Jason Liu

Jason Advises

• National developers and contractors
• SME developers and contractors
• Professional design and management consultants

Experience Highlights

• Acting for a development and investment company on a claim against the management consultant for delay and costs.
• Acting for a private housing developer on a dispute and to restrain a performance bond.
• Defending a national residential developer in an adjudication claim by a regional cladding subcontractor.
• Acting for a local authority on a claim against the architect and main contractor for delay and costs.
• Advising a regional groundworks contractor on a claim for a final account payment.
• Acting for a national Asbestos contractor in defending a claim for health and safety contraventions and delays, and a recovery claim from the supply chain.
• Acting for a national house builder in defending a claim for utility delays.
• Acting for an Investment Management company in rectifying building latent defects and preparation of a recovery claim from the principal contractor and subcontractors.
• Defending an international insurer in relation to a building services contractor, resulting in a successful mediation settlement.
• Acting for an international design engineering consultancy in defending a claim of defective design from a principal contractor.
• Acting for an international developer and principal contractor against a piling subcontractor for delays, achieving a successful adjudication outcome.
• Acting for a Tier 1 national contractor in defending fire safety and cladding defects claims from housing association clients and preparing recovery claims against supply chain subcontractors.
• Acting for a national house builder in preparing a multi-million pound claim against an international material merchant supplier.

Career History

Previous Law Firms

• Solicitor, Construction & Engineering, Weightmans LLP (2024-2025)
• Paralegal, Construction & Engineering, DAC Beachcroft LLP (2022-2024)

Memberships

• Society of Construction Law
• Solicitors’ Roll, England, and Wales
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Building

Education

• BARBRI, Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE)
• Northumbria University, Graduate Diploma in Law (LLB)
• University College London, Project Management for Construction (BSc Hons)

Other

• Article in June 2024 edition of DACB Construction Newsletter on Lexology