"Do I have a contract?"

23 April 2009

Ted Lowery, in a paper prepared for the 15th Fenwick Elliott Construction Law Update Seminar held at Simpsons in the Strand, London and in response to the proposed changes to the Housing Grants Act about oral contracts, explains the fundamental requirements of a building contract. In doing so, he focuses on the typical situation parties find themselves in when it is not clear whether some or all the terms have been agreed or even whether a contract has actually been formed.