Building Liability Orders: A New Route to Recovery

Building Liability Orders are one of the most significant and potentially far-reaching routes to recovery introduced by the Building Safety Act 2022. BLOs are designed to prevent developers and corporate groups from avoiding responsibility for building safety defects through complex corporate structures or special purpose vehicles, adopting a ‘polluter pays’ approach to recovery. BLOs give the High Court a powerful mechanism to extend liability to associated companies where it is just and equitable to do so.

In the podcast we discuss:

• The case law in this area;
• What constitutes a "relevant liability";
• The meaning of "associated companies";
• The statutory "just and equitable" test. 

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