Case in focus: An unusual judgment in a multi-party PFI fire defects dispute

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Ted Lowery looks at the recent Sheffield Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust vs Hadfield Healthcare Partnerships Ltd & Ors case

The case

Sheffield Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust vs Hadfield Healthcare Partnerships Ltd & Ors [2023] EWHC 644 (TCC)
Before Mrs Justice O’Farrell DBE
Technology and Construction Court
Judgment delivered 22 March 2023

The facts

Under a PFI project agreement dated 20 December 2004, Sheffield Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust appointed Hadfield Healthcare Partnerships to design, build and thereafter operate a new wing for the Northern General Hospital. Hadfield engaged Kajima as design and build contractor and Veolia as hard services provider for the wing during the operational period.

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