CAREFUL CONTRACTS
‘ Several liability is merely a legal term to describe a situation in which two or more persons make separate promises to another , and therefore each person is liable only for their own specified obligations ’ involved in the design or construction of the project . The use of contracts which encourage collaborative working and the increasing use of building information modeling ( BIM ) reinforce the presumption of joint and several liability .
There have been demands for the law to be reformed , for example the Association of Consulting Engineers published a report in the 2004 Professional Indemnity Insurance and Joint and Several Liability in the
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