The WLR Daily case summaries
[2025] WLR(D) 148
King’s Bench Division
BDW Trading Ltd v Ardmore Construction Ltd and others
[2025] EWHC 434 (TCC)
2025 Feb 17; 27
Judge Keyser KC sitting as a High Court judge
Building— Contract— Building liability order— Defects discovered in building projects— Claimant developer intending to apply for building liability order against defendant contractor’s parent companies as “associated” bodies corporate— Developer seeking information and documents from contractor and parent companies to make or consider making application— Statute permitting information orders against bodies corporate subject to relevant liability— Meaning of “body corporate” and “relevant liability”— Whether information orders applicable to associates of body corporate— Whether information orders to be granted—
Building Safety Act 2022 (c 30), ss 130(3)(a), 131, 132(2)(3)(a)(b)