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245 0 4 _aThe Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery v Duffy Construction Ltd and another
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260 _c2007
520 _a[2007] EWHC 361 (TCC), 15 February 2007. Concerned a claim brought by T against defendant contractor (D) for breach of contract and negligence with regards to water damage, and addressed the issues of when does a pipe burst and is what results automatically a flood. D was contracted to carry out hard landscaping works involved in an upgrade of the gallery, and was instructed to repair a damaged water main supplying the site. D's repairs, which involved reconnecting a pipe using a coupling and a valve, later failed and water escaped. The contract between the parties required T to insure the works against loss or damage caused by the specified perils as defined by T's insurance policy. It also required D to comply with the conditions in T's insurance policy. T contended that the damage was not caused by 'bursting or overflowing of water tanks, apparatus or pipes' or by a 'flood' for the purposes of the JCT standard form of building contract (1980 edition). "Held": two pipes joined by a coupling collectively constituted a pipe, and on the facts presented there had been a bursting for the purposes of the contract. In addition, given the large volume of water involved, the way it had entered the building and other key factors, there had been a flood for the purposes of the contract.
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650 2 4 _aTATE GALLERY TRUSTEES V DUFFY CONSTRUCTION LTD AND ANOTHER
650 2 4 _aJCT STANDARD FORM OF BUILDING CONTRACT (1980 EDITION)
651 4 _aEngland and Wales
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690 _aBUILT ENVIRONMENT-CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT-BUILDING CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/TCC/2007/361.html
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