Construction Contracts: Law and Management

by Will Hughes (Author), J. R. Murdoch (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.59

  This text covers the law governing construction contracts, and the management and administration of those contracts. Although the legal principles involved are an aspect of the general law of the contract, the practical and commercial complexities of the construction industry have increasingly made it a specialist area. If lawyers need a greater appreciation of the practical issues arising in constructin cases, there is no doubt that construction professionals need to be better informed about the relevant principles of law. This book, although addressed primarily to the latter group, should be of great assitance to both. Those who already have a basic understanding of the principles of contract and tort should find this book useful. It takes them through the issues peculiar to construction contracts, illustrating those issues throughout by reference to a range of standard form contracts used in the industry.

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $3.25

  In this book, the authors focus on law relating to construction contracts and the administraion of those contracts. Although this branch of law is an aspect of the general law of contract, the particular complexities associated with construction and the interdependence of tort and contract make this an increasingly important specialist area. As well as the need for lawyers to become better informed about construction there is also an urgent need for construction professionals to become better informed about the law. It is this latter need which is addressed by Construction Contracts . The book is aimed at those who already have basic understanding of the principles of contract and tort and takes them through the issues which are peculiar to construction contracts - both building and civil engineering. The prinicples are applied by constant references to a full range of standard form contracts used in the industry.