HT-2025-000282 - [2025] EWHC 850 (TCC)
Technology and Construction Court

HT-2025-000282 - [2025] EWHC 850 (TCC)

Fecha: 09-Abr-2025

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Approved Judgment Vitsoe v Waugh

Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 850 (TCC)
Case No: HT-2025-000282
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
KING'S BENCH DIVISION

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION COURT

Royal Courts of Justice, Rolls Building

Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1NL

Date: 9 April 2025

Before :

MARTIN BOWDERY K.C. (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge)

Between :

VITSOE LIMITED

Claimant

- and -

WAUGH THISTLETON ARCHITECTS LIMITED

Defendant

William Webb KC and Thomas Saunders (instructed by Beyond Corporate Ltd) for the Claimant.

Siân Mirchandani KC and Tom Asquith (instructed by Strata Solicitors Ltd trading as Caytons) for the Defendant

Hearing dates: 21-23, 27-30 January 2025 and 24 February 2025

JUDGMENT

This judgment was handed down by the court remotely by circulation to the parties’ representatives by email and released to The National Archives. The date and time for hand-down is deemed to be 9 April 2025 at 10.30am.

MARTIN BOWDERY K.C:

The Judgment is set out in ten parts

A.

THE PARTIES

B.

THE PROJECT

C.

THE WITNESSES

D.

THE AGREED CHRONOLOGY

E.

THE EXPRESS TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES

F.

SCOPE OF DUTY

G.

THE ALLEGED BREACHES OF DUTY

H.

QUANTUM

I.

CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE

J.

CONCLUSION