DAMN THE EXPENSE

摘要

Mr Jackson is a housebuilder. His firm is called Jackson Developments. The NHBC registers his enterprise in category Bl; that's the highest category for builders. But the NHBC brought up the big guns and sued him for bad work. "The claim on any basis," said the judge, "was exaggerated ... I find that the [legal] costs sought are grossly disproportionate to the amount in issue and unreasonable in amount." NHBC went home, tail between legs, tear in eye. Interesting to get an insight to NHBC machinery at this level.