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Can't help with the solicitor but be warned many unscrupulous builders will be more than willing to go down the phoenix route if faced with a lawyered up client and they know they have no case.
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Just remembered this. Architects have to make sure there is a written contract for the construction work. For domestic work this is likely to be one from JCT (homeowner, minor works or intermediate). The standard contracts all have a section in them about dispute resolution and adjudication. Is the architect the contract administrator?
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@Velocio
Anyone have a recommended London solicitor for pursuing a claim against a builder?
This is for a colleague who has found himself in a pickle: house extension / conversion, an architect, a builder who would like to weedle out of remaining commitments.
In his words "our builder is trying to steal himself out of the building contract (that he delayed delivering for the past eight months). And in order to be on the "good" side, is making massive / inflated claims for excess-spend / client-caused delays. Now while our architect can refute this well enough, a legal threat is a legal threat".
So he's looking for a bulldog of a lawyer to get the builder to complete and make good the work started.