ONCE WERE WARRIORS

摘要

I have a quiz for you. How much will it cost to go to court for a four day hearing to fathom this real life disputed final account? Okay, you need more information. The original contract value was £1.8m. Final account is a little less, around £1.7m. The amount paid to the claimant to date is £900,000. So the balance in the quarrel is about £800,000. Some works, says the defendant, QPR Holdings Ltd, are defective. There are 25 items being argued about. Five are under £1,000, three are between £1,000 and £5,000. Tiddlers. The quarrelling has already warmed up. The claimant, a project management company, called GSK Project Management Ltd, has gone into liquidation. The liquidator agreed to begin a court action on the account. There are construction solicitors on both sides. Statements of claim, defence and counterclaim, and replies, have all been filed in court. Barristers did all of that.