Residential Construction Law: The UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand
'This new edition tells you all you need to know about how construction defects in homes occur, how they might be prevented, and how they might be cured.'
Her Honour Frances Kirkham CBE, Atkin Chambers

The first edition of Residential Construction Law in 2021 offered the only systematic and analytical overview of the legal framework for residential construction. Since then, there have been significant legislative and caselaw developments across the UK, Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and Ireland. In this second edition, the authors and their team of specialist contributors have completely revised the content, taking these changes into account.

This new edition refers to more than 350 new cases, along with ground-breaking reforms like the UK's Building Safety Act 2022 and lessons from the September 2024 Phase 2 report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. The book also anticipates planned reforms, including sweeping changes in several Australian states.
The revised edition retains the book's highly accessible structure and readability, making it an indispensable guide for lawyers, industry professionals and homeowners seeking to come to grips with the principles of residential construction law. It also provides an essential starting point for students and practitioners needing to understand the detail of this specialist area. It provides clear statements of the relevant law, explaining – aided by case studies, diagrams, text tables and a glossary – the law's intended policy outcomes and techniques. It also provides a critical view of areas where those goals have not been attained, requiring further reform.

Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsbury.pub/residential-construction-law

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Residential Construction Law: The UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand
'This new edition tells you all you need to know about how construction defects in homes occur, how they might be prevented, and how they might be cured.'
Her Honour Frances Kirkham CBE, Atkin Chambers

The first edition of Residential Construction Law in 2021 offered the only systematic and analytical overview of the legal framework for residential construction. Since then, there have been significant legislative and caselaw developments across the UK, Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and Ireland. In this second edition, the authors and their team of specialist contributors have completely revised the content, taking these changes into account.

This new edition refers to more than 350 new cases, along with ground-breaking reforms like the UK's Building Safety Act 2022 and lessons from the September 2024 Phase 2 report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. The book also anticipates planned reforms, including sweeping changes in several Australian states.
The revised edition retains the book's highly accessible structure and readability, making it an indispensable guide for lawyers, industry professionals and homeowners seeking to come to grips with the principles of residential construction law. It also provides an essential starting point for students and practitioners needing to understand the detail of this specialist area. It provides clear statements of the relevant law, explaining – aided by case studies, diagrams, text tables and a glossary – the law's intended policy outcomes and techniques. It also provides a critical view of areas where those goals have not been attained, requiring further reform.

Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsbury.pub/residential-construction-law

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'This new edition tells you all you need to know about how construction defects in homes occur, how they might be prevented, and how they might be cured.'
Her Honour Frances Kirkham CBE, Atkin Chambers

The first edition of Residential Construction Law in 2021 offered the only systematic and analytical overview of the legal framework for residential construction. Since then, there have been significant legislative and caselaw developments across the UK, Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and Ireland. In this second edition, the authors and their team of specialist contributors have completely revised the content, taking these changes into account.

This new edition refers to more than 350 new cases, along with ground-breaking reforms like the UK's Building Safety Act 2022 and lessons from the September 2024 Phase 2 report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. The book also anticipates planned reforms, including sweeping changes in several Australian states.
The revised edition retains the book's highly accessible structure and readability, making it an indispensable guide for lawyers, industry professionals and homeowners seeking to come to grips with the principles of residential construction law. It also provides an essential starting point for students and practitioners needing to understand the detail of this specialist area. It provides clear statements of the relevant law, explaining – aided by case studies, diagrams, text tables and a glossary – the law's intended policy outcomes and techniques. It also provides a critical view of areas where those goals have not been attained, requiring further reform.

Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsbury.pub/residential-construction-law


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781509975884
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/18/2025
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 824
Product dimensions: 6.65(w) x 9.61(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Philip Britton is former Visiting Professor and Director of the Centre of Construction Law, King's College London, UK.

Matthew Bell is Associate Professor and Co-Director of Studies for Construction Law at Melbourne Law School, Australia. In 2021, he won first prize in the annual Hudson essay competition run by the Society of Construction Law (UK and Ireland) for his work Contract Damages for Defective Construction Work: An Unsolvable Puzzle?.

Deirdre NÍ Fhloinn is a barrister practising at the Bar of Ireland and a graduate of the Centre for Construction Law at King's College London. She holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin on the subject of liability for residential construction defects.

Kim Vernau is Chair of Women's Pioneer Housing and Non-Executive Director of the Housing Association Property Mutual. She is the former CEO of BLP Insurance, a provider of housing warranty insurance and commercial development latent defects insurance.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Residential Construction: Defects in Context
3. Regulation of Residential Construction
4. Contract Law in Residential Construction
5. Contract and Beyond: Other Rights of Action
6. Consumer Protection: Other Forms
7. Home Owners and Homebuyers: Insurance
8. Inspections in Residential Construction
9. Pathways to Redress
10. Time Limits for Redress
11. Multi-Unit Developments: Blocks of Flats
12. Conclusions

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