The first consultation
You describe your situation. We listen and ask the questions needed to establish the facts.
Practice area
Construction Permits and Building Works
From the building permit to handover: construction contracts, delays, building defects, and the demolition of works carried out without a permit.
Construction is the legal operation in which the greatest number of relationships run at once: with the authority granting the permit, with the designer, with the contractor, with the neighbours and, often, with the end purchaser. Each of these can give rise to a dispute of its own.
We assist owners, developers and contractors in obtaining and, where appropriate, challenging building permits, in drafting and negotiating construction and design contracts, and in disputes concerning the execution of works.
Latent defects in buildings are a subject of constant attention within the firm, including in academic writing.
What the practice covers.
- Building permits: obtaining, extending, challenging
- Construction and design contracts; clauses on deadlines and penalties
- Handover of works and unjustified refusal to accept the works
- Latent and structural defects in buildings
- Demolition of works carried out without a permit; regularisation
How we work, in five steps.
Reviewing the documents
We examine the contracts, decisions, official records and correspondence. Any serious strategy starts from the documents.
The options
We set out what can be done, what cannot, and where the weak points of the case lie. Prospects and risks are discussed in concrete terms.
The strategy
We agree together on the course to follow and record it in the legal assistance agreement.
Representation
We represent you until the procedure is concluded and, where necessary, through to enforcement of the judgment.
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