Van Elle Ltd v Keynvor Morlift Ltd

Subject Matter

BUILDING — Contract — Adjudication — Contract for installation of mooring and berthing piles on bed of tidal river beyond low-water line and Ordnance Survey boundaries — Dispute arising under contract referred for adjudication — Whether contract relating to carrying out of “construction operations in England” so as to confer jurisdiction on adjudicator — Whether works forming part of “the land” — Whether works “in England” — Interpretation Act 1978 (c 30), Sch 1 — Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (c 53), ss 104(6), 105(1) — Territorial Sea (Baselines) Order 2014 (SI 2014/1353), Sch 1, art 9

[2023] EWHC 3137 (TCC); [2024] 1 WLR 2807; [2023] WLR(D) 526, KBD

Legislation Considered

Statutes

Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (c 53), ss 104(6), 105(1)

Interpretation Act 1978 (c 30), Sch 1

Statutory Instruments

Territorial Sea (Baselines) Order 2014 (SI 2014/1353 ), Sch 1, art 9

Cases Cited

Cases cited in: Van Elle Ltd v Keynvor Morlift Ltd [2023] EWHC 3137 (TCC); [2024] 1 WLR 2807; [2023] WLR(D) 526, KBD

Amec Group Ltd v Thames Water Utilities Ltd [2010] EWHC 419 (TCC), TCC

Argyll and Bute District Council v Secretary of State for Scotland 1976 SC 248, Ct of Sess

C Spencer Ltd v MW High Tech Projects UK Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 331; [2020] 1 WLR 3426; [2020] WLR(D) 139, CA

Dawnus Construction Holdings Ltd v Marsh Life Ltd [2017] EWHC 1066 (TCC), QBD

Global Switch Estates 1 Ltd v Sudlows Ltd [2020] EWHC 3314 (TCC), QBD

Humphrey v Bennett [2023] EWCA Civ 1433; [2024] 1 BCLC 289, CA

Nottingham Community Housing Association Ltd v Powerminster Ltd [2000] BLR 309

Pepper v Hart [1993] AC 593; [1992] 3 WLR 1032; [1993] ICR 291; [1993] 1 All ER 42; [1992] STC 898; 65 TC 421, HL(E)

Pilon Ltd v Breyer Group plc [2010] EWHC 837 (TCC); [2011] Bus LR D42, QBD

Pinewood Technologies Asia Pacific Ltd v Pinewood Technologies plc [2023] EWHC 2506 (TCC), KBD

Post Office v Estuary Radio Ltd [1968] 2 QB 740; [1967] 1 WLR 1396; [1967] 3 All ER 679; [1967] 2 Lloyd's Rep 299, CA

RGB P&C Ltd v Victory House General Partner Ltd [2019] EWHC 1188 (TCC), QBD

Savoye v Spicers Ltd [2014] EWHC 4195 (TCC); [2015] Bus LR 242; 159 Con LR 120; [2015] BLR 151; [2015] WLR (D) 17, QBD

Staveley Industries plc v Odebrecht Oil & Gas Services Ltd (2001) 98 LSG 46

The Bolton Pharmaceutical Co 100 Ltd v Doncaster Pharmaceuticals Group Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 661; [2007] FSR 63, CA

Viridis Uk Ltd v Mulalley & Co Ltd [2014] EWHC 268 (TCC), TCC

Cases citing

Cases citing: Van Elle Ltd v Keynvor Morlift Ltd [2023] EWHC 3137 (TCC); [2024] 1 WLR 2807; [2023] WLR(D) 526, KBD

R (Parkes) v Dorset Council [2024] EWHC 1253 (Admin); [2024] 1 WLR 4337; [2024] WLR(D) 243, KBD