EXPENSIVE ADVICE

摘要

From time to time here in chambers we are asked to advise friends about problems with their builders, writes Kim Franklin.This is always a tricky one to deal with. We have been doing this job for long enough now to know that only the deranged, badly advised or fabulously wealthy involve themselves in building disputes if they can possibly avoid it. For corporate concerns, litigation — and its alternatives - is a commercial tool operated with commercial objectives.