ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the JCT Agreement for Minor Building Works, 1998 Edition incorporating Amendments MW1 and MW2 hereinafter referred to as JCT 98 MW. JCT 98 PWQ seeks to achieve this by prescribing those events which entitle the Contractor to an extension of time and requiring the Architect to award such an extension only where those events can be demonstrated to have caused the delay. The fact that the JCT Agreement for Minor Building Works is so regularly employed, and yet has to date given rise to a comparatively small body of case law, would appear to demonstrate that the exible and consensual approach recommended above is in evidence in practice. The Contractor is required to identify in his written notice the cause or causes of the alleged delay including, but not restricted to, those which qualify as Relevant Events.
