TCC Case Law 2026
Tort & Mass Claims
4 judgments of the Technology and Construction Court in this category. Each case page carries the summary, the legal article and the knowledge check.
- 01Sutton and East Surrey Water Plc v Monarch Chemicals Limited & Anor[2026] EWHC 1260 (TCC)After a water company settled its claim over an incident at a treatment works, the court resolved who should bear it between the chemicals supplier and the haulier that delivered. Adrian Williamson KC held the haulier was not vicariously liable and owed no contribution.
- 02Essendi UK Hotels 2 Limited v London Property Company Limited[2026] EWHC 1354 (TCC)A hotel operator and its landlord fought over who must remove intolerable-risk cladding from the tower housing the Ibis London Wembley. HHJ Stephen Davies held the landlord liable to replace the cladding under the lease covenants and fire safety obligations.
- 03Mulalley & Co Limited v Sto Limited & Anor[2026] EWHC 1552 (TCC)A contractor that had refitted tower blocks with an unsafe external cladding system recovered a contribution from the system's supplier after Grenfell. Mr Justice Pepperall assessed the just and equitable contribution at 87.5 per cent and gave judgment for about 1.77 million pounds, enforced through a building liability order against the supplier's parent.
- 04Crest Nicholson Regeneration Limited & Ors v Ardmore Construction Limited (in Administration) &[2026] EWHC 789 (TCC)A developer sought building liability orders to make the associated companies of an insolvent contractor answer for fire safety defects. Mr Justice Constable held it was just and equitable that each associated company be jointly and severally liable for the sums the insolvent contractor owed under an adjudicator's decision.
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