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To 'Melville Dundas', or not to 'Melville Dundas'?

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D086
Mr Justice Robert Akenhead
December 2007
A paper presented to the Society of Construction Law and Technology and Construction Bar Association in London on 3rd December 2007.

What light does the MelvilleDundas case (2007), the first Housing Grants, Construction andegeneration Act case to reach the House of Lords, shed on the interactionbetween contractual payment provisions, the 1996 Act and insolvency? MrJustice Akenhead analyses how the case ar

Mr Justice Robert Akenhead

December 2007

A paper presented to the Society of Construction Law and Technology and Construction Bar Association in London on 3rd December 2007.

What light does the MelvilleDundas case (2007), the first Housing Grants, Construction andegeneration Act case to reach the House of Lords, shed on the interactionbetween contractual payment provisions, the 1996 Act and insolvency? MrJustice Akenhead analyses how the case arose, the speeches in the Lords and theimplications for the future.

Introduction - The decision in MelvilleDundas - Where to now? - Conclusions.

The author: Mr Justice obert Akenhead is a judge in theTechnology and Construction Court in London.

Text: 7pages

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