2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Brief History of Construction Contracts and Case Law
Authors: BSc (Hons), FCIOB, ACIArb Reg Thomas, FCIArb, Barrister Mark Wright
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Log inModern contracts are used in a commercial environment which has encouraged the development of claims for a number of years. Nevertheless, some of the conditions of contract used today are based on documents that were drawn up in the nineteenth century, and much of the construction law that is relied upon in the courts and in arbitration has been made as a result of cases that took place in the Industrial Revolution.