Legal twister

摘要

Fred And Joe Are Negotiating A Brickwork subcontract. They have met in the site hut on a Friday afternoon, and have agreed on the work that needs doing, a price and a programme. Everything seems fine and dandy, and they agree that Joe's . specialist brickwork company will start work on Monday morning. Fred says that he will write to Joe with confirmation of everything that has been agreed. True to his word, he sends a letter later that afternoon setting out the terms. This looks like exactly the sort of contract that is affected by the Construction Act. But when things go wrong and Joe thinks he has been paid too little and too late, he goes to his solicitor and finds that things aren't quite as simple as he had thought. The first thing the solicitor wants to know is whether the contract was subject to the act.