The Court of Appeal said that a letter must provide clear evidence of the contracting party’s identity if it is to be used to evidence a contract in writing as required by section 107(2)(c) of the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act. Equally, there must be clear evidence that all parties concerned were in agreement if a party claims that an adjudicator has been asked to make a binding decision as to his jurisdiction. The Court of Appeal followed the decision of His Honour Judge Gillilland QC in Nordot v Siemens. Click to download PDF
Letters of Intent: Avoiding those Bear Traps1
In March 2017’s Insight, we review the key case law on letters of intent of the past few years and seek to highlight some of the lessons that can be learned from them.