NEC reverses the normal burden of proof for defects, placing the onus on the contractor to prove that his design was not defective. Max Wieliczko and Katherine Doran of Holman Fenwick Willan LLP ask whether NEC’s ‘reasonable skill and care’ contractors' design option is really fit for purpose.
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