How Devonshires Won A Fight Over Construction Defaults

By Eddie Beaver

Lawyers for a housing association doubted they would get the chance to show that the Court of Appeal had erred in a ruling. So the team at Devonshires was stunned when Britain's highest court agreed to hear an appeal. Here, members of the team tell Law360 how their confidence was vindicated.

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