Mark Cannon QC

Construction Professionals

Extensive experience of acting for claimants and defendants including claims in relation to design, contract administration, ground investigations and foundations (including claims relating to foundation/pile design and contaminated land).  Mark has been involved in cases concerning a wide range of buildings and structures, including hospitals, nuclear power stations and theatres.

Cases include:

• Acting for a local authority in an arbitration against the professional firm which had managed and designed the construction of a children’s centre.
• Defending a firm of project managers against a multi-million pound claim concerning the development of a country house hotel (recent issues as to s.14A of the Limitation Act 1980 and amendment): MAC Hotels Ltd v. Rider Levett Bucknall UK Ltd [2010] EWHC 767 (TCC).
• Defending a firm of civil engineers against a claim for allegedly negligent design of a container unloading pavement.
• Defending a specialist geotechnical subcontractor in relation to settlement of a large warehouse.
• Acting for the claimant NHS trust in Royal Brompton Hospital v. Hammond litigation against project managers, architects and M&E engineers: reported decisions include [2002] UKHL 14; [2002] 1 WLR 1397 (HL) on the Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978.
• Acting for consulting engineers in the defence of a claim arising out of a major tunneling project.
• Try Build Ltd v. Invicta Leisure Tennis Ltd (1997) 71 Con LR 141: Design duties of engineers (TCC).
• Chesham Properties v. Bucknall Austin (1996) 82 BLR 92: acting for defendant architects in claim arising out of a residential development in Belgravia: issues as to limitation and scope of duty.