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Harbour View, contractor insolvency and the importance of a guarantee expiry date

One of the interesting features of the recent decision of Coulson J in Ziggurat (Claremont Place) LLP v HCC International Insurance Company Plc is the effect on a guarantee of a contractor becoming insolvent many years after a construction project has been completed. In Ziggurat, the amended ABI model form of guarantee bond had not … Continue reading Harbour View, contractor insolvency and the importance of a guarantee expiry date