This month’s contract clinic question comes from a client looking to set liquidated damages for a section of a project before completion of the whole scheme. Steven Woolnough shares his advice.

Contract completion delays led to liquidated and ascertained damages being applied, but the contractor argued these were not clearly defined so weren’t enforceable. Emma Payne and Stephen McKenna explain what happened next.

The Technology and Construction Court continues to show its reluctance to depart from commercial contract terms in a recent ruling on the Nine Elms development, writes Tamsin Lim.