 936, unreported), where C's appeal against a decision that provisional sums contained in a contract between it and M should be deducted from the final contract price was dismissed. It is thus clear that even where a contract fails to set out the rules for expenditure of a provisional sum, it is to be understood that the provisional sum is to be omitted in calculating the final account, and that a valuation of the work actually carried out substituted for it.


MIDLAND EXPRESSWAY LTD V CARILLION CONSTRUCTION LTD AND OTHERS
ST MODWEN DEVELOPMENTS LTD V BOWMER AND KIRKLAND


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