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THE ‘LONGSTOP’ PROVISION IN THE BUILDING ACT 2004

One of the things that makes the law interesting is that different legal brains can come to different decisions on similar facts.
This has played out recently in two conflicting decisions of the High Court on how the longstop limitation provision in the Building Act 2004 interacts with the limitation period for claims for contribution in the Limitation Act. Which limitation period trumps the other?  An article by Frana.


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