Court ruling opens floodgates for legacy defect claims

Developers can now pursue negligent designers and contractors for historic building safety failings after a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
In a major win for Barratt Developments subsidiary BDW Trading, the court dismissed an appeal by structural engineer URS and backed developers’ rights to recover costs even for defects in buildings they no longer own.
The judgment provides long-awaited clarity on how the Building Safety Act’s extended 30-year limitation period applies and will lik