Cases - Royal Brompton Hospital NHS Trust v Hammond (No. 7) (CIP)

Record details

Name

Royal Brompton Hospital NHS Trust v Hammond (No. 7) (CIP)

Date

[2001]

Citation

76 Con LR 148

Keywords

Construction claim - loss and expense claim - claim - global claim - impressionistic approach - extension of time - delay

Summary

His Honour Judge Richard Seymour QC appeared to approve the adoption of an impressionistic approach. The Judge appeared to approve the following view (at p. 176):

'... the making of assessments of whether a contractor was entitled to an extension of time ... did not depend upon any sort of scientific evaluation of any particular type of material, but simply upon impression formed on the basis of previous experience.'