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Legal report: breach of duty/liability

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Architects` Journal ; 189(11) 15 March 1989, 71-73(3)Publication details: 1989Subject(s): Summary: Discusses two recent cases concerning breach of duty/ liability in the building industry. In the first case, South East Thames Regional Health Authority v Y J Lovell (London) and Others, a heating and services engineer was found by CA not to be in breach of duty of care following the collapse of a chimney-stack at Guy`s Hospital and in the second case, Richard Roberts Holdings Ltd v Douglas Smith Stimson Partnership & Others (1988) (Abstract 40096) a claim was made against architects regarding liability for defects in a effluent tank .
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Discusses two recent cases concerning breach of duty/ liability in the building industry. In the first case, South East Thames Regional Health Authority v Y J Lovell (London) and Others, a heating and services engineer was found by CA not to be in breach of duty of care following the collapse of a chimney-stack at Guy`s Hospital and in the second case, Richard Roberts Holdings Ltd v Douglas Smith Stimson Partnership & Others (1988) (Abstract 40096) a claim was made against architects regarding liability for defects in a effluent tank .