Westwater’s Nick Ellis succeeds in road failure case

Westwater Advocates’ Nick Ellis represented aggregate supplier D Geddes Contractors Limited in respect of claims against it by a local government organisation for failures of an entire season’s road surface dressing throughout Tayside and a large area of dressing in Falkirk.

The case was based on various technical explanations as to why the roads failed because the aggregate supplied was allegedly defective.

After proof involving evidence from six expert witnesses, the commercial court concluded, as submitted by Mr Ellis, that the local authority roads organisation had failed to establish any of its cases.

Read the SLN summary of the case here