Tomas Kennedy-Grant, book reviews

The second edition of Kennedy-Grant on Construction Law (LexisNexis, Wellington) was published in April 2012. In addition Tómas has written A guide to the Construction Contracts Act (2^nd ed, Rawlinsons Media Ltd, Auckland, 2009) (co-authored with Geoff Bayley) and contributed a chapter on International Arbitrations to Green & Hunt on Arbitration Law & Practice.

Kennedy-Grant on Construction Law Published by LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN 9780408717861 Copies may be ordered by clicking here.
Extracts from the foreword by His Honour Humphrey LLoyd QC: It gives me great pleasure to write a foreword to this, the second edition of Tómas Kennedy-Grant’s “Construction Law”…Within this work we now have what most people would require for construction - from acquisition of the site onwards to completion - but stopping short of those areas of construction law which are related to the actual occupancy of the work or building…There is a general consideration of the basic principles of contract and tort. The latter is not confined to being an adjunct to a discussion of contract law and of contracts but has a place in its own right, notably in a most interesting chapter (23) which deals with the impact of the tort of negligence on construction law…However for many the meat of the book will be in its treatment of …contracts for professional services (Chapter 9), the primary construction contracts (Chapters 10 to 20), sub-contracts (Chapter 21) or supply contracts (Chapter 22)…[its] discussion of New Zealand contracts and decisions on situations in New Zealand is of general relevance to the common law world, as are the numerous and most helpful cross-references provided by Tómas Kennedy-Grant to authorities in Australia, Canada, England and Wales and Singapore…Thus for a student of comparative law this work will be as essential as it must be to any practitioner in New Zealand or anybody likely to be doing business in New Zealand in the construction industry. I commend it most warmly. Extracts from the foreword to, and some of the reviews of, the first edition (1999) 1, Foreword by Professor John Uff, QC, FEng Keating Chambers, London “Above all, however, his work exhibits a high degree of scholarship in the melding together of the law from different sources, of the law with the standard forms of contract, and of the law with practice in the construction industry.… I warmly welcome this new work and look forward to its development as a major text on the international circuit.”

2, Review by John Dorter of Sydney in “Building and Construction Law” June 1999
“Encyclopedic is the magnum opus.“

3, Review by RH Christie, QC in “De Rebus”, the newsletter of the South African Law Society June 2000
“Construction law practitioners in South Africa have known for many years that they cannot afford to be parochial but must keep up with developments overseas, so Hudson or Keating is likely to be on their bookshelf. The purpose of this review is to suggest that Kennedy-Grant should be there too.… I have acquired the habit of going first to Kennedy-Grant when working on a construction law problem and it is a habit that will stick.”

4, Review by Francis Price, QC and Paul Stocco in the Canadian “Construction Law Reports” December 2000
“Construction Law in New Zealand is a misnomer! This widely-researched book will be of assistance to those involved in the construction industry around the Commonwealth.”

5, Review by James Davison in “Arbitration” the journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, August 2001
… this book is a tour de force

A guide to the Construction Contracts Act

Published by Rawlinsons Media Ltd, Auckland, ISBN 0473088142

Copies may be ordered by clicking here.




International Arbitrations A chapter in Green & Hunt on the Law and Practice of Arbitration (Brookers Ltd, Wellington 2007) Copies may be ordered by clicking here.

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