PARTNERING'S TOUGH SIDE

摘要

Typical! You wait 13 years for a court decision on PPC2000 and then two come along at once: Willmott Dixon vs Newlon Housing in March and then TSG Building Services vs South Anglia in May. These cases were met with outrage by Tony Bingham (20 May) that partnering should ever end in dispute, but as author and co-author of the PPC and TPC standard forms respectively, I knew that statistically this was bound to happen one day. Both cases dealt, in part, with the technicalities of adjudication, but the second went to what many believe is the heart of partnering contracts, namely "the spirit of trust, fairness and mutual co-operation" This decision involved the long-term version of PPC2000 (known as TPC2005).