British standards have never sunk so low as this

Collateral warranties - do you know exactly what's included in the lists that you use?

Or do you just copy the last one and hope?

If John Bolton's experience is anything to go by, the fine print of collateral warranties is blithely repeated from one job to the next.

Bolton, a construction solicitor with Davies Arnold Cooper, found himself checking through the details of one list, used on a series of construction jobs, and discovering that it invoked the British Standard for the manufacture of condoms. No wonder construction's re-birth is taking so long.