Raby House in Cheshire used to be a country house hotel. Eric Baskind now owns it. He decided to do a makeover. It developed into a very heated row with his builder.rnIt was unfortunate indeed that a lightning strike destroyed Mr Baskind's computer. But for that, it would have been the work of an instant to print out the written withholding of money notices he had sent to builder Speymill Contracts. What about the project files? Well, he accused two of Speymill's chaps of stealing them and, oh dear, the copies of the withholding notices were also among the stolen material. Under these circumstances, the adjudication about what money could be withheld had an interesting twist.
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