Broken windows and temporary repairs.

Blue Manchester Ltd v North West Ground Rents Ltd [2019] EWHC 142 (TCC) I’m not going to go into great detail on this case, despite its various enticing complications – an iconic new Manchester building (pictured above), Carillion (the contractor on construction) going into receivership, and the idiosyncratic view of the Manchester weather of HHJ Davies, sitting as a High Court judge: “It is also because its external elevations are fully glazed, the façades being made up of glass panels which form a sleek uninterrupted wall of glass, reflecting the sunlight in which Manchester is – despite common belief outside Manchester to the contrary – frequently bathed.” Instead, I will focus on one particular point of broader application concerning temporary repairs and whether a defendant was in breach of its repairing covenant when temporary repairs had been done. The problem here was that shortly after completion, it became apparent that the…

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