Anjali Shrivastava of Michael Gerard Solicitors cautions that practical completion (PC) is not the end of the contract story. Under the JCT Minor Works Building Contract with contractor’s design 2016, for example, PC is not the point at which the whole of retention automatically becomes payable.
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