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EJW Builders Limited v Marshall & Otrs

[2025] EWHC 2898 (Ch)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of England and Wales (Chancery Division, Bristol)
Year2025
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

Whether parties formed a partnership or contractual joint venture, as opposed to operating under a building contract, depends on objective evidence of an agreement to share profits and carry on business in common, and where a JCT building contract governs the works no profit-sharing partnership will be implied.

Area of Law

commercial

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