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Draft clauses with a great deal of care

By: Series: Construction News ; (6721) 21 June 2001, 12(1)Publication details: 2001Subject(s): Summary: Warns that exemption clauses, which relieve one of the parties of any liability should certain events occur, need to be written carefully if they are to be effective, and that if it is intended that a party should be protected from the consequences of its own negligence this should be explicit in the clause. Case law.

Warns that exemption clauses, which relieve one of the parties of any liability should certain events occur, need to be written carefully if they are to be effective, and that if it is intended that a party should be protected from the consequences of its own negligence this should be explicit in the clause. Case law.