Manor Asset Ltd v Demolition Services Ltd [2016] EWHC 222 (TCC)

Here the court found an implied term in a building contract to allow it to comply with the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (Construction Act). The amended JCT minor works contract provided for final payment to be made 72 hours after receipt of an invoice. However the pay less notice provisions had not been amended, meaning that service of a pay less notice had to occur prior to the issue of the invoice (being 5 days before final date for payment). When the employer served a pay...